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• The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Reality, Men, Intellectual

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• I can resist everything except temptation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

  Lady Windermere's Fan act 1 (1892) See Balzac 1; Clementina Graham 1; Mae West 19; Wilde 25

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• Resist much, obey little.

  Walt Whitman

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Leaves of Grass”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Army, Ideas

  Victor Hugo (1909). “The History of a Crime”

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• I am iron resisting the most enormous magnet there is.

  Rumi

  Iron, Enormous, Magnet

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• Quiet your mind and stop judging and resisting and manipulating the natural way.

  Laozi

  Judging, Mind, Taoism

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• I don't have the Big Idea. I don't have the arrogance to even want to have the Big Idea. But I believe the physics of resisting power is as old as the physics of accumulating power. That's what keeps the balance in the universe... the refusal to obey.

  Arundhati Roy

  Believe, Ideas, Arrogance

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• But I must bear my destiny as best I can, knowing well that there is no resisting the strength of necessity.

  Aeschylus

  Destiny, Knowing, Bears

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• Resisting what is happening is a major cause of suffering.

  Pema Chodron

  Suffering, Causes, Happenings

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• Becoming less focused on the past and future and not resisting the moment is how to overcome fear, physical pain, and all suffering.

  Lee L Jampolsky

  Pain, Past, Suffering

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Your life, all of your life, is your path to awakening. By resisting or not dealing with its challenges, you stay asleep to Reality. Pay attention to what life is trying to reveal to you. Say yes to its fierce, ruthless, and loving grace.

  Adyashanti

  Reality, Grace, Challenges

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• Only when the mind is still, tranquil, not expecting or grasping or resisting a single thing, is it possible to see what is true. It is the truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Effort, Mind, Expecting

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• What men and women need is encouragement. Their natural resisting powers should be strengthened, not weakened ... Instead of always harping on a man's faults, tell him of his virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut ... Hold up to him his better self, his real self that can dare and do and win out! ... People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts.

  Eleanor Porter

  Encouragement, Real, Heart

  Eleanor Porter (2003). “Pollyanna”, ePenguin

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• No one should be surprised at the difficulty of faith, if there is some part of his life where he is consciously resisting or disobeying the commandment of Jesus. Is there some part of your life which you are refusing to surrender at his behest, some sinful passion, maybe, or some animosity, some hope, perhaps your ambition or your reason? ... How can you hope to enter into communion with him when at some point in your life you are running away from him?

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Running, Jesus, Passion

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• She wasn't afraid of doing good or of resisting evil. She was merely afraid she might not be able to tell the difference.

  Gregory Maguire

  Differences, Evil, Might

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• We will not stop resisting the occupation until liberation or martyrdom.

  Muqtada al Sadr

  Occupation, Liberation, Martyrdom

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• The Europeans and Americans have said the martyrdom operations are why Hamas has been put on the terrorist list. But now these operations have stopped. Did they then remove Hamas from the list of terrorist organisations? We do not launch wars. We are people resisting occupation.

  Ismail Haniyeh

  War, People, Occupation

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• There can be no criminal intent in resisting injustice.

  Lysander Spooner

  Criminals, Injustice

  Lysander Spooner (1850). “A Defence for Fugitive Slaves”, p.36

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• Those who deny the right of a jury to protect an individual in resisting an unjust law of the government, deny him all defence whatsoever against oppression.

  Lysander Spooner

  Government, Law, Unjust

  Lysander Spooner (2004). “An Essay on the Trial by Jury”, p.10, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• Perhaps the greatest charity comes when we are kind to each other, when we don’t judge or categorize someone else, when we simply give each other the benefit of the doubt or remain quiet. Charity is accepting someone’s differences, weaknesses, and shortcomings; having patience with someone who has let us down; or resisting the impulse to become offended when someone doesn’t handle something the way we might have hoped. Charity is refusing to take advantage of another’s weakness and being willing to forgive someone who has hurt us. Charity is expecting the best of each other

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Forgiveness, Patience, Hurt

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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.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophy, Mean, Evil

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.202, Modern Library

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• ...Cities may be rebuilt, and a People reduced to Poverty, may acquire fresh Property: But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty once lost is lost forever. When the People once surrendered their share in the Legislature, and their Right of defending the Limitations upon the Government, and of resisting every Encroachment upon them, they can never regain it.

  John Adams

  Government, Cities, People

  John Adams (2003). “The Letters of John and Abigail Adams”, p.50, Penguin

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• Whenever you made a choice, especially one you'd been resisting, it always affected everything else, some in big ways, like a tremor beneath your feet, others in so tiny a shift you hardly noticed a change at all. But it was happening.

  Sarah Dessen

  Feet, Choices, Way

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.85, Penguin

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• Truth grew in my mind like a fungus, and though I tried to sleep it out, there was no resisting the epiphanies.

  Donald Miller

  Sleep, Mind, Epiphany

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• For seven days she lay in bed looking sullenly at the ceiling as though resenting the death she had cultivated for so many years. Like some people who cannot vomit despite horrible nausea, she lay there unable to die, resisting death as she had resisted life, frozen with resentment of process and change.

  William S. Burroughs

  Years, People, Bed

  William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac (2009). “And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks”, p.57, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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