Best Defense Against Sayings
84 Defense Against quotes by 73 unique authors
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The mind is essentially a survival machine. Attack and defense against other minds, gathering, storing, and analyzing information - this is what it is good…
— Eckhart Tolle
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The only defense against evil, violent people is good people who are more skilled at violence.
— Rory Miller
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I have asserted the right of Negroes to meet the violence of the Ku Klux Klan by armed self-defense — and have acted on it.…
— Robert F. Williams
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The aims of life are the best defense against death.
— Primo Levi
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
— James Madison
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A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.
— Alice Miller
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Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
— George Orwell
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The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny.
— Ice T
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
— Tennessee Williams
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Don't you know that I laugh because it is my last defense against tears?
— Jim Fergus
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All morning, Spence has been a well-oiled machine of activity. Everyone doing her bit, quietly and efficiently. It's strange how deliberate people are after a…
— Libba Bray
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Ron and Hermione were still smirking and Harry felt his temper rise; he wasn’t even sure why he was feeling so angry. “Don’t sit there…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.
— Ayn Rand
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And I must draft an advertisement for the Daily Prophet, too,' he added thoughtfully. 'We'll be needing a new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher....…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Nothing is more important than that you see and love the beauty that is right in front of you, or else you will have no…
— Neal Stephenson
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The Word of God will be to you a bulwark and a high tower, a castle of defense against the foe. Oh, see to it…
— Charles Spurgeon
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I did point out that I have no prophetic gifts. I write books because I tried to do something more useful and failed. Since I've…
— Ayi Kwei Armah
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A child has little defense against the sight of a parent laid low. Parents, like the earth beneath our feet and the sun above our…
— Rick Yancey
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All the small, simple, conscious acts of living a sudden defense against the dying we do every day.
— Libba Bray
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Hunting and fishing involve killing animals with devices (such as guns) for which the animals have not evolved natural defenses. No animal on earth has…
— Marc Bekoff
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Oh, come off it,” said Ron, striding over to her and whipping her results out of her hand. “Yep— ten ‘Outstandings’ and one ‘Exceeds Expectations’…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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I can't believe they even bothered filling that faculty position again. They might as well rename the class Defense Against the Dark Arts. I mean,…
— Rachel Vincent
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There's no defense against stupidity.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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no matter how we defend ourselves against the outside we're always licked by something from the inside. There‟s no defense against betrayal, and we all…
— Alfred Bester
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