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Equally critical is that the measure of how free a society is is not how it treats its good, obedient, compliant citizens, but how it treats its dissidents and those who resist orthodoxy.
Second alternative: build a big wall, heavy infrastructure to resist the energy of the waves.
But Japan proved that trying to resist the force of nature is useless.
What if, in between the city and the sea we have a forest, a forest that doesn't try to resist the energy of nature, but dissipates it by introducing friction?
And even if our reservoirs of knowledge are physically secure, they will still have to resist the more insidious forces that tore the library apart: fear of knowledge, and the arrogant belief that the past is obsolete.
They help us resist disease, and they may even be affecting our behavior.
One part of your brain wants you to resist, to shout, to cry, and the other part of the brain orders you to shut up and just go through it.
I couldn't resist.
Those fishing boats were taken out, the men put to work, and they were thrown overboard if they made the mistake of falling sick, or trying to resist their treatment.
Why isn't the title of the show, 'A Black Woman Got the Job?' or 'A Black Woman Got A Job?'" Because without confronting men's sense of entitlement, I don't think we'll ever understand why so many men resist gender equality.
Every time she tried to resist, he would hit her about the face and the head.
We resist, we go against it.
We feel that they're getting in the way ... and so we resist.
Most of them will either try to resist or avoid water loss.
Knowing that your own brain is lying to you while not being able to resist its commands can be agonizing.
Can you resist tackling a brain teaser written by one of the smartest people in history?
And she had drank two glasses of that red juice at the Halloween party, and I mean, who can resist that red juice, right?
People resist.
The solution is clearly to give workers more legal protections, allowing them to resist abuse and report it to authorities without fear of arrest.
People naturally resist change, especially when it's imposed on them.
I never forgot that message, and now, when difficult or painful things happen to me in my life or my work, of course at first I resist them, but then I remember what I learned from the mothers: stay open.
Will you find the strength to resist those cynical old men who want to use your blood for their own profits?
We have to resist the temptation to use fear for ratings.
After all, we've engineered transgenic crops to be maximized for profit, crops that stand up to transport, crops that have a long shelf life, crops that taste sugary sweet but resist pests, sometimes at the expense of nutritional value.
We can resist.
There's a lot of people out there, right now, perhaps especially on the left, who think this is a terrible idea, that actually, the only moral response to the great tyranny that may be about to emerge in America is to resist it at every stage, is to fight it tooth and nail, it's a mistake to try and do this.
And that we should resist the temptation to retreat into our silos.
And we should resist this upsurge in isolationism and jingoism.
What happens in the brain that makes sugary foods so hard to resist?
So actually, it sort of turns out that automatically, if you build a tunnel that is good enough to resist the water table, it is automatically capable of holding vacuum.
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