#fend

This is a revolution, damnit! We're going to have to offend somebody! ↗

— Peter Stone

#offend #revolution #somebody

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

— Jock Sturges

#became #concerned #defending #far #good

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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For if the Germans do not help defend the West, American and Canadian troops must cross the seas to do the job, and I venture to believe that the troops - if not the statesmen - regard this as an interference at least in their own domestic affairs. ↗

— Arthur Hays Sulzberger

#american #believe #canadian #cross #defend

Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#bad manners #company #example #flatter #flattery

The generality have considered that disease is but a confused and disordered effort in Nature, thrown down from her proper state, and defending herself in vain. ↗

— Thomas Sydenham

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We all want to be someone else but without ceasing to be ourselves. I think it's very important to defend this idea in real life too. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

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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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Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers. ↗

— Tecumseh

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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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