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"If you allow failure to take on more of a role in your life than possible, then you'll always look at it on the defense and you'll always shoot yourself down before it even goes anywhere."
"I feel more comfortable with the ball in my hands, playing the point guard. But I like playing the 2, too. I think I bring tough defense and the ability to score and also get my teammates the ball to score."
"And if, to be sure, sometimes you need to conceal a fact with words, do it in such a way that it does not become known, or, if it does become known, that you have a ready and quick defense."
"Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defence can actually be just."
"The price of eternal vigilance is indifference."
"Even if Mays is given every conceivable break on every unknown - defense, base running, clutch hitting - his performance still would not match Mantle's."
"Well, first let's say that the fundamental responsibility of any government is national security - in the preamble to the Constitution, provide for the common defense and insure domestic tranquility."
"We know great art by its effect on us. If we are prepared to look without preconceptions, without defenses, without haste, then art will change us."
"The great defence against aerial menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure."
"We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal."
"For us to ignore by inaction the slaughter of American civilians and American soldiers, whether in nightclubs or airline terminals, is simply not in the American tradition. Self-defense is not only our right, it is our duty."
"The best defense against logic is ignorance."
"One doesn't defend one's god: one's god is in himself a defense."
"Diplomacy and defense are not substitutes for one another. Either alone would fail."
"I don't want my generals or my defense secretary or my national-security team to ever feel deploying weapons to kill people as routine or abstract, even if the targets are bad people."
"If anyone should tell you that a particular person has spoken critically of you, don't bother with excuses or defenses. Just smile and reply, "I guess that person doesn't know about all my other faults. Otherwise, he wouldn't have mentioned only these.""
"I've still never gotten behind the defense and been caught."
"Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack."
"I believe in traditional marriage and I believe in the Defense of Marriage Act."
"Innocence is its own defense."
