"I was no suffragette, but I was pretty sure the he-can’t-control-himself defense was a big, stinky load of horseshit."
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"There are some authors who contend that meanings and values are "nothing but defense mechanisms, reaction formations and sublimations." But as for myself, I would not be willing to live merely for the sake of my "defense mechanisms," nor would I be ready to die merely for the sake of my "reaction formations."
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"Cut defense spending as part of cutting all federal spending."
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"Regardless of how well you can be offensively, if you have a great defense, you can deal with any offense."
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"It's only by investing properly in our defense that we can ensure we're properly equipped to face our shared challenges together."
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"Although our prospect is peace, our policy and purpose are to provide for defense by all those means to which our resources are competent."
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"The best defense of democracy is an informed electorate."
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"Defense. That' the thing I'm known for."
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"The defense against childish helplessness is what lends its characteristic features to the adult's reaction to the helplessness which he has to acknowledge - a reaction which is precisely the formation of religion."
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"The passion to change the world for the better is a more powerful force than defense to keep it the same."
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"I read in the press, and therefore it must be true, that no secretary of defense had ever been quoted as arguing for a bigger budget for State."
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"I had no difficulty as Secretary of Defense moving from the Bush administration to the Obama administration."
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"Humor is a great defense, and an offense too. Usually the recipient isn't too happy about it, but the people around are laughing."
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"Now scarcely a week goes by without a news story about the cops swooping down on some adolescent prowler who is as skilled at breaking into computer systems as defense contractors are at breaking into the Federal budget."
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"When I was younger, I was reticent to be vulnerable on camera and everything I was doing was just a really finely honed defense mechanism from when I was a kid, and I was now using this to make a living on camera."
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"Witness for the defense, Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore."
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"I think of customer service as an offense and not a defense"
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"Hope is no basis for a defense policy."
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"No one is ever more him/herself than when they really laugh. Their defenses are down. It's very Zen-like, that moment. They are completely open."
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"Vitamin C is a very effective immune booster and probably the safest first line of defense for infection."
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