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resist
«For an athlete to function properly, he must be intent. There has to be a definite purpose and goal if you are to progress. If you are not intent about what you are doing, you aren't able to resist the temptation to do something else that might be more fun at the moment.»
Author: John Wooden
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athlete, definite, for all intents and purposes, function, intent, intents, properly, resist, something else, temptation, to all intents and purposes
«Humane sentiments are baseless, mad, and improper; they are incredibly feeble; never do they withstand the gainsaying passions, never do they resist bare necessity.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
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bare, bared, barer, bares, barest, baring, baseless, feeble, feebler, feeblest, gainsay, gainsaying, humane, improper, incredibly, mad, necessity, passions, resist, sentiments, withstand, withstanding, withstood
«Above all, I enjoin the government and the people to uphold the race laws to the limit and to resist mercilessly the poisoner of all nations, international Jewry.»
Author: Adolf Hitler
(Chancellor)
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Above the Law, enjoin, enjoins, International, international law, Jewry, limit, mercilessly, poisoner, Poisoners, resist, The International, The Limit, to the limit, upheld, uphold, upholding, upholds
«A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
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«Again and again I am brought up against it, and again and again I resist it: I don't want to believe it, even though it is almost palpable: the vast majority lack an intellectual conscience; indeed, it often seems to me that to demand such a thing is to be in the most populous cities as solitary as in the desert.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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again and again, cities, demand, desert, intellectual, most populous, palpable, populous, resist, solitary, vast
«But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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bait, baited, baiting, baits, exists, For every, resist, Swallowing, swallow up, There exists
«All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is a long, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.»