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"Men make the mistake of thinking that because women can't see the sense in violence, they must be passive creatures. It's just not true. In one important way, at least, men are the passive sex. Given a choice, they will always opt for the status quo. They hate change of any kind, and they fight against it constantly. On the other hand, what women want is stability, which when you stop to think about it is a very different animal." »Eric Lustbader
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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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"passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position." »Bertrand Russell
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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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"To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object." »Simone de Beauvoir
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"Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive." »Mao Zedong
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"A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive." »Erica Jong
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"Watching television as a passive viewer is like going on vacation for a while, and leaving all of the doors to your house unlocked. Any crap that wants to get in - will." »John Rocco Savalli
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"Let no one think of me that I am humble or weak or passive; let them understand I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies, loyal to my friends. To such a life glory belongs." »Euripedes, Medea
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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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"Religion is a defense against the experience of God." »Carl Jung
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"Humor is just another defense against the universe." »Mel Brooks
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"A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense." »American Proverb
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"Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its one sure defense." »Mark Twain
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"We [Jews] have no other means of self-defense than our solidarity" »Albert Einstein
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"Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused." »King Charles I
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"It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country." »Homer
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"The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders." »Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989)
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"Qaddafi counted on America to be passive. He counted wrong." »Ronald Reagan
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"I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, and receives new truth as an angel from Heaven." »Woody Allen
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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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"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue." »Barry Goldwater
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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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"For target shooting, that's okay. Get a license and go to the range. For defense of the home, that's why we have police departments." »James Brady
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"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue." »Barry Goldwater
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