"Perverseness is your whole defence."

-- Jonathan Swift

#Defence Quotes

“Challenge yourself; itâ€™s the only path which leads to growth.”
“She knew, of course that she was being supremely unfair, that Franz was the best man she ever had- he was intelligent, he understood her paintings, he was handsome and good-but the more she thought about it, the more she longed to ravish his intelligence, defile his kindheartedness, and violate his powerless strength”
“I'm the guy that made Joe DiMaggio famous.”
“Economists have the correct insight that economics is a theory of choice, the key to the story is the variety of options and centralised political control limits the options. The best recipe is adaptive efficiency coping with novel uncertainty in a non-ergodic world, the maintenance of institutions which enable trial & error experiment to occur, and an effective means of eliminating unsuccessful solutions”
“Understand and be confident that each of us can make a difference by caring and acting in small as well as big ways.”
“Victory is in having done your best. If you've done your best, you've won.”
“We think a person should do right because it's right, not because their soul will be in eternal jeopardy if they don't toe the line.”

Source : Gini Koch (2010). “Touched by an Alien”, p.123, Penguin
“Being a complete juvenile delinquent helped me grow up a little.”

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