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• Chaos claims the unwary or the incomplete. A true man may flinch away its embrace, if he is stalwart, and he girds his soul with the armour of contempt.

  Dan Abnett

  Men, Soul, May

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• An artist feels vulnerable to begin with; and yet the only answer is to recklessly discard more armour.

  Eric Maisel

  Artist, Answers, Vulnerable

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• There are men whom one hates until a certain moment when one sees, through a chink in their armour, the writhing of something nailed down and in torment.

  Gerald Kersh

  Hate, Men, Down And

  Gerald Kersh, Simon Raven (1960). “The Best of Gerald Kersh”

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• Let no one consider themselves to be the 'armour' of God while planning and carrying out acts of violence and oppression!

  Pope Francis

  Violence, Planning, Oppression

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• All these portrayals we see of knights fighting must be absolute rubbish because knights in armour could literally have only had two or three blows and then they'd have had to sit down to have a cup of tea.

  Mark Strong

  Fighting, Blow, Knights

  "Robin Hood star Mark Strong: 'Real knights would have needed tea breaks'". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. May 8, 2010.

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• Love that I bear
  within my breast
  how is my armour melted
  how my heart

  Hilda Doolittle

  Love, Heart, Bears

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.137, New Directions Publishing

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• Satan's time of tempting is usually after an ordinance; and the reason is, because then he thinks he shall find us most secure. When we have been at solemn duties, we are apt to think all is done, and we grow remiss, and leave off that zeal and strictness as before; just as a soldier, who after a battle leaves off his armour, not once dreaming, of an enemy. Satan watches his time, and when we least suspect, then he throws in a temptation.

  Thomas Watson

  Dream, Prayer, Thinking

  Thomas Watson (2015). “All Things for Good”, p.21, Ravenio Books

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• We're growing up with a very illiterate bunch of children who have somehow been taught that film is fact when, in fact, it's invention. Hopefully, an historical film will inspire people to go and read about the history but in the end it is a work of fiction and selection. As for the armour itself, no it wasn't particularly comfortable.

  Cate Blanchett

  Children, Growing Up, People

  "Elizabeth: The Golden Age - Cate Blanchett interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• A man in armour is his armour's slave.

  Robert Browning

  Men, Slave

  Robert Browning (2015). “Complete Plays of Robert Browning”, p.695, e-artnow sro

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• Our enemies are on every side, so must our armour be.

  William Gurnall

  Enemy, Sides

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• Another priest said,"Is it true you've said you'll believe in any god whose existence can be proved by logical debate?""Yes."Vimes had a feeling about the immediate future and took a few steps away from Dorfl."But the gods plainly do exist," said a priest."It Is Not Evident."A bolt of lightning lanced down through the clouds and hit Dorfl's helmet. There was a sheet of flame and then a trickling noise. Dorfl's molten armour formed puddles around his white-hot feet."I Don't Call That Much Of An Argument," said Dorfl calmly, from somewhere in the clouds of smoke.

  Terry Pratchett

  Believe, White, Feet

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• God can never entrust His Kingdom to anyone who has not been broken of pride, for pride is the armour of darkness itself.

  Francis Frangipane

  Pride, Broken, Darkness

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• I dress for the occasion. I like Tom Ford for more formal, especially his suits, and I wear a lot of Under Armour for my athletic gear. I also love Rag & Bone.

  Tom Brady

  Athletic, Gears, Suits

  "#mancrushmonday: Tom Brady". Interview with Romy Oltuski, www.harpersbazaar.com. May 23, 2016.

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• It's absurd to warme one in his armour.

  George Herbert

  Absurd

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.353

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• One of the laws of paleontology is that an animal which must protect itself with thick armour is degenerate. It is usually a sign that the species is on the road to extinction.

  John Steinbeck

  Animal, Law, Paleontology

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• All we're trying to do is change how people think about fitness. And build Under Armour into the biggest brand in the entire land.

  Kevin Plank

  Thinking, Land, People

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• The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings. Scepter and crown must tumble down, And, in the dust, be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.

  James Shirley

  Kings, Fate, Dust

  'The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses' (1659) act 1, sc. 3

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• I was terribly shy and never said anything in class. Then I started getting into school plays. When you've got words to say, you've got a sort of armour.

  Nigel Rees

  School, Class, Play

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• Boasting, like gilded armour, is very different inside from outside.

  Diogenes

  Ego, Different, Boast

  "Anthology (Book 3)". Book by Joannes Stobaeus, 1536.

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• There are always those who would put on armour and go into battle. but the real genius is in finding a way to get what you desire without dying for it.

  Danielle Trussoni

  Real, Dying, Desire

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• The man whose silent daysIn harmless joys are spent,Whom hopes cannot delude,Nor sorrow discontent:That man needs neither towersNor armour for defence,Nor secret vaults to flyFrom thunder's violence.

  Thomas Campion

  Men, Joy, Secret

  Thomas Campion (1907). “Poetical Works (in English) of Thomas Campion”

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• The Forsytes were resentful of something, not individually, but as a family; this resentment expressed itself in an added perfection of raiment, an exuberance of family cordiality, an exaggeration of family importance, and the sniff. Danger so indispensable in bringing out the fundamental quality of any society, group, or individual was what the Forsytes scented; the premonition of danger put a burnish on their armour. For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.

  John Galsworthy

  Perfection, Quality, Fundamentals

  John Galsworthy (2016). “The Forsyte Saga, Complete: England Literature”, p.9, 谷月社

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• In Moscow, dim and green under the summer rain, columns of armour were waiting in the side-roads off the long avenue from Vnukovo airport. Tanks from the Taman Division stood beneath the dripping trees around Moscow University with their field kitchens and command trucks. This was not a new sight to me: the Soviet tanks had rested like that beneath the trees of the parks in Prague, late in another August twenty-three years before. Now they had invaded and crushed one more country -- their own.

  Neal Ascherson

  Summer, Country, Rain

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• The diversion of baiting an author has the sanction of all ages and nations, and is more lawful than the sport of teasing other animals, because, for the most part, he comes voluntarily to the stake, furnished, as he imagines, by the patron powers of literature, with resistless weapons, and impenetrable armour, with the mail of the boar of Erymanth, and the paws of the lion of Nemea.

  Samuel Johnson

  Sports, Writing, Animal

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1840). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.267

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• [People] are tired of being out-negotiated on every front. Whether it is militarily, with ISIS where we can't stop ISIS, where we have 2,300 Humvees, the latest and the greatest, armour-plated, stolen because one bullet is shot in the air and the allies run and the enemy takes over our weapons.

  Donald Trump

  Running, Tired, Air

  Source: www.economist.com

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