#resistance

Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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There is resistance to change. There's a resistance to ideas. ↗

— Abdallah II

#ideas #resistance

I was part of the draft resistance movement in L.A. where we did demonstrations at the draft centre and burned our cards and made a lot of trouble on campus. I had a student classification and they said that anybody who'd taken part in these demonstrations would be reclassified and drafted. And that's when I went to Canada. ↗

— Cheech Marin

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I thought using the Ayatollah's money to support the Nicaraguan resistance was a neat idea. ↗

— Oliver North

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The resistance does not mean that everyone can carry a weapon. The weapon is only for the people of the weapons. ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

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The repeated announcements that the Russian resistance was definitely broken have been proved to be untrue. ↗

— Hjalmar Schacht

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The hesitancy is in the detail, not the principal. There has been no resistance to the principal of women playing in the Open if they are qualified for it. We are not dragging our feet. It's just that we never had cause to think about it before. ↗

— Peter Dawson

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Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory. ↗

— Frederick William Faber

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Resistance is experienced as fear; the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#resistance #art

So never give in,” continued the girl, and restated again and again the vague yet convincing plea that the Invisible lodges against the Visible. Her excitement grew as she tried to cut the rope that fastened Leonard to the earth. Woven of bitter experience, it resisted her. Presently the waitress entered and gave her a letter from Margaret. Another note, addressed to Leonard, was inside. They read them, listening to the murmurings of the river. ↗

— E.M. Forster

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