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• Through suffering we have endured the assaults of time; reverses have ever been our beginning; and out of the depths God has gathered us to his heart.

  Stefan Zweig

  Heart, Suffering, Depth

  Stefan Zweig (1929). “Jeremiah: A Drama in Nine Scenes”, p.463, Library of Alexandria

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• Personally, I'd be delighted to live in a country where happily married gay couples had closets full of assault weapons.

  Glenn Reynolds

  Country, Couple, Gay

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• The more complex our security becomes, the more complex our enemy's efforts must be.The more we seek to shut him out, the better he must learn to become at breaking in.Each new level of security that we manage becomes no more than a stepping-stone for him who would surpass us, for he bases his next assault upon our best defenses.It is a ware that can never truly be won… but one we dare not lose.

  C.S. Friedman

  Effort, Enemy, Defense

  C.S. Friedman (1999). “This Alien Shore”, p.32, Penguin

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• People who live in an age of corruption are witty and slanderous; they know that there are other kinds of murder than by dagger or assault; they also know that whatever is well said is believed.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Witty, People, Age

  "The Gay Science". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, Sec. 23, 1882.

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• The man who accused Richard Simmons of slapping him in an airport has dropped the assault charge. Dropped it! Upon hearing the news, Simmons sadly responded, "You mean I'm not going to prison?"

  Dennis Miller

  Mean, Men, Airports

  "Daily Ror-shocked: Is CNBC's Dennis Miller funny?" by Jeremy Cluchey, www.mediamatters.org. July 07, 2004.

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• Apoplexie and lethargie,
  As forlorn hope, assault the enemy.

  Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

  Enemy, Disease, Forlorn

  "La Seconde Semaine". Poem by Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, 1584.

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• We may, indeed, say that the hour of death is uncertain, but when we say this we think of that hour as situated in a vague and remote expanse of time; it does not occur to us that it can have any connexion with the day that has already dawned and can mean that death -- or its first assault and partial possession of us, after which it will never leave hold of us again -- may occur this very afternoon, so far from uncertain, this afternoon whose time-table, hour by hour, has been settled in advance.

  Marcel Proust

  Mean, Thinking, Doe

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• After he routed Pharnaces Ponticus at the first assault, he wrote thus to his friends: "I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Plutarch

  Saws, Firsts

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.248

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• What troubles me about the "hostile workplace" category of sexual harassment policy is that women are being returned to their old status of delicate flowers who must be protected from assault by male lechers. It is anti-feminist to ask for special treatment for women.

  Camille Paglia

  Flower, Feminist, Special

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.44, Vintage

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• When prostitution is a crime, the message conveyed is that women who are sexual are "bad," and therefore legitimate victims of sexual assault. Sex becomes a weapon to be used by men.

  Margo St. James

  Sex, Men, Weapons

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• I have grown up with guns all my life, but people who like assault weapons they should join the United States Army, we have them.

  Wesley Clark

  Army, Gun, Assault Weapons

  "CNN Crossfire", transcripts.cnn.com. June 25, 2003.

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• The underlying problem remains the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land and the continuing Israeli assaults against our people.

  Ismail Haniyeh

  Land, People, Israeli Occupation

  Partners for Peace interview, March 15, 2006.

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• We are members of the most destructive culture ever to exist. Our assault on the natural world, on indigenous and other cultures, on women, on children, on all of us through the possibility of nuclear suicide and other means--all these are unprecedented in their magnitude and ferocity.

  Derrick Jensen

  Suicide, Children, Mean

  Derrick Jensen (2004). “Listening to the Land: Conversations about Nature, Culture and Eros”, p.1, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• At the root of the assault on our liberties is, in fact, an assault on our character--an assault that assumes that we are not good enough to be free, and that aims to make sure that we are no longer strong enough, courageous enough, disciplined enough to be a free people.

  Alan Keyes

  Strong, Character, Roots

  Alan Keyes' Speech at Rally in Idaho Falls, Idaho, www.keyesarchives.com. May 12, 2000.

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• The Assault Weapons Ban deals with a fictional distinction. You have guns that are exactly the same guns as are banned, in function, that were banned because of the way they look. And you know, that's the whole truth of this policy: it's to make politicians look as if they are doing something, when in point of fact, they are doing nothing.

  Alan Keyes

  Gun, Assault Weapons, Doing Nothing

  Second Debate between Alan Keyes & Barack Obama, votesmart.org. October 21, 2004.

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• The idea of a terrorist attack that assaults innocent human beings in a building, or a mall or a restaurant is bad enough--yet the terrorist mind that looks at a passenger plane and sees the fuel and the intensity of the blast, and sees the rocket engines that will carry it into the heart of destruction like a cruise missile, but who does not see the humanity of one single soul on that airplane is the chilling truth of what we're up against.

  Alan Keyes

  Heart, Airplane, Ideas

  Alan Keyes' Address to Black America's Political Action Committee, www.keyesarchives.com. September 25, 2001.

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• American life, in large cities, is a perpetual assault on the senses and the nerves; it is out of asceticism, out of unworldliness, precisely, that we bear it.

  Joseph McCarthy

  Cities, Nerves, Asceticism

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• It would be hard to find a single instance of a direct assault by positive effort upon poverty, vice, and misery which has not either failed or, if it has not failed directly and entirely, has not entailed other evils greater than the one which it removed.

  William Graham Sumner

  Evil, Effort, Vices

  "Sociology" (1881)

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• Arms alone can give the world no permanent peace, no confident security. Arms are solely for defense - to protect from violent assault what we already have. They are only a costly insurance. They cannot add to human progress.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Giving, Progress

  Eisenhower, Dwight D (1958). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956”, p.419, Best Books on

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• Don't you think it would be better to legalize victimless crimes like drugs & prostitution & divert the resources to more important things like the rapes & assaults & things like that?

  Larry King

  Thinking, Drug, Important

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• The formation of the life of a person in the womb is the work of God, and it is not merely a mechanical process but a work on the analogy of weaving or knitting: "Thou didst knit me together in my mother's womb" (psalm 139:13). The life of the unborn is the knitting of God, and what He is knitting is a human being in His own image, unlike any other creature in the universe... The destruction of conceived human life - whether embryonic, fetal, or viable - is an assault on the unique person-forming work of God.

  John Piper

  Mother, Unique, Knitting

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• James says, "You desire and do not have; so you kill" (Jas. 4:2). We kill marriages and we kill unborn babies because they cut across our desires; they stand in the way of our unencumbered self-enhancement. And we live in a culture where self-enhancement and self-advancement is god. And if self-enhancement is god, then the One who is at work in the womb shaping a person in His own image is not God and the assault on His work is not sacrilegious, but obedience to the god of self.

  John Piper

  Baby, Cutting, Self

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• John Coltrane is still probably one of the greatest musicians of this century. His tone truly puts demons on a leash. His gift is directly from the mind of God and is very powerful. ..... The first time I heard a Love Supreme, it was really an assault. It could've been from mars as far as i was concerned, or another galaxy.
  I remember the album cover and the name, but the music didn't fit into the patterns of my brain at that point. It was like someone trying to tell a monkey about spirituality or computers, you know, it just didn't compute.

  Carlos Santana

  Powerful, Names, Mind

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• The story of your life is the story of the long and brutal assault on your heart by the one who knows what you could be and fears it.

  John Eldredge

  Life, Fear, Heart

  John Eldredge (2006). “Waking the Dead: The Glory of a Heart Fully Alive”, p.34, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I come from a state that has virtually no gun control. And yet, at political peril, I voted for an instant background check, which I want to see strengthened and expanded. I voted to ban certain types of assault weapons which are designed only to kill people.

  Bernie Sanders

  Gun, Assault Weapons, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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