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Letter "R" » resisting
«Secular humanists suspect there is something more gloriously human about resisting the religious impulse; about accepting the cold truth, even if that truth is only that the universe is as indifferent to us as we are to it; about facing the existenti»
Author: Tom Flynn
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Keywords:
about-face,
accepting,
facing,
gloriously,
humanist,
humanists,
impulse,
indifferent,
religious truth,
resisting,
secular,
suspect
«Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds»
Author: Zig Ziglar
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Author,
Speaker)
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About:
Life,
Mankind
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Keywords:
changes,
go through,
imaginations,
jar,
jarring,
jars,
minds,
resisting,
ruts,
rutting,
smugly,
worlds
«What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people, is that they don't want to discourage it completely.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
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Inventor,
Philosopher,
Printer,
Scientist,
Statesman,
Writer)
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Keywords:
completely,
difficult,
discourage,
discourages,
discouraging,
resisting,
temptation
«Jesus tapped me on the shoulder and said, Bob, why are you resisting me? I said, I'm not resisting you! He said, You gonna follow me? I said, I've never thought about that before! He said, When you're not following me, you're resisting me.»
Author: Bob Dylan
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Keywords:
bob,
bobbing,
Bobs,
bob up,
following,
Jesus,
on tap,
resisting,
shoulder,
shouldered,
shoulder in,
tapped,
tapping,
taps
«I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
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Critic,
Essayist,
Playwright)
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Keywords:
accursed,
All My,
dreaded,
dreaming,
fruit,
resisting,
rotten,
sweetness,
yielding
«Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends up blocking his retreat.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(
Critic,
Dramatist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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About:
Men and Women
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Keywords:
Advances,
begins,
blocked,
blocking,
block out,
ends,
end man,
His,
resisting,
retreat,
retreated,
retreating,
retreats,
woman
«Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(
Critic,
Dramatist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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Keywords:
Advances,
begins,
blocked,
blocking,
block out,
ends,
resisting,
retreat,
retreated,
retreating,
retreats
«God is better served in resisting a Temptation to Evil, than in many formal Prayers.»