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say yes

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say yes (third-person singular simple present says yes, present participle saying yes, simple past and past participle said yes)

To agree; to think something or someone is doing or saying what is right.

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The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes. Tony Blair

I am a practicing Catholic, but my lineage is Jewish, so if someone asks me if I'm Jewish, I say yes. Neve Campbell

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes. Eleanor Roosevelt

Unless someone truly has the power to say no, they never truly have the power to say yes. Dan Millman

The ego says, ‘I shouldn't have to suffer,' and that thought makes you suffer so much more. It is a distortion of the truth, which is always paradoxical. The truth is that you need to say yes to suffering before you can transcend it. Eckhart Tolle

When my mother gets a prompt 'Do you want to download this?' she's going to say yes. It's disingenuous for Microsoft to give you all of these tools [in Internet Explorer] with which to hang yourself, and when you do, then say it's your fault. Bruce Schneier

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