"Defiance rose up like vomit. I swung back……" — Ellen Hopkins

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• The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be… — Hannah Arendt
• There comes a time when deceit and defiance must be seen for what they are. At that point, a gathering… — Dick Cheney
• Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active,… — Mahatma Gandhi
• There are no green thumbs or black thumbs. There are only gardeners and non-gardeners. Gardeners are the ones who ruin… — Henry Mitchell
• From the explanatory notes that Willson wrote to accompany his symphony, A Symphony of San Francisco,: "Generally speaking, the first… — Meredith Willson
• My life's been too much of a self-created vocation. And there are times when I think I've done everything in… — Anne Rice
• I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a… — Thomas Jefferson
• I soon found that wit, like every other power, has its boundaries; that its success depends upon the aptitude of… — Samuel Johnson
• American citizens are instrumental in carrying on a traffic in enslaved Africans, equally in violation of the laws of humanity… — James Madison
• To look for a continuation in harmony between a number of independent unconnected sovereignties, situated in the same neighborhood, would… — Alexander Hamilton
• Earth has cooled since 1998 in defiance of the predictions by the UN-IPCC....The global temperature for 2007 was the coldest… — Unknown Author
• We are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed in defiance of international good… — H. H. Asquith

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