"We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them."
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"The moment that you place blame somewhere, you undermine your resolve to change anything."
"It may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve."
"I went to collect the few personal belongings which...I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude."
"There is no avoidance in delay."
"Afterthought makes the first resolve a liar."
"Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God."
"Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water."
"His resolve is not to seem the bravest, but to be."
"Resolve to be among the top 20% of salespeople who make 80% of the sales."
"We spend our days in deliberating, and we end them without coming to any resolve."
"Wise to resolve, patient to perform."
"Being at a loss to resolve these questions, I am resolved to leave them without any resolution."
"America leads - not with bluster, but with persistent, steady resolve."
"He that resolves to mend hereafter, resolves not to mend now."
"Resolve to be always beginning-to be a beginner!"
"Resolve to do one thing every day that you fear."
"Let me resolve to be virtuous, that I may be happy, that I may please Him, who is delighted to see me happy. Amen."
"The causes of life's history [cannot] resolve the riddle of life's meaning."
"Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies."
"Those who are unswerving have resolve"