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• Stupid truth, always resisting simplicity

  John Green

  Stupid, Simplicity

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• When you're not happy, you need to be strong to change, resisting the temptation of turning back. The weak goes nowhere

  Ayrton Senna

  Strong, Temptation, Needs

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• Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Temptation, Merit

  Samuel Johnson (1966). “Johnsonian miscellanies”, Constable

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• There is not a great sense that the Americans know what they are doing, or are making much progress in Iraq. And there is satisfaction in seeing that the Iraqis are successful in resisting the United States.

  Walter Russell Mead

  Successful, Iraq, Progress

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• Have we the means of resisting disciplined armies, when our only defence, the militia, is put in the hands of Congress?

  Patrick Henry

  Mean, Army, Hands

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, Samuel Bryan, Patrick Henry (2017). “The Federalist Papers & Anti-Federalist Papers: Complete Edition of the Pivotal Constitution Debate: Including Articles of Confederation (1777), Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights & Other Amendments – All With Founding Fathers’ Arguments & Decisions about the Constitution”, p.74, Madison & Adams Press

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• Resisting madness is the maddest way of being mad.

  Norman O. Brown

  Mad, Way, Madness

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• When you surrender and stop resisting and stop trying to change that which you can't change, but be in the moment, be fully open to the blessings you've already received and those that are yet to come and stand in that space of gratitude ... and look at where you are and how far you've come and what you've accomplished - when you can claim THAT and SEE that, the literal vibration of your life will change.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Gratitude, Blessing, Space

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• Paraphrased: The way of al-Junayd includes among other things abstaining constantly from resisting God Most High in whatever happens to one, whether good or bad. . . .

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Als, Way, Abstaining

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• Every atom is working and resisting every thought in the mind. Everything we see and know is but the resultant of these two forces.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Two, Mind, Atoms

  Swami Vivekananda (1926). “The Complete Works of the Swami Vivekananda, Comprising All His Lectures, Addresses and Discourses Delivered in Europe, America and India: All His Writings in Prose and Poetry, Together with Translations of Those Written in Bengali and Sanskrit; Reports of His Interviews and His Replies to the Various Addresses of Welcome; His Sayings and Epistles,--private and Public--original and Translated; with an Index; Carefully Revised & Edited”

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• When we stop resisting what we don't want to feel and embrace the state that we are in, we move through whatever it is SO much faster and find our way back to truth and clarity.

  Michael Eisen

  Moving, Want, Way

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• It is in the thousands of days of trying, failing, sitting, thinking, resisting, dreaming, raveling, unraveling that we are at our most engaged, alert, and alive.

  Dani Shapiro

  Dream, Thinking, Trying

  Dani Shapiro (2013). “Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life”, p.88, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• A belief, however necessary it may be for the preservation of a species, has nothing to do with truth. The falseness of a judgment is not for us necessarily an objection to a judgment. The question is to what extent it is life-promoting, life-preserving, species preserving, perhaps even species cultivating. 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

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• Charity is having patience with someone who has let us down. It is resisting the impulse to become offended easily. It is accepting weaknesses and shortcomings. It is accepting people as they truly are. It is looking beyond physical appearances to attributes that will not dim through time. It is resisting the impulse to categorize others.

  Thomas S. Monson

  People, Weakness, Charity

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• We can aim to create a culture, where kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them.

  Michelle Obama

  Kids, Healthy, Culture

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• You can't change anything by fighting or resisting it. You change something by making it obsolete through superior methods.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Fighting, Obsolete, Method

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• He had angered Providence by resisting too many temptations. There was nothing left but heaven, where he would meet only those who, like him, had wasted earth.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Heaven, Temptation, Earth

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.1105, e-artnow

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• But in the end, back she comes. There's no use resisting. She goes to him for amnesia, for oblivion. She renders herself up, is blotted out; enters the darkness of her own body, forgets her name. Immolation is what she wants, however briefly. To exist without boundaries.

  Margaret Atwood

  Names, Darkness, Use

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.261, Anchor

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• Something aches at the very core of me, something ancient and deep and stronger than words: the filament that joins each of us to the root of existence, that ancient thing unfurling and resisting and grappling, desperately, for a foothold, a way to stay here, breathe, keep going.

  Lauren Oliver

  Roots, Stronger, Way

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.294, Hachette UK

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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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• I'm sorry," he breathed. "You're just extremely irresistible." "Strange, men have been resisting me for years.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Sorry, Men, Years

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.569, Macmillan

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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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• ...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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• 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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• 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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• A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Life, Philosophical, Men

  Thomas Hobbes (2015). “Leviathan”, p.151, eKitap Projesi

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