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Maya Lin Architect, Artist
Resistance

"To fly, we have to have resistance. It's all about turbulence. Reacting to images of wave patterns in fluid motion."

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Esther Hicks Author, Speaker
Resistance

"Negative emotion is your indicator of resistance, while positive emotion is your indicator of allowance. And they are on the same meter: allowance; resistance. Allowance; resistance."

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Bono Musician, Activist
Resistance

"But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was always a lot of resistance to U2. And that's why we came to America."

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
Resistance

"It is much more likely that help comes in when what you are doing is done while you are in a state of inner peace, rather than resistance."

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Plutarch Philosopher, Historian
Resistance

"When I myself had twice or thrice made a resolute resistance unto anger, the like befell me that did the Thebans; who, having once foiled the Lacedaemonians (who before that time had held themselves invincible), never after lost so much as one battle which they fought against them."

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