Protect Quotes - Page 29

• We need laws that protect everyone - men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion...ah, persuasion.

  Bella Abzug

  Gay, Men, Law

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• It is the rule which says that the other rules of scientific procedure must be designed in such a way that they do not protect any statement in science against falsification.

  Karl Popper

  Science, Scientific Method, Way

  Karl Popper (2005). “The Logic of Scientific Discovery”, p.33, Routledge

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• Environmental laws were not passed to protect our air and water, they were passed to get votes.

  Frank Zappa

  Air, Law, Water

  Song: The Central Scrutinizer

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• Historically the director has been the key creative element in a film and we must maintain that. We must protect that, in spite of the fact that there is new technology that's continually trying to erode that.

  John Frankenheimer

  Technology, Keys, Creative

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• There are some women who seem to be born without fear, just as there are people who are born without the ability to feel pain ... Providence appears to protect such women, maybe out of astonishment.

  Margaret Atwood

  Pain, Fear, People

  Margaret Atwood (2012). “Bluebeard's Egg”, p.112, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• North Carolina is home to some of the largest financial institutions in the country, and a vibrant network of community banks. We're a banking state, and we're proud of that distinction. But we also understand that responsible financial regulation protects consumers and businesses.

  Kay Hagan

  Country, Home, Community

  "Don’t Filibuster Cordray" by Kay R. Hagan, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 8, 2011.

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• The courts are using the First Amendment to attack religion, when they should be using it to protect religion.

  Ernest Istook

  Firsts, First Amendment, Should

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• When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite attractive. But if I got frightened and tried to protect that, that canvas would die.

  Michael Ironside

  Art, College, Would Be

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• John Henry Lloyd is the man I gave the credit to for polishing my skills. He taught me how to play third base and how to protect myself. John taught me more baseball than anyone else.

  Judy Johnson

  Baseball, Men, Play

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• Well, the U.N. Security Council resolution 1973 is very clear. It says all necessary measures to be taken to protect civilians and civilian areas. I mean, that to me is very clear.

  Mike Jackson

  Taken, Mean, Resolution

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• You have plaintiffs attorneys, you have defense attorneys. So there is no unified bar that will protect a particular judge who has made a courageous decision that's unpopular.

  Anthony Kennedy

  Judging, Decision, Defense

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• The eco-movement is growing as people all over catch on to the need to protect our precious planet, which makes the future look really bright - and makes me really happy.

  Josie Maran

  People, Needs, Looks

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• I'm sure people in the business have said: She's too old for that part. I don't hear about it because your agent protects you from those negative things.

  Felicity Kendal

  People, Agents, Negative

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• England and Greece are friends. English blood was shed on Greek soil in the war against fascism, and Greeks gave their lives to protect English pilots.

  Melina Mercouri

  War, Blood, Greek

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• No matter what happens, I'm going to protect my kid.

  Mindy McCready

  Kids, Matter, Happens

  "Country Singer Mindy McCready Reportedly Can't Return to Florida Court Due to Pregnancy", www.foxnews.com. December 1, 2011.

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• I was a crown attorney in my home town in Nova Scotia, and I learned that victims of crime needed better laws to better protect them. I saw politics as a means to improve this protection for them.

  Peter MacKay

  Home, Mean, Law

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• In democracy, as quaintly understood, voters pick their representatives. American democracy increasingly reverses that. Legislative districts are drawn to protect incumbents who, effectively, pick their voters.

  George Will

  Democracy, Voters, Reverse

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• My guard stood hard when abstract threats, too noble to neglect, deceived me into thinking, I had something to protect.

  Bob Dylan

  Education, Thinking, Noble

  Song: My Back Pages, Album: Another Side Of Bob Dylan

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• If it's crazy to call for putting police and armed security in our school to protect our children, then call me crazy.

  Wayne LaPierre

  Children, Crazy, School

  "Would Armed Guards Make School Safer?". "Tell Me More" with Celeste Headlee, www.npr.org. December 26, 2012.

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• One way for investors to protect themselves from a rapid change in the price of a stock is to use a limit order rather than a market order.

  Arthur Levitt Jr

  Order, Use, Way

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• I thought the Secret Service would protect me from the press, but they were at my house to protect me from assassins with guns, not with assassins with pencils.

  Michael Reagan

  Gun, House, Secret

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• At issue is not only knowledge of the world but our survival as individuals and as a species. All the basic technologies ever invented by humans to feed and protect themselves depend on a relentless commitment to hard-nosed empiricism: you cannot assume that your arrowheads will pierce the hide of a bison or that your raft will float just because the omens are propitious and you have been given supernatural reassurance that they will. You have to be sure.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Commitment, Technology, Issues

  Barbara Ehrenreich (2009). “Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America”, p.148, Macmillan

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• Part of the beauty and much of the moral seriousness of sport derives from the severe justice of strenuous play in a circumscribed universe of rules that protect the integrity of competition. Records are worth recording, and worth striving to surpass, because they serve as benchmarks of excellence achieved under the pressure of competition.

  George Will

  Sports, Integrity, Play

  George F. Will (2003). “With a Happy Eye, But...: America and the World, 1997--2002”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• Took a vow to protect and serve,
  All you do is disrespect and murder.
  I ask that you not hurt my kids;
  This is where you work...this is where I live.

  Ka

  Hurt, Rap, Kids

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• They care for, protect, and guide God's people, frequently intervening or bring messages to people from God.

  Mary C. Neal

  God, Christian, Religious

  Mary C. Neal, M.D. (2012). “To Heaven and Back: A Doctor's Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again: A True Story”, p.99, WaterBrook

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