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The broad outlines of the Double Cross deception have been known since 1972, when Sir John Masterman, the former chairman of the double agent committee,… — Ben Macintyre
Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by. — Oliver Goldsmith
There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to… — Abraham Joshua Heschel
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by… — Thomas Jefferson
What is wine? It is the grape present in another form; its essence is there, though the fruit which produced it grew thousands of miles… — Samuel Lover
With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance. — Norman Mailer
I am certain that I speak on behalf of my entire nation when I say: September 11th we are all Americans - in grief, as… — Benjamin Netanyahu
It has been, after all, 11 years, more than a decade now, of defiance of U.N. resolutions by Saddam Hussein. Every obligation that he signed… — Condoleezza Rice
Well, there's been plenty of ultimatums, and one thing that we better be very clear is that we can't continue to have the kind of… — Condoleezza Rice
When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
You've got to know what your 'thing' is, and you've got to call it a 'thing,' whether it's meanness, nastiness, un-forgiveness, arrogance, ego, resistance, rebelliousness… — Iyanla Vanzant
There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of… — Walt Whitman
After all, what was the whole wide world but a place for people to yearn for their heart's impossible desires, for those desires to become… — Richard Russo
Creativity is an act of defiance. — Twyla Tharp
Be yourself, don't take anything from anyone, and never let them take you alive. — Gerard Way
Til shade is gone, til water is gone Into the shadow with teeth bared Screaming defiance with the last breath To spit in Sightblinder’s eye… — Robert Jordan
Despereaux marveled at his own bravery. He admired his own defiance. And then, reader, he fainted. — Kate DiCamillo
Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes… — Terry Pratchett
I suppose I'm saying that defiance is actually part of the lyric job — Seamus Heaney
In defiance of Miss Maccalariat I'd like to commit hanky-panky with you, Miss Adora Belle Dearheart... well, certainly hanky, and possibly panky when we get… — Terry Pratchett
Who is left in the ghetto is the one man in a thousand in any age, in any culture, who through some mysterious workings of… — Leon Uris
Youth is insolent; it is its right – its necessity; it has got to assert itself, and all assertion in this world of doubts is… — Joseph Conrad
In all great works of fiction, regardless of the grim reality they present, there is an affirmation of life against the transience of that life,… — Azar Nafisi
To hope under the most extreme circumstances is an act of defiance that permits a person to live his life on his own terms. It… — Jerome Groopman

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