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“All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity.”
Derek Jarman quotes (British Film Director, Artist and Author, b.1942)

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“I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.”
Robert Burns quotes (Scottish national Poet of Scotland, who wrote lyrics and songs in the Scottish dialect of English. 1759-1796)
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“I've learned you can make a mistake and the whole world doesn't end. I had to learn to allow myself to make a mistake without becoming defensive and unforgiving.”
santiz Lisa Kudrow quotes (American Actress on TV Show 'Friends', b.1963)
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“Self-discipline, although difficult, and not always easy while combating negative emotions, should be a defensive measure. At least we will be able to prevent the advent of negative conduct dominated by negative emotion. That is 'shila', or moral ethics. Once we develop this by familiarizing ourselves with it, along with mindfulness and conscientiousness, eventually that pattern and way of life will become a part of our own life.”
gotaro Dalai Lama quotes (Head of the Dge-lugs-pa order of Tibetan Buddhists, 1989 Nobel Peace Prize, b.1935)
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“It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.”
Jawaharlal Nehru quotes (Indian Prime Minister. 1889-1964)
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“You have the need and the right to spend part of your life caring for your soul. It is not easy. You have to resist the demands of the work-oriented, often defensive, element in your psyche that measures life only in terms of output -- how much you produce -- not in terms of the quality of your life experiences. To be a soulful person means to go against all the pervasive, prove-yourself values of our culture and instead treasure what is unique and internal and valuable in yourself and your own personal evolution.”
Jean Shinoda Bolen quotes
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“Nature in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, every specimen becomes a relic.”
Susan Sontag quotes (American Writer, Activist and Critic, 1933-2004)

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“I loved to make a great defensive play, I'd rather do that than hit a home run.”
Bill Dickey quotes (American Baseball Player. 1907-1993)
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“Encryption...is a powerful defensive weapon for free people. It offers a technical guarantee of privacy, regardless of who is running the government... It's hard to think of a more powerful, less dangerous tool for liberty.”
Esther Dyson quotes (Swiss computer Publisher (Release 1.0), b.1951)

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“Nothing is more idealistic than a journalist on the defensive.”
Melvin Maddocks quotes

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