Best Defence Lines
240 Defence quotes by 204 unique authors
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Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences…
— Daniel Dennett
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Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence.
— Thomas Paine
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There are some guys you have problems beating because of their style - I always had difficulties with guys like Michael Chang and Andre Agassi…
— Guy Forget
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I understand all the problems for the Ministry of Defence, of course I do; working within a budget and trying to do so many things…
— Mike Jackson
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I procrastinate in spades. In my defence, I also try to have all other distractions solved before I can concentrate on writing. My small theory…
— Markus Zusak
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There is one key area in which Zuma has made no attempt at reconciliation whatsoever: criminal justice and security. The ministers of justice, defence, intelligence…
— Mark Gevisser
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One of the marked characteristics of the U.K. security industry as compared with defence is the lack of company scale. This can put our firms…
— Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones
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Education is civil defence against media fallout.
— Marshall McLuhan
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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
— Jean de La Fontaine
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Oft has good nature been the fool's defence, And honest meaning gilded want of sense.
— William Shenstone
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What boots it at one gate to make defence, And at another to let in the foe?
— John Milton
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The perversion of the mind is only possible when those who should be heard in its defence are silent.
— Archibald MacLeish
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Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave.
— Plutarch
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Tools and techniques ought to be an extension of consciousness, but they can just as easily be a protection from consciousness. Then the tools become…
— Rollo May
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If the basis of trust between the Prime Minister and her Defence Secretary no longer exists, there is no place for me with honour in…
— Michael Heseltine
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The artist, who must venture into the studio and risk there, and then venture into the marketplace and risk again, is obliged to learn how…
— Eric Maisel
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Artillery is more essential to cavalry than to infantry, because cavalry has no fire for its defence, but depends on the sabre.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Rattlesnakes are only too plentiful everywhere; along the river bottoms, in the broken, hilly ground, and on the prairies and the great desert wastes alike...If…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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The Marxist doctrine is omnipotent because it is true. It is comprehensive and harmonious, and provides men with an integral world outlook irreconcilable with any…
— Vladimir Lenin
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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The man whose silent daysIn harmless joys are spent,Whom hopes cannot delude,Nor sorrow discontent:That man needs neither towersNor armour for defence,Nor secret vaults to flyFrom…
— Thomas Campion
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The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.
— Edward Coke
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The lucky thing was that I was Italian; when the other Italians saw me fight back, they came to my defence.
— Gregory Corso
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What I would argue in my defence is that shows like 'Britain's Got Talent' and 'The X Factor' have actually got people more interested in…
— Simon Cowell
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With wives, men hide behind the air of bravado, which is basically a defence mechanism, I think. Clever creatures, women. Very clever.
— Les Dawson
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