#yield

Meat is an inefficient way to eat. An acre of land can yield 20,000 pounds of potatoes, but that same acre would only graze enough cows to get 165 pounds of meat. ↗

— Alexandra Paul

#cows #eat #efficient way #enough #get

Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters. ↗

— Pope Paul VI

#both #change #does #essential #even

Little pains In a due hour employ'd great profit yields. ↗

— John Philips

#employ #great #hour #little #pains

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little. ↗

— Plutarch

#little #many #more #overcome #perseverance

When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield. ↗

— Quintilian

#cannot #hope #we cannot #win #yield

From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#day #dialogue #diary #finds #his

When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield. ↗

— Quintilian

#inevitable #wisest #yield

Not an old woman that buys a paper of pins, without yielding a part of the price to the banks as interest! ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

#buys #interest #old #old woman #paper

The actions we took in the aftermath of 9/11 were harsh but necessary and effective. These steps were fully sanctioned and carefully followed. The detention and interrogation of top terrorists like Abu Zubaydah, Khalid Sheikh Muhammed and Abu Faraj al-Libbi yielded breakthroughs which have kept this country safe. ↗

— Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr.

#actions #aftermath #breakthroughs #carefully #country

In recent years, we have seen the United States back away from pressuring the Castro regime, under the misguided view that placating them with an open hand would yield progress. That naivete has invited only more cruelty and oppression in return. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#back #castro #cruelty #hand #invited