J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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If you look upon the rule in Titus it is a rule to me. If you convince me that it is no rule I shall yield.
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If we practice the science of yoga, which is useful to the entire human community and which yields happiness both here and hereafter - if we practice it without fail, we will then attain physical, mental, and spiritual happiness, and our minds will flood towards the Self.
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For the span of my memory, this has been a city of opposing wills.
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It has amazed me that the most incongruous traits should exist in the same person and, for all that, yield a plausible harmony.
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I must yield to you, for you are irresistible.
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Yield to that strange passion which sends you madly whirling round the room.
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DEMETRIUS Relent, sweet Hermia: and, Lysander, yield Thy crazed title to my certain right. LYSANDER You have her father's love, Demetrius; Let me have Hermia's: do you marry him.
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You must forgive me, for I struggled only for you.
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One of the magnanimities of woman is to yield.
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Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
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An act of love always tends towards two things; to the good that one wills, and to the person for whom one wills it.
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Life continues, and some mornings, weary of the noise, discouraged by the prospect of the interminable work to keep after, sickened also by the madness of the world that leaps at you from the newspaper, finally convinced that I will not be equal to it and that I will disappoint everyone - all I want to do is sit down and wait for evening. This is what I feel like, and sometimes I yield to it.
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Inside that quietude there was the firmest of wills. Bill Shawn knew exactly what he wanted to do.
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I've struggled all my life to get maximum meaning in the simplest possible form.
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We are not sent into this world mainly to enjoy the loveliness therein, nor to sit us down in passive ease; no, we were sent here for action. The soul that seeks to do the will of God with a pure heart, fervently, does not yield to the lethargy of ease.
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While they go get the others, I figure out the details. The system I’ve set up is intended to "process’’ matches. It does this by moving a quantity of match sticks out of their box, and through each of the bowls in succession. The dice determine how many matches can be moved from one bowl to the next. The dice represent the capacity of each resource, each bowl; the set of bowls are my dependent events, my stages of production. Each has exactly the same capacity as the others, but its actual yield will fluctuate somewhat.
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The experience reminds me of a favorite saying: Most of the yield from research efforts comes from the coal that is mined while looking for diamonds.
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Life itself suggests a higher good than life itself can yield.
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I am an interpreter of music rather than a composer of it.
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A man who knows a thing, who is aware of a given danger, and sees the possibility of a remedy with his own eyes, has the duty and obligation, by God, not to work 'silently,' but to stand up before the whole public against the evil and for its cure.
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And yet their wills did not yield, and they struggled on.
