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• God is our true Friend, who always gives us the counsel and comfort we need. Our danger lies in resisting Him; so it is essential that we acquire the habit of hearkening to His voice, or keeping silence within, and listening so as to lose nothing of what He says to us.

  Francois Fenelon

  True Friend, Lying, Voice

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• You can display no greater wisdom than by resisting proposals for needless legislation. It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Important, Bills, Proposal

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• The human mind has a superglue-like quality: Once a viewpoint has been plucked from the swirling chaos of beliefs and explanations, then the mind quickly solidifies that view, resisting any future modification.

  Charles Hugh Smith

  Views, Mind, Quality

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• Why Do We Procrastinate? P - postponing life R - resisting change O - overly cautious C - contemplating course of action R - reasoning and justifying A - afraid of success S - summoning up some courage T - trouble moving forward I - inability to see the outcome N - not able to trust in your abilities to make decisions A - attempting to control the situation T - time to reflect on your motives E - erodes progress

  Samuel Richardson

  Moving, Decision, Progress

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• The symbolism in any kind of dance allows for recall, reenactment, and reexperience of events for purposes of resisting, reducing, transforming, and escaping stress.

  Judith Lynne Hanna

  Stress, Escaping, Symbolism

  Judith Lynne Hanna (2006). “Dancing for Health: Conquering and Preventing Stress”, p.206, Rowman Altamira

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• Resisting a beautiful chocolate cake or a wonderful foie gras is as difficult as (the idea of) saying no to Paul Newman.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Beautiful, Cake, Ideas

  Diane Von Furstenberg, Evelyn Portrait (1976). “Diane Von Furstenberg's Book of Beauty: How to Become a More Attractive, Confident, and Sensual Woman”, Simon & Schuster

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• One cannot conquer the evil in himself by resisting it ... but by transmuting its energies into other forms. The energy that expresses itself in the form of evil is the same energy which expresses itself in the form of good; and thus the one may be transmuted into the other.

  Charles Henry Mackintosh

  Evil, Energy, May

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• The Internet is light at the end of the tunnel. I don't care if it's being used to peddle pornography, I don't care if it's being trivialized in a thousand ways. Anything can be trivialized. The important point is that it is leveling the playing field of global society. It is creating de-facto an entirely new set of political realities. None of the constipated, oligarchic structures that are resisting this were ever asked. Their greed betrayed them into investing in this in the first place without ever fully grasping what the implications of it were for their larger agenda.

  Terence McKenna

  Reality, Tunnels, Light

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• If the Fed ceases hiking, against the backdrop of still rising commodity prices, then the Australian dollar will have few reasons for resisting any topside advances.

  Craig Ferguson

  Commodity Prices, Hiking, Dollars

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• Nature always begins by resisting the artist, but he who really takes it seriously does not allow that resistance to put him off his stride; on the contrary, it is that much more of a stimulus to fight for victory.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Fighting, Artist, Victory

  Vincent van Gogh (1971). “Van Gogh's "diary"; the artist's life in his own words and art”

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• The movers and shakers on our planet, aren't the billionaires and generals, they are the incredible numbers of people around the world filled with love for neighbor and for the earth who are resisting, remaking, restoring, renewing and revitalising.

  Bill McKibben

  Numbers, People, World

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• If you look at the population of the world you have roughly 15% that will always be resisting advertising. Fifteen percent of something which has not yet been reached.

  Maurice Levy

  Population, Looks, World

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Public education is so important - resisting privatization and charterization, high-stakes testing, and defunding. It's important for New York, but it's also important for the country.

  Zephyr Teachout

  Country, New York, Important

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• So if there was a way that I knew something about my character's desires or the things that they were resisting because I was saving it for some grand epiphany moment for my readers, I just feel like that's when you can feel the machine at work in a story. That's when you can feel the writer pulling the strings of the puppet.

  Molly Antopol

  Character, Desire, Machines

  Source: therumpus.net

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• What many fail to realize is that being attached to what we think we want and don't have while resisting what is happening in the moment is the cause, not the cure, of much personal suffering and interpersonal conflict.

  Lee L Jampolsky

  Thinking, Suffering, Want

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• It's a matter of resisting what something made you feel before. And resisting that as a consumer is not easy. I know it isn't for me, and not just when I consume pop culture. When I go into a book and it feels too familiar, I don't have the energy to do it. My whole reason for reading it is to be in a fictive space that is unfamiliar to me.

  Lucy Corin

  Book, Reading, Space

  Source: therumpus.net

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• "Someone": I understood that this was a character who in her own life her voice hadn't much been heard and in literature her life isn't much heard. For me, it was resisting all the more appealing characters and listening to the voice that hadn't been much heard from.

  Alice McDermott

  Character, Voice, Listening

  "Alice McDermott invokes a voice little heard in life or literature for 'Someone'". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 8, 2013.

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• Perhaps - and this goes for the Kyoto School too - one of these insights is that nothingness and unknowing don't have to be equated with a destructive nihilism but with the experience of unity and participation - whilst resisting the tendency of objectifying metaphysics to claim that we can in some way 'know' that this experienced unity is really the truth of how things are, i.e., reveals being itself.

  George Pattison

  School, Kyoto, Unity

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• Another wing of the party seems to be putting its hands up. They're not all resisting and accepting the [Donald] Trump - the fact that he could very well win the nomination.

  Chris Matthews

  Party, Winning, Hands

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The pull of Guyland reminds us that women cannot accomplish this transformation alone. In the book's final chapter I argue that just as men need to stand up, do the right thing and break the silence that perpetuates Guyland, so, too, do women need to support each other in resisting its pull.

  Michael Kimmel

  Book, Men, Silence

  "How hookups and hang-ups delay manhood". TODAYshow.com Q&A, www.today.com. August 3, 2010.

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• The whole idea of emotions being something we can't escape as humans, but that deep suffering that comes from resisting them, we can move out of that just by not resisting anymore. But it takes a really brave warrior soul to sit there in these emotions that admittedly don't feel good in the body.

  Alanis Morissette

  Moving, Warrior, Ideas

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

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• You shouldn't be shot just because someone yells, "Halt" or resisting arrest or running away from being arrested.

  Jesse Ventura

  Running, Halt, Shots

  "Former governor Jesse Ventura talks about new books ‘Marijuana Manifesto’ and ‘Shit Politicians Say,’ plus much more". Interview with Michelle Tompkins, thecelebritycafe.com. September 1, 2016.

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• The day we stop resisting our instincts, we'll have learned how to live.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Gay, Lgbt, Instinct

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• A man who gives way to his passions is like a man who is shot by an enemy, catches the arrow in his hands, and then plunges it into his own heart. A man who is resisting his passions is like a man who is shot by an enemy, and although the arrow hits him, it does not seriously wound him because he is wearing a breastplate. But the man who is uprooting his passions is like a man who is shot by an enemy, but who strikes the arrow and shatters it or turns it back into his enemies heart.

  Dorotheus of Gaza

  Passion, Heart, Men

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• It's a shame that people are resisting vetting programs that would actually just keep out those who want to do us harm.

  Kellyanne Conway

  People, Want, Shame

  "Donald Trump’s campaign manager has no clue what a press conference is". www.washingtonpost.com. September 21, 2016.

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