#resist

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas. ↗

— Henry Ford

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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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I can resist everything except temptation. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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The progressive movement against the war of occupation in Iraq is a reason for hope, as is resistance to free trade agreements in Latin America. Those are moments that we have to celebrate: that people still find the resolve and energy to resist. ↗

— Danny Glover

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Over the years I've seen people lose a spouse and then withdraw and lose interest in life, and I believe we need to resist that. ↗

— Billy Graham

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I write these words to bear witness to the primacy of resistance struggle in any situation of domination (even within family life); to the strength and power that emerges from sustained resistance and the profound conviction that these forces can be healing, can protect us from dehumanization and despair. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#family

I know My God commands, whose power no power resists. ↗

— Robert Greene

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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

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The soy-bean, in particular, has proved sufficiently resistant to cold in spring and to adverse weather during summer to warrant heavy planting, especially throughout the South. ↗

— David F. Houston

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Wherever it is resisted, slaver dies away and freedom grows. ↗

— Henry Charles Carey

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