#resist

Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt. ↗

— Jack Nicklaus

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I rolled myself up into a tight ball of resistance and it was thus that I went through my school years. ↗

— Sigrid Undset

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What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

#beast #centuries #cudgel #irresistible #man

Honest discussions - even and perhaps especially on topics about which we disagree - can help us resist hypocrisy and arrogance. They can also help us live up to the basic ideals, such as liberty and justice for all, on which our country was founded. ↗

— David E. Price

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I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I'm used to. ↗

— Dennis Quaid

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The abuse of faith has to be resisted precisely. ↗

— Joseph Ratzinger

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History will eventually depict as legitimate the efforts of the Iraqi resistance to destabilise and defeat the American occupation forces and their imposed Iraqi collaborationist government. ↗

— Scott Ritter

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The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force of the world's public opinion. ↗

— Elihu Root

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Blind submission in women is considered a virtue, while submission to wrong is itself wrong, and resistance to wrong is virtue alike in women as in man. ↗

— Ernestine Rose

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I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it. ↗

— Mae West

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