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Letter "R" » resisted
«In order to have an enemy, one must be somebody. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force. A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.»
Author: Anne Sophie Swetchine
| About:
Enemies
| Keywords:
clumsy, in good order, malicious, resisted
«Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.»
«A person of definite character and purpose who comprehends our way of thought is sure to exert power over us. He cannot altogether be resisted; because, if he understands us, he can make us understand him, through the word, the look, or other symbol.»
Author: Charles Horton Cooley
| About:
Character,
Power,
Purpose,
Relationships,
Thought,
Understanding
| Keywords:
altogether, comprehends, definite, exert, exerts, resisted, symbol
«There is not any memory with less satisfaction in it than the memory of some temptation we resisted»
«There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.»
«Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.»
Author: Deepak Chopra
(Author, Physician)
| About:
Happiness
| Keywords:
continuation, happenings, resisted
«Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.»
Author: Frederick Douglass
(Abolitionist, Author, Lecturer, Slave)
| Keywords:
amount, blows, continue, endurance, exact, imposed, injustice, limits, oppress, prescribed, prescribes, resisted, submit, submitting, tyrants
«Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.»
Author: Richard M. Nixon
(President)
| About:
Bureaucracy,
Change
| Keywords:
bureaucrat, bureaucrats, resisted, vest, vested, vested interest, vests
«Capricious, wanton, bold, and brutal lust Is meanly selfish; when resisted, cruel; And, like the blast of pestilential winds, Taints the sweet bloom of nature's fairest forms»
«An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.»
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