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Tag Name "Defends" (46)

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The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.
Miguel de Unamuno
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Cleverly assorted scraps of spurious science are inculcated upon the children to prove necessity of law obedience to the law is made a religion moral goodness and the law of the masters are fused into one and the same divinity. The historical hero of the schoolroom is the man who obeys the law, and defends it against rebels.
Peter Kropotkin
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Innocence is like polished armor it adorns and defends.
Robert South
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The left defends their, whatever you want to call, partisans, activists or what have you.
Rush Limbaugh
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No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people.
Albert Camus
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One defends when his strength is inadequate, he attacks when it is abundant.
Sun Tzu
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ACCOMPLICE, n. One associated with another in a crime, having guilty knowledge and complicity, as an attorney who defends a criminal, knowing him guilty. This view of the attorney's position in the matter has not hitherto commanded the assent of attorneys, no one having offered them a fee for assenting.
Ambrose Bierce
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I'm not a person who defends myself very often. I kind of let my actions speak for me.
Tom Brady
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The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.
Amos Bronson Alcott
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The basic principles of democracy should be observed whatever the country - principles such as civil liberties, a free market, a free press, the priority of the individual over mythical state interests, a state which serves the interests of ordinary people and defends their rights and interests. This is all easy to say but hard to make reality.
Vladimir Putin
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Climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security, an immediate risk to our national security, and, make no mistake, it will impact how our military defends our country.
Barack Obama
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What an ornament and safeguard is humor! Far better than wit for a poet and writer. It is a genius itself, and so defends from the insanities.
Walter Scott
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A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat. A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday. A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend -- and he's a priest.
Erma Bombeck
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Passionate expression and vehement assertion are no arguments, unless it be of the weakness of the cause that is defended by them, or of the man that defends it.
William Chillingworth
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Your reason is your friend. It defends the island of your awareness. But you don't want your reason to rule everything.
Frederick Lenz
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Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality.
William Sloane Coffin
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From the beginning, I said that Israel, one, has a right to defend herself, but Israel ought to be cautious about how she defends herself. Israel's a democratically elected government. They make decisions on their own sovereignty. It's their decision-making that is what leads to the tactics they chose.
George W. Bush
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The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.
Winston Churchill
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A child's instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child's hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Man only honors what he conquers or defends.
Joseph Goebbels
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Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
Laurence J. Peter
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The true democrat is he who with purely nonviolent means defends his liberty and, therefore, his country's and ultimately that of the whole of mankind.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Comedy defends the commonplace tragedy explodes it.
Mason Cooley
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Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium.
Nathalie Sarraute
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