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Tag Name "Resisting" (138)

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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
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Resisting conformity and developing some small eccentricities are among the steps to independence and self-confidence.
Al MacInnis
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Resisting overreaching by the federal government is appropriate and, yes, even patriotic.
Russ Feingold
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Resisting madness is the maddest way of being mad.
Norman O. Brown
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Resisting a task is usually a sign that it's meaningful-which is why it's awakening your fears and stimulating procrastination. You could adopt Do whatever you're resisting the most as a philosophy of life.
Oliver Burkeman
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Resisting what is happening is a major cause of suffering.
Pema Chodron
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Resisting is worth doing.
Veronica Roth
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resisting life, he finds that the Self is more than his own being it includes the whole universe.
Monica Furlong
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Resisting and avoiding pain sucks energy-and time. The more you let yourself feel those minute-and-a-half hells, the quicker you'll start feeling those minute-and-a-half happinesses.
Leigh Newman
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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
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Defeat I shall not know. It shall not touch me. I will meet it with true thinking. Resisting it will be my strengthening. But if, perchance, the day shall give to me the bitter cup, it shall sweeten in the drinking.
Walter Russell
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I think that the responsibility that the Democrats had may rest more in resisting any efforts by Republicans in the Congress, or by me when I was President, to put some standards and tighten up a little on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
William J. Clinton
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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
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The history of liberty is the history of limitations on the power of government, not the increase of it. When we resist, therefore, the concentration of power, we are resisting the processes of death, because concentration of power is what always precedes the destruction of human liberties.
Woodrow Wilson
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The mind, by its very nature, persistently tries to live forever, resisting age and attempting to give itself a form... . When a person passes his prime and his life begins to lose true vigor and charm, his mind starts functioning as if it were another form of life it imitates what life does, eventually doing what life cannot do.
Yukio Mishima
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Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.
Zig Ziglar
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The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.
Thomas Huxley
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Secular humanists suspect there is something more gloriously human about resisting the religious impulse about accepting the cold truth, even if that truth is only that the universe is as indifferent to us as we are to it.
Tom Flynn
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Trust me when I tell you, Eaton boy, that resisting is worth doing.
Veronica Roth
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Let the beautiful laws prevail. Let us not weary ourselves by resisting them.
Henry David Thoreau
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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
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While I know that the beautiful, the spiritual and the sublime are suspect today, I have begun to stop resisting the constant urge to deny that beauty has a valid right to exist in contemporary art.
Ian Hornak
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I've always resisted the idea of becoming a David Hasselhoff, and I hope I'm still resisting it.
Anthony Head
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When it's impossible, it's better to stoop to compromise, without resisting and without complaining. People who complain are selfish.
Indira Gandhi
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