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yielding
«We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.»
Author: Elizabeth II
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
colonies, colony, lacked, statesmanship, the colonies, The Right Time, yielding
«The USA is so enormous, and so numerous are its schools, colleges and religious seminaries, many devoted to special religious beliefs ranging from the unorthodox to the dotty, that we can hardly wonder at its yielding a more bounteous harvest of gobb»
Author: Peter B. Medawar
(Zoologist)
| About:
America and Americans,
Religion
| Keywords:
bounteous, dotty, numerous, ranging, religious beliefs, seminaries, seminary, the USA, U.S.A., unorthodox, USA, yielding
«Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone / but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.»
Author: Bette Davis
| Keywords:
cornerstone, cornerstones, pliable, structure, The Complete, The Foundation, yielding
«OPTIMISM, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong. It is held with greatest tenacity by those most accustomed to the mischance of falling into adversity, and is most acceptably expounded with the grin that apes a smile. Being a blind faith, it is inaccessible to the light of disproof --an intellectual disorder, yielding to no treatment but death. It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
acceptably, accustom, accustomed, aped, apes, aping, bad faith, Blind Faith, contagious, disorder, disproof, doctrine, Everything is Beautiful, expound, expounded, expounding, expounds, fortunately, grin, hereditary, inaccessible, including, mischance, optimism, tenacity, treatment, yielding
«You become smaller and smaller, you small people! You are fading away, you lovers of the easy life! You are being destroyed . . . your soil is too protective, too yielding.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
fading, fading away, protective, smaller, soil, yielding
«I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.»
