How shall I a habit break? As you did that habit make, As you gathered, you must lose; As you yielded, now refuse, Thread by thread the strands we twist Till they bind us neck and wrist, Thread by thread the patient hand Must untwine ere free we stan.
John Boyle O'reilly
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I've experienced several dry years where no-till soybeans substantially out-yielded conventionally planted soybeans. One year in particular was 1991, when no-till soybeans averaged over 40 bushels per acre, and conventional soybeans were about 12 bushels per acre. The difference was in the saved soil moisture.
Chuck Myers
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
We've now got about 10 Neanderthal specimens of around 40-50,000 years old that have yielded DNA that is clearly distinct from anyone alive today.
Chris Stringer
I'm not trying (to hit home runs). I promise I'm just not trying to do too much, and it's yielded some pretty good results. When I go up there and try to swing hard, if I do hit it, I'll hook it foul.
Todd Helton
Vertex's cystic fibrosis research program has yielded two innovative approaches for the treatment of this disease.
Joshua Boger
A terror attack in New Orleans . . . would have yielded exactly the same results. You wouldn't have had the wind, but you would have had the flooding, and you would have had the loss of life.
John Gannon
Tell your agent to give you a list of nearby properties that have sold recently, along with the final sum they yielded at closing. Then take that list, get in your car and drive by these homes, noting how they compare with your own. This should take no more than 30 to 60 minutes.
Robert Irwin
I served a search warrant, only to find later defense attorneys were simply given copies of the evidence I yielded.
Rev. Steve Thomason
I think both states put Republican primary politics above good public policy and yielded to White House pressure.
Bradley Campbell
It has been a long hard August with significant volatility. Twenty-one of the last 30 Septembers have yielded losses on the month. It is difficult to see that this September will buck the trend.
David Buik
Half-way 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
For the high achievers, studying gave them the pleasing, absorbing challenge o flow 40 percent of the hours they spent at it. But for low achievers, studying produced flow only 16 percent of the time; more often that not, it yielded anxiety, with the demands outreaching their abilities.
Daniel Goleman
We remain concerned with the company's longer-term positioning, given its choppy sales showing despite significant store-level investment, and its poor return on capital. The majority of its remodeled stores should have yielded their most significant same-store sales impact in 2002, and we see few tangible growth drivers ahead.
Matthew Fassler
We've been talking to multiple vendors, and evidently, our conversations with Amazon yielded some fruit, ... because they announced their own initiative on the heels of our announcement. We can now hope or expect them to be our fist vendor.
Richard Sarnoff
The trials have so far yielded excellent preliminary indications and will be followed by trials on animals with cancer.
Jeffrey Gordon
An investment in the true cost of Christmas would have yielded a better return than the stock market over the past year. However, the true cost of Christmas hedge fund has yet to be created.
Jeff Kleintop
I would say the open seats at this point haven't yielded for Democrats what they need.
Stu Rothenberg
This is probably the most important newspaper capitulation since the New York Times yielded to John F. Kennedy's call for them to not run the full story of planning for the Bay of Pigs. By withholding the country names, the Post is directly enabling the rendition, secret detention, and torture of prisoners at these locations to continue. That is a ghastly responsibility.
Peter Kornbluh
In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily.
Charles M. De Talleyrand
Our conservation efforts have definitely yielded some positive results as we have managed to control further decline in its population.
Richard Garstang
We wanted to keep him yielded. Tonight I challenged Josh Lawrence, who is a very good defender, to do that.
Tod Kowalczyk
It is not true that democracy will always safeguard freedom of conscience better than autocracy. Witness the most famous of all trials. Pilate was, from the standpoint of the Jews, certainly the representative of autocracy. Yet he tried to protect freedom. And he yielded to a democracy.
Joseph A. Schumpeter
QUILL, n. An implement of torture yielded by a goose and commonly wielded by an ass. This use of the quill is now obsolete, but its modern equivalent, the steel pen, is wielded by the same everlasting Presence.
Ambrose Bierce
Voting is fundamental in our democracy. It has yielded enormous returns.
Arlen Specter
This gave the holder an annualized return of 17.1 percent. A randomly selected subset of S&P 500 stocks held for the same period would have yielded, in general, an annualized return of approximately 8 percent.
Michael Moses
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