"Defense is superior to opulence."

Defence, Defense

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"Our Jawans have the full freedom to do as they deem appropriate. They have been answering and will continue to answer in an appropriate language. We are very proud of our Jawans for their courage."

Narendra Modi, Indian Leader

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"That's how you win - pitching and defense."

Derek Jeter, American Athlete

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"Every state has not only the right but the duty to make adequate provision for its own defense in the way it thinks best, providing it does not do so at the expense of any other state."

Lester B. Pearson, Canadian Politician

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"Surely the Department of Defense can and needs to do a better job of training new and existing first responders to respond to sexual assaults occurring in the military."

Louise Slaughter, American Politician

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"However, the Department of Defense treats these detainees in accord with the Geneva Convention, even though that is not required because of the inhumane methods used by these killers."

Bill Shuster, American Politician

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"I still feel like I can play defense at first base at a very high level."

Rafael Palmeiro, Cuban Athlete

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"Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute."

Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, American Statesman

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"They scored 26 points in three quarters. That's solid defense."

Bill Laimbeer, American Coach

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"There is no defense against a perfect pass. I can throw the perfect pass."

Dan Marino, American Athlete

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"That is why it is so important not only to have excellent treatment but also to try to get back the immune defense, because there you have a natural defense that takes place everywhere."

Luc Montagnier, French Scientist

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"As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce."

Love, Men, Country, Land

"Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty."

Adventure, Certainty

"To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature."

Nature, Exercise, Humannature, Perfection

"Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God."

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"Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased."

Money, Wealth, First, Gold

"It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country."

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"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest."

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"Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence."

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"Defense is superior to opulence."

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"I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good."

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