Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:Wars are caused by undefended wealth.[Ernest Hemingway] Quote:The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.[GK Chesterton] Quote:To defend Western Europe we have to let the Pentagon buy all these tanks and guns and things, and the Pentagon is unable to buy any object that that costs less than a condominium in Vail. If the Pentagon needs, say, fruit, it will argue that it must have fruit that can withstand the rigors of combat conditions, and it will wind up purchasing the FX-700 Seedless Tactical Grape, which will cost $160,000 per bunch, and will have an 83 percent failure rate.[Dave Barry] Quote:They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.[Edmund Burke] Quote:God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.[Daniel Webster] Quote:Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] Quote:The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. [Amos Bronson Alcott] Quote:Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status. [Laurence J. Peter] Definitions of: defendDefinition: To ward or fend off; to drive back or away; to repel.Definition: To prohibit; to forbid. Definition: To repel danger or harm from; to protect; to secure against attack; to maintain against force or argument; to uphold; to guard; as, to defend a town; to defend a cause; to defend character; to defend the absent; -- sometimes followed by from or against; as, to defend one's self from, or against, one's enemies. Definition: To deny the right of the plaintiff in regard to (the suit, or the wrong charged); to oppose or resist, as a claim at law; to contest, as a suit. |
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