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«I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.»
Author: Clara Barton (Nurse) | Keywords: defied, defy, disregard, disregarded, disregarding, disregards, for anything, go for, irritate, irritated, irritates, I go, possibility, precedent
«Ancient person, for whom IAll the flattering youth defy,Long be it ere thou grow old,Aching, shaking, crazy, cold;But still continue as thou art,Ancient person of my heart.»
Author: John Wilmot (2nd Earl of Rochester) (Poet) | Keywords: aching, defy, flattering, shaking
«To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy power which seems omnipotent; To love, and bear; to hope till Hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley (Poet) | About: Forgiveness, Hope, Love, Suffering | Keywords: contemplated, contemplates, creates, darker, defied, defy, infinite, omnipotent, the Wrecks, till, woes, wreck, wrecking, wrongs
«It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now this dogma would make it impossible for me to be a Roman Catholic. If I thought of God as another being like myself, outside myself, only infinitely more powerful, then I would regard it as my duty to defy him.»
Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein | Keywords: Catholic, Catholic churches, defy, dogma, existence of God, roman, Roman Catholic, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Church, the existence of God, The Roman Catholic Church
«You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte (Emperor, General, Politician) | Keywords: defied, defy, drive, lads, must not, ranked, ranking, ranks, The Enemy, you-drive
«I defy you to agitate any fellow with a full stomach.»
Author: William Cobbett | Keywords: agitate, agitated, agitates, agitating, defy
«And David spake to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God? / And the people answered him after this manner, saying, So shall it be done to the man that killeth him.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: defy, Philistine
«One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The very working of this economic system, which has bestowed these unprecedented liberties, most cherished in the form of physical mobility and material prosperity, depends on encouraging people to defy limits.»
Author: Susan Sontag (Activist, Critic, Writer) | Keywords: amuse, bestowed, cherished, consume, defy, economic system, encouraging, liberties, messages, mobility, unprecedented
«What, man! defy the Devil: consider, he is an enemy to mankind.»
Author: William Shakespeare (Dramatist, Playwright, Poet) | Keywords: defied, defy
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