#resist

Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt. ↗

— Jack Nicklaus

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The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

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A moving body whose motion was not retarded by any resisting force would continue to move to all eternity. ↗

— Hermann von Helmholtz

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Resist much, obey little. ↗

— Walt Whitman

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At which time came to us many boats and we suffered them to come aboard, being not able to resist them, which people did us no harm, neither of us understanding the one the other. ↗

— William Adams

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Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

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I'm very resistant to most forms of theater. ↗

— Steven Berkoff

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Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated. ↗

— Isaiah Berlin

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