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• When Eve dropped her shield of faith, every other piece of her spiritual armor became vulnerable.

  Beth Moore

  Spiritual, Pieces, Shields

  Beth Moore (2008). “Believing God Day by Day: Growing Your Faith All Year Long”, p.4, B&H Publishing Group

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• Niceness is the psychological armor of the people-pleaser.

  Harriet B. Braiker

  People, Psychological, Niceness

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• Assault weapons—just like armor-piercing bullets, machine guns, and plastic firearms—are a new topic. The weapons' menacing looks, coupled with the public's confusion over fully automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic assault weapons—anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine gun—can only increase the chance of public support for restrictions on these weapons. In addition, few people can envision a practical use for these weapons.

  Josh Sugarmann

  Gun, Assault Weapons, Confusion

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• Sometimes you don't really need armor to feel protected. Sometimes maybe you need just a chiffon dress to hug you.

  Alber Elbaz

  Hug, Dresses, Needs

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• As the sun fell below the horizon, Sir Luckless emerged from the waters with the glory of his triumph upon him, and flung himself in his rusted armor at the feet of Amata, who was the kindest and most beautiful woman he had ever beheld. Flushed with success, he begged for her hand and her heart, and Amata, no less delighted, realized that she had found a man worthy of them.

  J. K. Rowling

  Beautiful, Heart, Men

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• I see BOLD accessories as a woman's armor.

  Rachel Zoe

  Accessories

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• There is something about a well-fitted modern jacket that feels like armor. If it's cut well, it adds a dose of cool to anything you wear it with and does the heavy lifting when it comes to creating a flattering shape.

  Stacy London

  Cutting, Creating, Doe

  Stacy London (2012). “The Truth About Style Deluxe”, p.49, Penguin

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• Dharma is not about credentials. It's not about how many practices you've done, or how peaceful you can make your mind. It's not about being in a community where you feel safe or enjoying the cachet of being a 'Buddhist.' It's not even about accumulating teachings, empowerments, or 'spiritual accomplishments.' It's about how naked you're willing to be with your own life, and how much you're willing to let go of your masks and your armor and live as a completely exposed, undefended, and open human person.

  Reginald Ray

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Buddhist

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• I've got this." Apollo stepped forward. His fiery armor was so bright it was hard to look at, and his matching Ray-Bans and perfect smile made him look like a male model for battle gear. "God of medicine, at your service.

  Rick Riordan

  Medicine, Perfect, Battle

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• With so much sky and so much river, you couldn't help seeing the big picture. It was what you already knew, but crowding into the subway or rushing to a movie, you only saw it for a second, and close up. Now I took a good long look. I'd always heard you couldn't see stars in Manhattan because of all the lights. But here they all were. Here was my night in shining armor.

  Melissa Bank

  Stars, Night, Light

  Melissa Bank (2006). “The Wonder Spot”, p.313, Penguin

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• The making presents to a lady one addresses is like throwing armor into an enemy's camp, with a resolution to recover it.

  William Shenstone

  Enemy, Addresses, Resolution

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.177

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• It is resignation and contentment that are best calculated to lead us safely through life. Whoever has not sufficient power to endure privations, and even suffering, can never feel that he is armor proof against painful emotions,--nay, he must attribute to himself, or at least to the morbid sensitiveness of his nature, every disagreeable feeling he may suffer.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Feelings, Suffering, Contentment

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• He stripped off the armor of institutional friendships To dedictate his soul To the terrible deities of Truth and Beauty.

  Edgar Lee Masters

  Soul, Atheism, Deities

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• All men begin as good men. What they are taught as children, what is expected of them as young men, is either the armor about that goodness or the flaw that allows evil in.

  David Weber

  Children, Men, Evil

  David Weber (2008). “Off Armageddon Reef”, p.250, Macmillan

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• Just as armor protects the soldier, spiritual knowledge protects us from the difficulties of life.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Soldier, Protect

  Twitter post from May 29, 2014

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• I have my books And my poetry to protect me; I am shielded in my armor, Hiding in my room, safe within my womb. I touch no one and no one touches me. I am a rock, I am an island.

  Paul Simon

  Book, Islands, Rocks

  Song: I Am a Rock, Album: The Paul Simon Songbook

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• Lynet scowled. "I’m just so tired of young knights wearing their father’s armor and dreaming romantic dreams riding up to their death.

  Gerald Morris

  Dream, Father, Tired

  Gerald Morris (2008). “The Savage Damsel and the Dwarf”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One day I would have all the books in the world, shelves and shelves of them. I would live my life in a tower of books. I would read all day long and eat peaches. And if any young knights in armor dared to come calling on their white chargers and plead with me to let down my hair, I would pelt them with peach pits until they went home.

  Jacqueline Kelly

  Book, Home, Knights

  Jacqueline Kelly (2009). “The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate”, p.16, Henry Holt and Company (BYR)

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• Postmodernism does not facilitate better art. It rationalizes inferior art by wrapping it in words - a suit of armor with nobody inside.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Suits Of Armor, Doe

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• The mind of the scholar, if you would have it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds. It is better that his armor should be somewhat bruised by rude encounters even, than hang forever rusting on the wall.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Wall, Knowledge, Rude

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1866). “Hyperion”, p.79

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• The world that I should wish to see would be one freed from the virulence of group hostilities and capable of realizing that happiness for all is to be derived rather from co-operation than from strife. I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than imprisoning the minds of the young in rigid armor of dogma calculated to protect them through life against the shafts of impartial evidence.

  Bertrand Russell

  Mind, Wish, World

  Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Most people, when directly confronted by evidence that they are wrong, do not change their point of view or course of action but justify it even more tenaciously. Even irrefutable evidence is rarely enough to pierce the mental armor of self-justification.

  Carol Tavris

  Self, Views, People

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• Misanthropy is a suit of armor lined with thorns.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Suits Of Armor, Thorns, Misanthropy

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1994). “Aphorisms”, Ariadne Press (CA)

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• When you cast somebody you cast them not only for... I look for an inherent kind of quality. You are going to be shooting 14 hour days and you are going to be tired. You are going to not necessarily be able to conjure armor or a façade every single moment.

  David Fincher

  Single Mom, Tired, Quality

  Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 19, 2011.

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• I saw what I had been fighting for: It was for me, a scared child, who had run away a long time ago to what I had imagined was a safer place. And hiding in this place, behind my invisible barriers, I knew what lay on the other side: Her side attacks. Her secret weapons. Her uncanny ability to find my weakest spots. But in the brief instant that I had peered over the barriers I could finally see what was finally there: an old woman, a wok for her armor, a knitting needle for her sword, getting a little crabby as she waited patiently for her daughter to invite her in.

  Amy Tan

  Running, Daughter, Children

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.183, Penguin

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