#defend

You will be pleased to know I stand obediently for the national anthem, though of course I would defend your right to remain seated should you so decide. ↗

— Ira Glasser

#course #decide #defend #i #know

You can't ask every player to do the same thing. That's why we have amazing midfielders, defenders, forwards and keepers. You can't ask them to be of the same mold. ↗

— Tiffeny Milbrett

#ask #defenders #every #forwards #keepers

Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#claims #defend #duty #esteem #gratitude

Our country - whether bounded by the St. John's and the Sabine, or however otherwise bounded or described, and be the measurements more or less; - still our country, to be cherished in all our hearts, and to be defended by all our hands. ↗

— Robert Charles Winthrop

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...I finally went back to my seat in the second row and sat there doing what I've done throughout my professional life: I tried to think, first, how to make credible a somewhat extreme, if not outright ridiculous story, and, next, how, after telling it, to fortify and defend myself from the affronted who read into the story an intention having perhaps to do less with the author's perversity than with their own. ↗

— Philip Roth

#professional-life #to-fortify-and-defend-myself #life

Never think that war is a good thing, grandchildren. Though it may be necessary at times to defend our people, war is a sickness that must be cured. War is a time out of balance. When it is truly over, we must work to restore peace and sacred harmony once again. ↗

— Joseph Bruchac

#peacemaking #war #harmony

You can't defend the indefensible - anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical. ↗

— Diane Abbott

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I think I did very well against everyone who tried to defend me. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#defend #did #everyone #i #i think

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples. ↗

— Amos Bronson Alcott

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The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#defended #encroachments #humanities #need #needed