"So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product."

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"Right is its own defense."

Bertolt Brecht, German Poet

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"I think we match up with anybody because our pitching. In a short series you run your big three out there or four out there. That generally is what wins a series - pitching and defense. If we can catch the ball and not give away any runs like we do sometimes."

Dusty Baker, American Athlete

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"These soldiers deserve a better defense secretary than the one we have."

Bill Kristol, American Politician

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

Derek Jeter, American Athlete

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"If we can't find cuts in the defense budget, we're not looking carefully enough."

Jon Huntsman, Jr., American Politician

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

Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, American Statesman

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"The defense of our rights and our dignity, as well as efforts never to let ourselves to be overcome by the feeling of hatred - this is the road we have chosen."

Lech Walesa, Polish Activist

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"I've carried a gun for 10 years. I've carried them in the locker room, and nobody really knows about it. I know how to handle myself, and I stow it away where nobody really knows about it."

Luke Scott, American Athlete

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"It's always great when a defense is able to create turnovers and score. That's something we missed last year. We'd get some turnovers, but we never scored points."

Nick Ferguson, American Athlete

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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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"It's not good enough to give it tender, loving care, to supply it with breakfast foods, to buy it expensive educations. Those things don't mean anything unless this generation has a future. And we're not sure that it does."

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"A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms."

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"The thought that we're in competition with Russians or with Chinese is all a mistake, and trivial. We are one species, with a world to win."

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"It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms."

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"To know reality is to accept it, and eventually to love it."

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"Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited."

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"Our business is with life, not death."

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"We have fallen in love with the body. That's that thing that looks back at us from the mirror. That's the repository of that lovely identity that you keep chasing all your life."

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"As far as I know, the most conservative estimates of the number of Americans who would be killed in a major nuclear attack, with everything working as well as can be hoped and all foreseeable precautions taken, run to about fifty million."

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