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We understand nature by resisting it.
All stress comes from resisting what is.
Stupid truth, always resisting simplicity
Pain is the price you pay for resisting life.
Resisting madness is the maddest way of being mad.
I have spent my life resisting the desire to end it.
There can be no criminal intent in resisting injustice.
I'm always resisting [my muse]. I'm resisting her power.
Freedom comes not from resisting truth, but from applying it.
Trust me when I tell you, Eaton boy, that resisting is worth doing.
We will not stop resisting the occupation until liberation or martyrdom.
A working knowledge of the devil can be very well had from resisting him.
Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
Willpower is not about resisting, forcing, or controlling--it's about choosing.
I never had a problem resisting somebody that I knew was going to break my heart.
resisting life, he finds that the Self is more than his own being; it includes the whole universe.
A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.
What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely.
A moving body whose motion was not retarded by any resisting force would continue to move to all eternity.
We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.
The Afghans are probably the world champions in resisting foreign domination and infiltration into their country.
Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be.
Originally, when I was introduced to yoga, I kept resisting. I kept saying that I wouldn't be caught dead doing yoga.
They don't call it the Internet anymore, they call it cloud computing. I'm no longer resisting the name. Call it what you want.
When your soul is resting, your emotions are okay, your mind is okay, and your will is at peace with God, not resisting what He's doing.
I'm your typical highly educated, progressive white dude. I've lived my life resisting racism both within myself and in the society around me.
McNamara's plea was that he had no idea that Vietnam had a history of longing for self-determination, a history of resisting foreign invasion.
It was important to feel that you were resisting the fascism around you. But we had no electricity to watch movies. We were imagining our movies.
The upshot of the Nixon tapes case was that any president is going to have an extremely hard time resisting a request from a law enforcement officer.
Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.
It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating one's own creativity - that's a much tougher matter.
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.
Most people heard about Hamas after Hamas started carrying out terrorist attacks. Hamas started out as an idea. Let's say a noble idea - resisting occupation.
By resisting almost any change aimed at improving our public schools, teachers' unions have become a ripe target for reformers across the ideological spectrum.
Cindy Hyde-Smith has proven that she's committed to resisting the Democrats' obstructionist tactics and helping my father-in-law implement his pro-growth policies.
Nature was developed to resist the onslaughts of capitalism, but it's really not a very good defense - rather like resisting a steamroller with a Christmas tree ornament.
When you stop resisting your emotions, you will quickly realize that your feelings are your friends. They are your soul's way to communicate with you and are meant to guide and inform you.
Anything that can unambiguously represent two values - while resisting, just a wee bit, randomly flipping from the state you want retained into the opposite state - can encode binary data.
Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well be the ultimate argument in favor of term limitations.
They're not bombarding me with offers, although the ones that have come along have been too preposterous to contemplate, so it's not as if I spend every day resisting $20 million pay cheques.
We all have our baggage, and I think the trick is not resisting it but accepting it, understanding that the worst experience has a valuable gift wrapped inside if you're willing to receive it.
Courage does not mean not fearing or not grieving. It does mean recognizing and resisting terror management right away, from the moment of the attack, precisely when it seems most difficult to do so.
The very best Labor governments in our nation's history distinguished themselves by thinking big and, wherever possible, resisting the temptation to overemphasise short-term political considerations.
When I was fourteen years old, I got arrested for battering an officer and resisting arrest with violence. I was beat up by the cops and they charged me with that. There was no original arresting charge.
There is no living African writer who has not had to, or will not have to, contend with Achebe's work. We are either resisting him - stylistically, politically, or culturally - or we are writing toward him.
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.
I think that many of the issues they were facing in South Africa were the same as those I was singing about. Conscription, resisting the draft, government repression - I mentioned all those things in my songs.
My guess is that before Obama departs, he will adopt some of the more aggressive military options he has been resisting, such as 'safe zones' inside Syria and more aggressive deployment of U.S. special forces.
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.
The history of humanity has, to a large extent, been one of groping blindly in the dark, fearing for the future and yet resisting the guiding hand of inspired men who would willingly lead mankind in the path of safety.