"When things go wrong or dont turn out the way you pictured them in your head, you just have to go with the best intentions defense. I have a lot of good intentions."
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"Here, every private person is authorized to arm himself, and on the strength of this authority, I do not deny the inhabitants had a right to arm themselves at that time, for their defense, not for offense."
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"Religion is a defense against the experience of God."
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"Certain forms of ammunition have no legitimate sporting, recreational, or self-defense use and thus should be prohibited."
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"But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication."
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"Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings."
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"The best defense against democracy is to distract people."
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"Education is the cheap defense of nations."
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"There’s only one basic principle of self-defense- you must apply the most effective weapon, as soon as possible, to the most vulnerable target."
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"I stand on the end platform of the tram and am completely unsure of my footing in this world, in this town, in my family. Not even casually could I indicate any claims that I might rightly advance in any direction. I have not even any defense to offer for standing on this platform, holding on to this strap, letting myself be carried along by this tram, nor for the people who give way to the tram or walk quietly along or stand gazing into shop windows. Nobody asks me to put up a defense, indeed, but that is irrelevant."
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"The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets."
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"Self-defense is not only our right; it is our duty."
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"The National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman."
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"War for the sake of war is sin, but war for the sake of defense is duty."
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"The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders. Remaining silent about the destruction of nature is an endorsement of that destruction."
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"The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without."
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"Right is its own defense."
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"That's my only defense against this world: to build a sentence out of it."
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"No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy."
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"Knavery is the best defense against a knave."
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