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“What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people, is that they don't want to discourage it completely.”
Benjamin Franklin
“We believe it originated in Africa because frogs here have a local resistance to the fungus, and we have the oldest frog specimens with the disease anywhere in the world.”
Che Weldon
“It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn requirement of self-approval.”
Mark Twain
“[Smith couldn't resist elaborating:] It would be the most fictional role-playing ever. I'm no Affleck, which is bad in the bedroom, but good professionally. It's good not to be Ben Affleck professionally, because then I don't have to explain 'Gigli' ... for the next ten years.”
Ben Affleck
“As the Sandwich-Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptations we resist”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
“pockets of resistance remain.”
Richard Myers
“Don't threaten me with love, baby”
Billie Holiday
