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Resistance

(noun) The act of resisting, or the capacity to resist. Example: "the resistance of bacteria to certain antibiotics"

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"The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men."
— Henry David Thoreau
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear."
— Mark Twain
"I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage."
— Friedrich Nietzsche
"He will soon be claiming that the Resistance has liberated the world."
— Coco Chanel
"Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting."
— Sun Tzu
"When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty."
— Thomas Jefferson
"Resistance to pain is also resistance to pleasure."
— Caylor Parish
"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere."
— Thomas Jefferson
"I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing."
— J. Cole

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