#yielded

If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past. ↗

— Dean Acheson

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Halfway through any work, one is often tempted to go off on a tangent. Once you have yielded, you will be tempted to yield again and again... Finally, you would only produce something hybrid. ↗

— Barbara Hepworth

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The Bio-diversity Convention has not yielded any tangible benefits to the world's poor. ↗

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

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Without any formal orders to retreat, what was left of the several organizations yielded to a general impulse to abandon the field. Officers and men became controlled by the one thought of getting as far as possible from the enemy. ↗

— Henry Villard

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Voting is fundamental in our democracy. It has yielded enormous returns. ↗

— Arlen Specter

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During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result. ↗

— Walther Bothe

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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation. ↗

— Frances Burney

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There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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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.

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My honour was not yielded, but conquered merely. ↗

— Cleopatra

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