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• We should treat our minds, that is, ourselves, as innocent and ingenuous children, whose guardians we are, and be careful what objects and what subjects we thrust on their attention.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Children, Thinking, Thoughtful

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.419, Simon and Schuster

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• What concerns me is that the Independent is going, and there are job cuts at the Guardian, but the wretched Daily Mail is still rampant, making lots of money by millions of people clicking on pictures of cellulited women. I think that's sad.

  Alastair Campbell

  Jobs, Independent, Cutting

  "Alastair Campbell on spin, Iraq and a recurring nightmare about Tony Blair and Gordon Brown". Interview with Simon Kelner, www.independent.co.uk. March 25, 2016.

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• I think the press, by and large, is what we call "liberal". But of course what we call "liberal" means well to the right. "Liberal" means the "guardians of the gates". So the New York Times is "liberal" by, what's called, the standards of political discourse, New York Times is liberal, CBS is liberal. I don't disagree. I think they're moderately critical at the fringes. They're not totally subordinate to power, but they are very strict in how far you can go. And in fact, their liberalism serves an extremely important function in supporting power.

  Noam Chomsky

  New York, Mean, Thinking

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• St. Joseph was a just man, a tireless worker, the upright guardian of those entrusted to his care. May he always guard, protect and enlighten families.

  Pope John Paul II

  Men, Care, May

  Pope John Paul II (1981). “Apostolic Exhortation, the Role of the Christian Family in the Modern World: Familiaris Consortio”

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• But of all the views of this law [universal education] none is more important, none more legitimate, than that of rendering the people the safe, as they are the ultimate, guardians of their own liberty.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Education, Views, Law

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• I call animals "guardians of Being," especially animals that live with humans. Because, for many humans, it's through their contact with animals they get in touch with that level of being.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Animal, Levels, Contact

  Source: jhaines6.wordpress.com

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• It comes down to whether you believe in seven miraculous escapes a week or one guardian angel.

  Robert Breault

  Believe, Angel, Week

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• I feel like every single person has guardian angels.

  Doreen Virtue

  Angel, Feels, Single Person

  Interview with Lindsay McGinty, www.fourcornersmagazine.com. December 21, 2010.

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• Comforters for our todays / Guardians of memories / Keeping our youth and yesterdays alive / Comrades with one history.

  Adele Faber

  Memories, Yesterday, Alive

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• UG staff is patching up wargs, and all surviving Guardians are tied up," Wraith said, "But they could probably use some medical attention. Especially the one dipshit with the idiotic Mohawk. He lost a lot of blood." "Because you ate him," Sin said wryly. Wraith blinked with exaggerated innocence. "Fighting makes me hungry.

  Larissa Ione

  Fighting, Blood, Attention

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• Be ever more convinced that your guardian angel is really present, that he is ever at your side. St. Frances of Rome always saw him standing before her, his arms clasped at his breast, his eyes uplifted to Heaven; but at the slightest failing, he would cover his face as if in shame, and at times, turn his back to her.

  John Bosco

  Eye, Angel, Rome

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• Yahweh [God] must become man precisely because he has done man a wrong. He, the guardian of justice, knows that every wrong must be expiated, and Wisdom knows that moral law is above even him. Because his creature has surpassed him he must regenerate himself

  Carl Jung

  Men, Law, Justice

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Gerhard Adler, Michael Scott Montague Fordham (1973). “The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: Psychology and religion, West and East”

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• Those tragic comedians, the Chamber of Commerce red hunters, the Women's Christian Temperance Union smellers, the censors of books, the Klan regulators, the Methodist prowlers, the Baptist guardians of sacred vessels-we have the national mentality of a police lieutenant.

  H. L. Mencken

  Christian, Book, America

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• In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Love, Past, Affection

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• We would like otherworldly visitations to come as distinct voices with clear instructions, but they may only give small signs in dreams, or as sudden hunches and insights that cannot be denied. They feel more as if they emerge from inside and steer you from within like an inner guardian angel. . . . And, most amazing, it has never forgotten you, although you may have spent most of your life ignoring it.

  James Hillman

  Inspirational, Dream, Angel

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• Ancient tradition always depicts a true Chinese musician as blind. Esoterically, this implies that his gift of the divine art is so completely guided by, and dedicated to, hosts of the celestial guardians, that both his sight and consciousness are focused above and beyond the objective world.

  Corinne Heline

  Art, Inspiration, Sight

  Corinne Heline (1965). “Music: the keynote of human evolution”

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• Assuming, as you grow older, that you're the guardian of the world's wisdom, even if you haven't necessarily lived enough to know what's right and wrong.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, World, Assuming

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• God, why do I give interviews to 'the Guardian'? They always try to dissect you, and I don't really think about stuff in the way that you're asking me these questions.

  Jamie Oliver

  Thinking, Giving, Trying

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• Therefore for Spirits, I am so far from denying their existence that I could easily believe, that not only whole Countries, but particular persons, have their Tutelary and Guardian Angels.

  Thomas Browne

  Country, Believe, Angel

  Sir Thomas Browne (1844). “Religio Medici [and] Its Sequel Christian Morals”, p.66

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• He has made us the master organizers of the world . . . to overwhelm the forces of reaction throught the earth . . . . This is the divine mission of America . . . . We are trustees of the world's progress, guardians of its righteous peace. [Progressive]

  Albert J. Beveridge

  Inspirational, God, Usa

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• [The People] are the ultimate, guardians of their own liberty.

  Thomas Jefferson

  People, President, Liberty

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• What gets up my nose is being infantilized by governments, by the BBC, by the Guardian that there is no argument, that all scientists who aren’t cranks and charlatans are agreed on all this, that the consequences are uniformly negative, the issues beyond doubt and the steps to be taken beyond dispute.

  Michael Buerk

  Taken, Government, Issues

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• I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as an architect of peace.

  Diane Ackerman

  Commitment, Compassion, Hatred

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “I Praise My Destroyer: Poems”, p.3, Vintage

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• If they are incorporated into the Constitution, independent tribunals of justice will consider themselves in a peculiar manner the guardians of those rights; they will be an impenetrable bulwark against every assumption of power in the legislative or executive; they will be naturally led to resist every encroachment upon rights expressly stipulated for in the Constitution by the declaration of rights.

  James Madison

  Independent, Rights, Justice

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• Each morning at Holy Mass, the Bread of Life will help the body as well as the soul, if we have faith. If we but touch the hem of His garment...and how much more have we than that! We can find Him, at every moment, on the altar. Be with Him there. Better than all books! Thank the Trinity over and over again for this Gift. Rest in His presence, and my guardian angel will adore Him for me. Silence.

  Edel Quinn

  Morning, Book, Angel

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