"Free yourself emotionally - to be emotionally resilient is the best defense against growing rigid."
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"Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy watching all your reactions, and steal your secret by involving you in cunning obstructions that halt your normal flow."
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"Sadly, I do my homework. I've a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before meeting with Kofi Annan. I read the Meltzer report, and then I'll read C. Fred Bergsten's defense of institutions like the World Bank and the I.M.F. It's embarrassing to admit."
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"In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also."
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"A stronger defense is an investment in peace."
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"Self-defense...is the only honourable course where there is unreadiness for self-immolation."
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"...it is a base thing to look to others for your defense instead of depending upon yourself. That defense alone is effectual, sure, and durable which depends upon yourself and your own valor."
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"We must take care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, in a respectable defensive posture."
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"I will veto any effort to get rid of those automatic spending cuts to domestic and defense spending. There will be no easy off ramps on this one."
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"Certain people, in their eagerness to construct a world no external threat can penetrate build exaggeratedly high defense againts the outside world, againts new people, new places, different experiences and leave their own world stripped bare. It is there that bitterness begins irrevocable work."
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"Fantasy allows you to get past defenses."
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"Abortion is an act of self-defense."
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"Truth is the best defense."
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"My belief has always been that national defense is the most important thing we do, but we shouldn't borrow to pay for it."
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"Of all my Russian books, the defense contains and diffuses the greatest 'warmth' which may seem odd seeing how supremely abstract Chess is supposed to be"
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"Defense is not like other discretionary spending."
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"To make fun of an administration, to make fun of anything, Mark Twain said, is the last defense of democracy."
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"The only defensible war is a war of defense."
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"The purpose of the right to bear arms is twofold; to allow individuals to protect themselves and their families, and to ensure a body of armed citizenry from which a militia could be drawn, whether that militia's role was to protect the nation, or to protect the people from a tyrannical government."
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"One thing in my defense, not that it matters: I know something Carter never knew, or Helene, or maybe you. I know what "nothing" means, and keep on playing."
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