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"...it is a base thing to look to others for your defense instead of depending upon yourself. That defense alone is effectual, sure, and durable which depends upon yourself and your own valor." »Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
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"Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order." »Albert Einstein
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"A politician will always tip off his true belief by stating the opposite at the beginning of the sentence. For maximum comprehension, do not start listening until the first clause is concluded. Begin instead at the word "but" which begins the second, or active, clause. This is the way to tell a liberal from a conservative -- before they tell you.
Thus: "I have always believed in a strong national defense, second to none, but ... " (a liberal, about to propose a $20 billion defense cut)." »Frank Mankiewicz
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"How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems." »Robert Southey
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"The heavy is the root of the light. The tranquil is the ruler of the hasty." »Lao Tzu
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"Affairs succeed by patience, and he that is hasty falleth headlong." »Sa?di
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"Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry for anger resteth in the bosom of fools." »Ecclesiastes 79 Bible Hebrew
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"Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality they discourse like angels, but they live like men." »Samuel Johnson
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"There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued." »Thomas Huxley
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"Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods." »Seneca
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"Be not too hasty either with praise or blame speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods." »Seneca
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"One cool judgment is worth a dozen hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat." »Woodrow Wilson
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"I love all beauteous things, I seek and adore them God hath no better praise, And man in his hasty days Is honored for them." »Robert Bridges
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"One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing is to supply light and not heat" »Woodrow Wilson
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"What passing bells for these who die as cattleOnly the monstrous anger of the guns.Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattleCan patter out their hasty orisons." »Wilfred Owen
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"The best defense against the atom bomb is not to be there when it goes off." »Anonymous
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"Humor is just another defense against the universe." »Mel Brooks
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"Religion is a defense against the experience of God." »Carl Jung
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"The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders." »Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989)
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"A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense." »American Proverb
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"Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused." »King Charles I
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"We [Jews] have no other means of self-defense than our solidarity" »Albert Einstein
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"It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country." »Homer
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"Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its one sure defense." »Mark Twain
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"The woman who cannot tell a lie in defense of her husband is unworthy of the name of wife." »Elbert Hubbard
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"My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense." »Fred Allen
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"A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles." »Mignon McLaughlin
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"Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense" »Patrick Henry
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"If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions, then you are forever chained to a position of defense." »Holly Lisle
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"Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense." »Mark A. Overby
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