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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

~Abraham Joshua Heschel

Topics: Compassion Defiance Despair Done God Greatest Greatest Strength Harm Holds Love Man One Time Others Passion Person Religious Strength Suffers Thought Time Times Who Whose

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If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.

~Abraham Lincoln

Topics: All The World Almighty Architect Beside Boldly Cause Contemplate Country Defiance Deserted Dimensions Elevate Ever Expand Feel Her Lone Me Soul Standing Standing Up Those Unworthy Up Victorious Wholly Within World I Feel

Keywords: Abandon


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Women have to be extremely careful about choosing something that they consider an act of defiance that can really be used to further their enslavement.

~Alice Walker

Topics: About Act Careful Choosing Consider Defiance Enslavement Extremely Further Really Something Used Women

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Being a founder is about being so driven to distraction by the world that you want to put something new in it. It's an act of creation, of irreverence, of defiance, of hope, and arguably one of narcissism.

~Andy Dunn

Topics: About Act Arguably Being Creation Defiance Distraction Driven Founder Hope Narcissism New Put Something Something New Want World You

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I like to joke that I probably hold the world record for rejection letters. Yes, the truth is that I was fed up of being rejected repeatedly, and self-publication was an act of defiance at traditional publishing. But life works in strange ways.

~Ashwin Sanghi

Topics: Act Being Defiance Fed Fed Up Hold Joke Letters Life Like Publishing Record Rejected Rejection Repeatedly Strange Traditional Truth Truth Is Up Ways Works World World Record Yes

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The broad outlines of the Double Cross deception have been known since 1972, when Sir John Masterman, the former chairman of the double agent committee, controversially published his account of the operation in defiance of official secrecy.

~Ben Macintyre

Topics: Account Agent Been Broad Chairman Committee Cross Deception Defiance Double Former His John Known Official Operation Outlines Published Secrecy Since Sir

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I am certain that I speak on behalf of my entire nation when I say: September 11th we are all Americans - in grief, as in defiance.

~Benjamin Netanyahu

Topics: All Americans Am American Behalf Certain Defiance Entire Grief Nation Say September September 11Th Speak I Am

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The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame, - when she has once ceased to blush, it is because she has too much to blush for.

~Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

Topics: Because Blush Bold Certain Defiance Her Much Once Shame She Sign Too Too Much Woman

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Ever since I was a small child, I've had this feeling - it's in my nature, and so it's not even pretentious - that if everyone's going one way, I will go the other, just by some kind of spirit of defiance.

~Charlotte Rampling

Topics: Child Defiance Even Ever Everyone Feeling Go Going Had Just Kind Nature One Way Other Pretentious Since Small Small Child Some Spirit Way Will

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It has been, after all, 11 years, more than a decade now, of defiance of U.N. resolutions by Saddam Hussein. Every obligation that he signed onto after the Gulf War, so that he would not be a threat to peace and security, he has ignored and flaunted.

~Condoleezza Rice

Topics: After Been Decade Defiance Every Gulf Gulf War He Hussein Ignored More Now Obligation Onto Peace Resolutions Saddam Saddam Hussein Security Signed Than Threat War Would Years

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