"I defied the machinery to make me its……" — Lucy Larcom

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• Begum Hazrat Mahal of Oudh was the last of the breed of able queens and generals. The queen led her… — Qurratulain Hyder
• Biblical backing for Mormon behavior is easy to find, although Mark Twain is reported to have denied its legitimacy to… — Dennis McKinsey
• Just two weeks ago, millions of Iraqis defied the threats of terrorists and went to the polls to determine their… — Bill Frist
• How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and… — Robert J. Sawyer
• My father's mother, my Grandmother Young, was said by the family to have talked herself to death. Convalescing from a… — Stark Young
• If I were a woman I would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleased me, complexions that… — William Shakespeare
• I think that standing onstage on January 19th, and my father had just defied all expectations and won Iowa, was… — Vanessa Kerry
• The Germans could not get over the perfidy of it. It was unbelievable that the English, having degenerated to the… — Barbara Tuchman
• He was so tenacious he defied the distraction of women by refusing to have them in his presence, just as… — Kit Williams
• I settled in with The Uninvited Guests thinking I knew what kind of Edwardian pleasures were in store: the fraught… — Maile Meloy
• Now let me be clear - I suffer no illusions about Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal man. A ruthless… — Barack Obama
• Dizzee's just my childhood hero. He's definitely the inspiration. He's got himself to a very good place. He's defied the… — Tinie Tempah

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