#defends

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

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This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read. ↗

— Winston Churchill

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The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read. ↗

— Winston Churchill

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A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences. ↗

— Amos Bronson Alcott

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A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. ↗

— Annie Dillard

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The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views. ↗

— Maimonides

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The scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

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A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. ↗

— William Penn

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Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

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Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium. ↗

— Nathalie Sarraute

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