#resisted

Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

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

— Henry Charles Carey

#dies #freedom #grows #resisted #wherever

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#continuation #happenings #resisted #which

I went through a period at boarding school when my coaches wanted me to switch to snowboarding because they thought I was no good at skiing. I was too skinny. I had terrible technique. They were saying I should be a snowboarder, and luckily, I resisted. ↗

— Bode Miller

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past. ↗

— Tom Peters

#energy #enthusiasm #in the past #learn #must

The abuse of faith has to be resisted precisely. ↗

— Joseph Ratzinger

#faith #precisely #resisted

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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For 18 years I have resisted talking about current events. I am not going to start now. ↗

— George H. W. Bush

#am #current #current events #events #going

At the time my dog had a fungus on her chest that wouldn't heal and resisted treatment. I made an ointment with our product and it cleared up in two days. She lived to 17 years. ↗

— William Standish Knowles

#cleared #days #dog #fungus #had

It's not that I have resisted songwriting, it's just not something I felt I have had to do. I've just not woken up and thought, I must do this. But I have often heard music that I have instantly felt 'I have to sing that song'. ↗

— Alison Krauss

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