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Capt. Rev. Samuel Clayton: Well, the prodigal brother. When d'you get back? I ain't seen you since the surrender. Come to think of it, I didn't see you at the surrender.
Ethan Edwards: Don't believe in surrender. I still got my saber, Reverend. Didn't turn it into no plowshare, neither.
(Frank S. Nugent (1908-1965), U.S. screenwriter, and John Ford. Capt. Rev. Samuel Clayton (Ward Bond), Ethan Edwards (John Wayne), The Searchers, when Ethan Edwards returns home to Texas several years after the end of the Civil War (1956).
Based on the novel by Alan Le—ay.)
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You don't have power if you surrender all your principles—you have office.
(Ron Todd (b. 1927), British trade unionist. Quoted in Daily Telegraph (London, June 17, 1988).)
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The elixir of life, the philosopher's stone
is yours if you surrender
sterile logic, trivial reason.
(Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), U.S. poet. "The Walls Do Not Fall.")
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Surrender is a perfectly acceptable alternative in extreme circumstances.
(Leigh Brackett (1915-1978), U.S. screenwriter, George Lucas (b. 1944), and Irvin Kershner. C3PO (Anthony Daniels), The Empire Strikes Back, suggesting he, Han Solo, and Leia surrender to the Empire after they are outnumbered (1980).)
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The awful daring of a moment's surrender
Which an age of prudence can never retract.
(T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888-1965), Anglo-American poet, critic. The Waste Land, pt. 5, "What the Thunder Said," (1922).)
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At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.
(Maya Angelou (b. 1928), U.S. author, poet. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, ch. 31 (1969).)
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A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.
(Thomas Browne (1605-1682), British physician, author. Religio Medici, pt. 1, sct. 6 (1643).)
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Frenchmen, we do not accept your surrender. You surrender only to the enemy. If you're Vichy, fight us. If you're Frenchmen, join us.
(Samuel Fuller, U.S. screenwriter. American commander (uncredited), The Big Red One, upon proffer of French surrender at invasion of North Africa (1980).)
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By directing our sentiments, passions, and reason toward the common human plight, imagination grants us the advantages of a moral existence. What we surrender of innocent love of self is exchanged for the safeties and pleasures of belonging to a larger whole. We are born dependent, but only imagination can bind our passions to other human beings.
(Louise J. Kaplan (20th century), U.S. psychologist. Adolescence, ch. 12 (1984).)
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The rule for every man is, not to depend on the education which other men have prepared for him,—not even to consent to it; but to strive to see things as they are, and to be himself as he is. Defeat lies in self-surrender.
(Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), U.S. president. Mere Literature and Other Essays, p. 45, Houghton Mifflin (1896).)
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