#resist

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What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged.


Steve Lacy


#discouraged #getting #how #i #learned

It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.


Ian Mcewan


#blueprints #duty #first #important #insurrection

Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.


Richard M. Nixon


#because #bureaucrats #change #chaos #exist

Germany expected that at the most a day or so would see Belgian resistance broken and the dash on Paris begun. It was not safe to start such a forward rush with Belgium unconquered.


Kelly Miller


#belgian #belgium #broken #dash #day

There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.


Jack Nicholson


#i #irresistible #life #makes #me

I've decided that the political context is such that the only way reform will finally come about in the Russian military is that the deterioration goes beyond the point to which these old generals can stand up there and resist it.


William Odom


#beyond #come #context #decided #deterioration

The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.


Frederick Law Olmsted


#arbitrary #arbitrary power #destroy #humane #irresistibly

Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.


Plutarch


#fate #follows #him #leads #resist

I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science.


John Polkinghorne


#assimilate #concepts #cosmology #creation #different

It's defeatist to harp on what might have been, and yet, it's hard to resist considering what might have been.


Christopher Reeve


#considering #hard #harp #might #resist