#defend

Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America's servicemen and women. ↗

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

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Everybody certainly has the right to defend themselves. That's not to say that they should defy common sense by avoiding or diffusing confrontation. And that's very, very important. ↗

— Steven Seagal

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The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this way, it does a good job; but its defenders are wrong in assuming it always works this way. ↗

— Richard Stallman

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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill. ↗

— Jock Sturges

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Although I never publicly defended promiscuity, I never publicly attacked it. I attempted to avoid the subject, in part because I felt, and often still feel, unable to live up to the ideals I really hold. ↗

— Andrew Sullivan

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There'll come a writing phase where you have to defend the time, unplug the phone and put in the hours to get it done. ↗

— James Taylor

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While we do not ask for accolades, we must defend ourselves from repeated public attacks. ↗

— Andrew Thomas

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My thought has always been completion. Maybe you have to rebound better, shoot better, hit free throws, handle the ball, defend better. You have to do all those things in the course of a game. ↗

— Isaiah Thomas

#ball #been #better #completion #course

May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping. ↗

— J. Reuben Clark

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