Defence Quotes
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Nothing 'gainst Times scythe can make defence.
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This WorldHealthDay we celebrate and honour healthcare workers, who are our first line of defence against the #coronavirus. Your work has been relentless, courageous and critical in saving lives. We want you to feel safe and stay well. For that you need protection.
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Courage will now be your best defence against the storm that is at hand-—that and such hope as I bring.
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We stand with Israel because your cause is our cause, your values are our values, and your fight is our fight.
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Offensive operations, often times, is the surest, if not the only means of defence.
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Like mortars in old war films, they are often ready to destroy the opponent's unsupported defences.
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When I first came to Arsenal, I realised the back four were all university graduates in the art of defending. As for Tony Adams, I consider him to be a doctor of defence. He is simply outstanding.
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...we benignly wish that all and each of the natives of the kingdom who will subject themselves willingly to us, as the true King of France according to wise counsel, before next Easter, offering due fidelity etc. to us, as King of France, performing their duties...should be admitted to our peace and grace and to our special protection and defence.
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The best defense against logic is ignorance.
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Books are the greatest and the most satisfactory of recreations. I mean the use of books for pleasure. Without books, without having acquired the power of reading for pleasure, none of us can be independent, but if we can read we have a sure defence against boredom in solitude.
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...our progenitors, the kings of England, have before these times been lords of the English sea on every side...and it would very much grieve us if in this kind of defence our royal honour should be lost.
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When Alekhine recognizes the weakness in his position he has a tendency to become very aggressive. Patient defence is not for him if he can see the slightest chance of creating an attack. Yet sound strategy often demands that you submit to the opponent's will so as to strengthen your weaknesses and get rid of defects in your game.
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Sadness is also a kind of defence.
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There is something different between defence deal and deal in defence.
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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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Do not fear or misunderstand when the Government say they are looking to our defences. I give you my word that there will be no great armaments.
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Closeness means you get hurt; closeness means letting down your defences and letting people see the tender skin under the carapace.
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It is annoying that the rules of chess do not allow a pawn to take either horizontally or backwards, but only forwards ... This psychological tuning is ideal for attacking purposes, but what about for defence?
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Whether each of the faithful has a particular angel assigned him for his defence, I cannot venture certainly to affirm... not one angel only has the care of every one of us, but that they all with one consent watch for our salvation.
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I would, therefore, say that for no reason whatsoever, except in self-defense, should one think of killing any animal.
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I make terrible jokes every time I go into a hospital. I think it's a defence mechanism.
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Its subject is the slow and erratic process by which the peoples of the British Isles learnt - and then for long periods forgot - about the 'Safeguard of the Sea', as the 15th century phrase had it, meaning the use of the sea for national defence, and the defence of those who used the sea.
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One of the most powerful defences the media can offer for controversial actions is, of course, public interest.
