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Each had defended his own country; the Germans Germany, the Frenchmen France; they had done their duty. ↗

— Ernst Toller

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I started the 1998 World Cup with Teddy Sheringham up front but always planned for Michael Owen to face Colombia in our final group game because they defended square and a quick striker would be able to exploit the space behind them. ↗

— Glenn Hoddle

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In 1947 I defended my thesis on nuclear physics, and in 1948 I was included in a group of research scientists whose task was to develop nuclear weapons. ↗

— Andrei Sakharov

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

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

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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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I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers. ↗

— Georg Cantor

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For God is my witness that I neither preached, affirmed, nor defended them, though they say that I did. ↗

— Jan Hus

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I have always defended my convictions and what I believed to be the truth. ↗

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

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History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

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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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