Resist Quotes
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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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Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.
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There will never come a time when I will be able to resist my emotions.
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We resist Joy on this planet more than we resist war.
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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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Again and again I am brought up against it, and again and again I resist it: I don't want to believe it, even though it is almost palpable: the vast majority lack an intellectual conscience; indeed, it often seems to me that to demand such a thing is to be in the most populous cities as solitary as in the desert.
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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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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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Here one must think profoundly to the very basis and resist all sentimental weakness: life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, conquest of the strange and weak, suppression, severity, obtrusion of peculiar forms, incorporation, and at the least, putting it mildest, exploitation - but why should one for ever use precisely these words on which for ages a disparaging purpose has been stamped?
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One cannot resist the lure of Africa.
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Only strong characters can resist the temptation of superficial analysis.
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So long as man resists a situation, he will have it with him.
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All truths wait in all things, They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it.
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It struck me that our history is contained in the home we live in, that we are shaped by the ability of these simple structures to resist being defiled.
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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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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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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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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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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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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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Nothing is harder to resist than a bit of flattery.
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Resist much, obey little.
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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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A caged canary is secure; but it is not free. It is easier for free men to resist terrorism from afar than tyranny from within.
