Resist Quotes
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Before the advent of Hitler or Stalin, who took their power from the German and the Russian people, measures were thrust upon the free legislatures of those countries to deprive the people of the possession and use of firearms, so that they could not resist the encroachments of such diabolical and vitriolic state police organizations as the Gestapo, the Ogpu, and the Cheka.
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What resists, persists.
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There is already enough superstition in our country. No effort should be spared to resist further addition in the shape of Gandhi worship.
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Almost any dog thinks almost any human is the Great Spirit, the Primal Creator, and the Universal Force Behind the Sun and Tides. What human can resist?
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All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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Women can resist a man's love, a man's fame, a man's personal appearance, and a man's money, but they cannot resist a man's tongue when he knows how to talk to them.
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In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him.
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A man's excellence is like that of water; It benefits all things without striving; It takes to the low places shunned by men. Water is akin to Tao. . . . In all the earth nothing weaker than water, Yet in attacking the hard, nothing superior, Nothing so certain in wearing down strength: There is no way to resist it. Note then: The weak conquer the strong, The yielding outlast the aggressors.
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My slumbers--if I slumber--are not sleep, But a continuance of enduring thought, Which then I can resist not: in my heart There is a vigil, and these eyes but close To look within; and yet I live, and bear The aspect and the form of breathing men.
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In order to resist injuries and stay healthy, you have to be mobile and agile. You have to be able to have your body work for you.
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So long as man resists a situation, he will have it with him.
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For usually people resist as long as they can to dismiss the fool they harbor in their bosom, they resist to confess a major mistake or to admit a truth that makes them despair.
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I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit, I suppose it is some taste of the original apple that remains still in our mouths.
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It is not enough simply to try to resist evil or empty our lives of sin. We must also fill our lives with righteousness.
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There will never come a time when I will be able to resist my emotions.
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Only strong characters can resist the temptation of superficial analysis.
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The point is, not to resist the flow. You go up when you're supposed to go up and down when you're supposed to go down. When you're supposed to go up, find the highest tower and climb to the top. When you're supposed to go down, find the deepest well and go down to the bottom. When there's no flow, stay still. If you resist the flow, everything dries up. If everything dries up, the world is darkness.
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Resist much, obey little.
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Growth only really comes at the point of resistance, but that is the moment that we tend to stop. Because it hurts... pushing our limits, is a muscle that can be cultivated like any other - incrementally.
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If you hear how wonderful you are often enough, you begin to believe it, no matter how you try to resist it.
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All truths wait in all things, They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it.
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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.
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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
