Resisting Quotes
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
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All stress comes from resisting what is.
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The task of resisting our own oppression does not relieve us of the responsibility of acknowledging our complicity in the oppression of others.
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Like many resisting oppression, Palestinian Gandhis are likely to be found in prisons after being repressed by Israeli soldiers or police or in the hospital after being brutally beaten or worse.
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To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.
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God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.
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I have spent my life resisting the desire to end it.
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There are two ways of resisting war: the legal way and the revolutionary way. The legal way involves the offer of alternatinve service not as a privilege for a few but as a right for all. The revolutionary view involves an uncompromising resistance, with a view to breaking the power of militarism in time of peace or the resources of the state in time of war.
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Resisting conformity and developing some small eccentricities are among the steps to independence and self-confidence.
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At the great iron gate of the churchyard he stopped and looked in. He looked up at the high tower spectrally resisting the wind, and he looked round at the white tombstones, like enough to the dead in their winding-sheets, and he counted the nine tolls of the clock-bell.
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.
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The great law of culture is, Let each become all that he was created capable of being; expand, if possible, to his full growth; resisting all impediments, casting off all foreign, especially all noxious adhesions, and show himself at length in his own shape and stature be these what they may.
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You are resisting, but you've come to see that tactically as well as morally, it is better to be nonviolent.If one would, didn't want to deal with the moral questions, it would just be impractical for the Negro to talk about making his struggle a violent one.
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Quiet your mind and stop judging and resisting and manipulating the natural way.
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The privilege of resisting or disobeying a particular law or order accrues only to him who gives willing and unswerving obedience to the laws laid down for him.
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...God has made provision for our holiness. Through Christ He has delivered us from sin's reign so that we now can resist sin. But the responsibility for resisting is ours. God does not do that for us. To confuse the potential for resisting (which God provided) with the responsibility for resisting (which is ours) is to court disaster in our pursuit of holiness.
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We proceed by doubt, by trial and error, by resisting the impulse to lunge after certainty.
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I never had a problem resisting somebody that I knew was going to break my heart.
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A working knowledge of the devil can be very well had from resisting him.
