#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

#except #i #i can #resist #temptation

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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I focus on having a feminine body, a dancer's body. I do resistance and dance and cardio. I like hiking, swimming, being active. It clears your mind and it's a good way to decompress. ↗

— Ashley Greene

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Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

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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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Resist much, obey little. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#resistance

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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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. ↗

— Brian Aldiss

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