Defense Quotes - Page 34

• It is not overwhelmingly difficult for a committed group of players with only average individual basketball skills to put together a very good team defense.

  Del Harris

  Basketball, Team, Player

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• For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.

  Dante Alighieri

  Power, Evil, Instruments

  Dante Alighieri, John Ciardi (1954). “The inferno”, Signet

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• The word of God is the Christian soul's best weapon, and it is essential to have it with him always. In doubt it decides, in consultation it directs; in anxiety it reassures; in sorrow it comforts; in failure it encourages; in defense it protects; in offense it is mightier than the mighty.

  Wilfred Grenfell

  God, Christian, Anxiety

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• ...chess is "a lot like football because you have to set up your offense and your defense, every once in a while you need to give up a piece of your team in order to make the big play. It's a game of patience, and that pretty much defines how I run the ball. I'm patient, always looking for the opportunity and always trying to capitalize on the other person's mistake."

  Priest Holmes

  Sports, Football, Running

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• "Chess has definitely helped me understand a lot of the strategy of football. In chess, good offense is often an exercise in putting multiple points of pressure on one square. In football, offensive play design (particularly passes) involves putting multiple points of pressure on one player." "In chess, you often give your opponent a move that looks strong for him, but it turns into a trap. Football is the same way. I've always thought of defense in football as being totally reactive. But now I understand the ways in which football defenses force the offense to make certain choices."

  Reggie Rivers

  Sports, Football, Strong

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• The strategies of offense and defense are very similar between chess and football. Chess really brought closeness to the team back in those days.

  Rubin Carter

  Sports, Football, Team

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• Unprecedented warnings by officials most closely linked with nuclear arms negotiations and defense strategy indicate that we are running out of time. If we fail to act soon, the scars of a major nuclear disaster will mark our immediate and distant future.

  Alan Cranston

  Running, Nuclear Disarmament, Warning

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• The journey to wholeness requires that you look honestly, openly, and with courage into yourself, into the dynamics that lie behind what you feel, what you perceive, what you value, and how you act. It is a journey through your defenses and beyond, so that you can experience consciously the nature of your personality, face what it has produced in your life, and choose to change that. Words lead to deeds. They prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness.

  Gary Zukav

  Courage, Lying, Moving

  Gary Zukav (1999). “The Seat of the Soul”, G K Hall & Company

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• The nuclear bomb is the most useless weapon ever invented. It can be employed to no rational purpose. It is not even an effective defense against itself.

  George F. Kennan

  Nuclear, Purpose, Bombs

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• I talked to General Downer about some of the funding about the National Guard and some of the civil defense workers, the firefighters, the police officers, and the way that FEMA is making them spend that money. We have got a problem there.

  Lynn Westmoreland

  Money, Firefighter, Police

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• Anxiety is good for nothing if we can't turn it into a defense.

  Samuel Rush Meyrick

  Anxiety, Anticipation, Turns

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• The woman who cannot tell a lie in defense of her husband, is unworthy of the name of wife.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Husband, Women, Lying

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• Citizens of the democratic societies should undertake a course of intellectual self defense to protect themselves from manipulation and control, and to lay the basis for meaningful democracy.

  Noam Chomsky

  Meaningful, Self, Intellectual

  Noam Chomsky (1989). “Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies”, p.8, Pluto Press

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• I think there's a vast difference between the Big12 and some of the other major conferences. I think it is tougher to score in this conference, just because of the emphasis on defense.

  Eddie Sutton

  Thinking, Differences, Score

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• Be mild and firm. Apply your best exertions to put us in a proper posture of defense.

  Edward Rutledge

  Posture, Firm, Exertion

  "John and Edward Rutledge of South Carolina". Book by James Haw, p. 269, 1997.

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• Not much longer shall we have time for reading lessons of the past. An inexorable present calls us to the defense of a great future.

  Henry R. Luce

  Reading, Past, Lessons

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• During Richard Nixon’s first term, when I served as secretary of defense, we withdrew U.S. forces from Vietnam while building up the South’s ability to defend itself. The result was a success - until Congress snatched defeat from the jaws of victory by cutting off funding for our ally in 1975. Washington should follow a similar strategy now, but this time finish the job properly.

  Melvin Laird

  Jobs, Cutting, Building Up

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• Neurotic identity crises come when our defense mechanisms have been too successful and we're encapsulated in the fortress we have constructed with nothing to refresh us in our solitary confinement. So we play the old movies with their stale fears and their unrealistic hopes until we become bored enough to risk disarmament and engagement.

  Sam Keen

  Successful, Play, Bored

  Sam Keen (1980). “What to do when you're bored and blue”

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• Life is terrorism, so spare me your indignation. Life is one big infiltration of our secure defenses. Some people put bombs on buses and blow them up: those are terrorists. Some people speak to you and their words blow you up: what would you call those people? Life is a condemned cell. . . . That's the only way to protect yourself . . . to understand that you're always under sentence of death and to try to get a temporary remission.

  Matt Rees

  Blow, Cells, People

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• We are the only people on Earth asked to guarantee the security of our occupier...while Israel is the only country that calls for defense from its victims.

  Hanan Ashrawi

  Country, War, Israel

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• You have chosen to risk your lives for the defense of this country. I will not insult you by saying that you are dedicated to selfless service--it is not a virtue in my morality. In my morality, the defense of one's country means that a man is personally unwilling to live as the conquered slave of any enemy, foreign or domestic. This is an enormous virtue.

  Ayn Rand

  Country, Mean, Men

  Ayn Rand (1984). “Philosophy: Who Needs It”, p.18, Penguin

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• I got into cooking out of self-defense.

  Mark Bittman

  Self, Cooking, Self Defense

  "Mark Bittman’s answers to our food questions". Q&As, blog.seattlepi.com. January 10, 2009.

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• Satan's number one weapon is pride. God's number one defense is humility.

  Larry Burkett

  Humility, Pride, Numbers

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• Satan knows that the nature of humankind is to act out of how we feel rather than what we know. One of our most important defenses against satanic influence will be learning how to behave out of what we know is truth rather than what we feel.

  Beth Moore

  Important, Satanic, Influence

  Beth Moore (2002). “When Godly People Do Ungodly Things: Finding Authentic Restoration in the Age of Seduction”, p.22, B&H Publishing Group

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• You know all the money we spend on nuclear weapons and defence every year? Trillions of dollars? Correct? Trillions. Instead, if we spent that money feeding and clothing the poor of the world,which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, not one, we could, as one race, explore outer space together in peace forever

  Bill Hicks

  Years, Space, Race

  "Love All the People". New Edition,

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