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Why are we going to put this yoke on corporate America's neck? This is a problem for everybody in the country.

Bruce Josten

An artist goes into that ... meditative, contemplative space and manifests ideas or visions. Yoga means to yoke, or to unite. So we're going inside that infinite part of ourselves and kind of getting in touch with that and just being in this space where someone has done that.

Rachael Nickel

There is the constant fear of suicide bombers, which is prevalent on every street. And you see a hopelessness because they are being occupied and feel they will never be removed from the yoke of Israeli occupation.

Paul Kennedy

Carrying the water just with your arms over a long ways was just too hard on you. With the yoke the weight was on your shoulders.

Bohn Musgrave

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Matthew Prior

YOKE, n. An implement, madam, to whose Latin name, _jugum_, we owe one of the most illuminating words in our language -- a word that defines the matrimonial situation with precision, point and poignancy. A thousand apologies for withholding it.

Ambrose Bierce

Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed not by a material environment brutally imposed on him, but by a conscience superior to his own, the superiority of which he feels. Because the greater, better part of his existence transcends the body, he escapes the body's yoke, but is subject to that of society.

Emile Durkheim