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I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world’s muteness.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Defiance is beautiful. The defiance of power, especially great or overwhelming power, exalts and glorifies the rebel.
Edward Abbey
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Well, there's been plenty of ultimatums, and one thing that we better be very clear is that we can't continue to have the kind of defiance of the United Nations, the defiance of the international community that we've had.
Condoleezza Rice
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As a democratic Socialist profoundly committed to the rule of law, I could not condone, let alone encourage, defiance of the law.
Anthony Crosland
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When you create something new, you're breaking tradition - which is an act of defiance.
Steven Strogatz
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Despereaux marveled at his own bravery. He admired his own defiance. And then, reader, he fainted.
Kate DiCamillo
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In the end, it is our defiance that redeems us. If wolves had a religion – if there was a religion of the wolf – that it is what it would tell us.
Mark Rowlands
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Our nation is founded on the principal that observance of the law is the eternal safeguard of liberty and defiance of the law is the surest road to tyranny.
John F. Kennedy
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Imagination is intervention, an act of defiance. It alters belief.
David Mura
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There is no "beginning" of feminism in the sense that there is no beginning to defiance in women.
Sheila Rowbotham
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The United States is going to continue to punish Iran because of its defiance.
Noam Chomsky
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I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.
Andre Gide
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I suppose I'm saying that defiance is actually part of the lyric job
Seamus Heaney
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Defiance rose up like vomit. I swung back and yelled, "Don't ever do that again!
Ellen Hopkins
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... it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
George Eliot
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Civil disobedience is the core of American defiance against kings and emperors.
Ted Nugent
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It was during the Reagan years that defiance of international law and the U.N. Charter became entirely open.
Noam Chomsky
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In defiance of Miss Maccalariat I'd like to commit hanky-panky with you, Miss Adora Belle Dearheart... well, certainly hanky, and possibly panky when we get to know one another better.
Terry Pratchett
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The modern moralists extol ... the cult of practical activity in defiance of the disinterested life.
Julien Benda