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• Humour very often consists of shrewd perceptions about people. It's usually fun at someone's expense. Nowadays if you're funny at anybody's expense they run to the UN and say, "I must have an ombudsman to protect me." You hardly dare have a shrewd perception about anybody.

  Robertson Davies

  Running, Fun, People

  "Conversations with Robertson Davies". Book by Robertson Davies, "World of Wonders", 1989.

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• Americans, it seems to me, tend to protect their children from the harshness of life, in their interest. That's not the way my people rear their children. They let them experience the world as it is.

  Chinua Achebe

  Children, People, World

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• Sex and racism have always been tied together. Look at the thousands of black men who got lynched and castrated. The reason the Klan came into being was to protect white southern women.

  Spike Lee

  Sex, Men, White

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• I started out by viewing the marketplace as a cruel place, where you need intervention by government and lawyers to protect people. But after watching the regulators work, I have come to believe that markets are magical and the best protectors of the consumer. It is my job to explain the beauties of the free market.

  John Stossel

  Jobs, Believe, Government

  The Oregonian, October 26, 1994.

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• The National Rifle Association is always arguing that the Second Amendment determines the right to bear arms. But I think it really is the people's right to bear arms in a militia. The NRA thinks it protects their right to have Teflon-coated bullets. But that's not the original understanding.

  Robert Bork

  Thinking, Always Arguing, People

  "Advocates: Point and Counterpoint, Laurence Tribe and Robert Bork Debate the Framers' Spacious Terms". Miriam Bensimhorn, Life Magazine (Special Issue), Fall 1991.

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• A true woman loves a strong man because she knows his weaknesses. She protects as much as she is protected.

  Andre Maurois

  Strong, Women, Weakness

  "The Art of Living". Book by Andre Maurois, 1939.

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• A great nation assailed by war has not only its frontiers to protect: it must also protect its good sense. It must protect itself from the hallucinations, injustices, and follies which the plague lets loose.

  Romain Rolland

  War, Hallucinations, Injustice

  Romain Rolland, Charles Kay Ogden (1916). “Above the battle”

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• I did not enjoy the violence of boxing so much as the science of it. I was intrigued by how one moved one's body to protect oneself, how one used a strategy both to attack and retreat, how one paced oneself over a match.

  Nelson Mandela

  Boxing, Body, Violence

  "Remembering Mandela, the Boxer" by Keegan Hamilton, grantland.com. December 6, 2013.

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• The Common lawes of the Realme should by no means be delayed for the law is the surest sanctuary, that a man should take, and the strongest fortresse to protect the weakest of all, lex et tutissima cassis.

  Edward Coke

  Mean, Men, Law

  "The Second Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England". Book by Edward Coke, 1642.

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• The constructive schizoid person stands against the spiritual emptiness of encroaching technology and does not let himself be emptied by it. He lives and works with the machine without becoming a machine. He finds it necessary to remain detached enough to get meaning from the experience, but in doing so, to protect his own inner life from impoverishment.

  Rollo May

  Spiritual, Technology, Becoming

  Rollo May (1969). “Love and will”

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• The tendency to superstitions should be counteracted from the earliest age; or rather steps should be taken to protect the mind of the child from superstitions imposed upon it by ignorant nurses or silly mothers.

  Arthur Alfred Lynch

  Mother, Children, Silly

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• To those who seek to protect their ego true Peace brings only disturbance.

  Anthony de Mello

  Ego, Disturbance, True Peace

  "One Minute Nonsense". Book by Anthony de Mello, p. 33, 1992.

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• Women's scars and rituals involved beauty (piercing ears and noses, binding feet, and wearing corsets); men's involved protecting women. In cultures in which physical strength is still the best way to protect women, as among the Dodos in Uganda, each time a man kills a man, he is awarded a ritual scar; the more scars, the more he is considered eligible.

  Warren Farrell

  Men, Feet, Uganda

  "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• More proof that trusting the Feds to protect our information is like hiring Homer Simpson to guard the donuts.

  Robert X. Cringely

  Information, Proof, Feds

  "Things That Make You Cringe". InfoWorld, Volume 28, No. 51, December 18, 2006.

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• A number of countries, including some who have loudly criticized the NSA, privately acknowledge that America has special responsibilities as the world's only superpower, that our intelligence capabilities are critical to meeting these responsibilities, and that they themselves have relied on the information we obtain to protect their own people.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Responsibility, Nsa

  "Obama revamps U.S. surveillance" by Josh Gerstein and Reid J. Epstein, www.politico.com. January 17, 2014.

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• All of us need an identity which unites us with our neighbours, our countrymen, those people who are subject to the same rules and the same laws as us, those people with whom we might one day have to fight side by side to protect our inheritance, those people with whom we will suffer when attacked, those people whose destinies are in some way tied up with our own.

  Roger Scruton

  Fighting, Destiny, Law

  "Rivers of Blood". BBC Documentary, March 08, 2008.

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• Then to deliver the message to the audience is our mission. I tried to imagine, if they killed my family, daughters, I would do anything to protect my family. It's insane but that's the situation everybody was in.

  Miyavi

  Daughter, Insane, Messages

  Source: collider.com

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• Americans love to talk about the Constitution and how it protects the rights of every citizen and promises freedom to every citizen, but it's also a country based on racism and they don't talk about that too much and every time there's a film which deals with it there's certain parts of the country that feel uncomfortable.

  Denzel Washington

  Country, Rights, Racism

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• After 9/11, I told the American people I would do everything in my power to protect the country, within the law, and that's exactly how I conduct my presidency.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Law, People

  "Countdown" with Keith Olbermann, www.nbcnews.com. December 16, 2005.

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• We don't talk about sources and methods. Don't talk about ongoing intelligence operations. I know there's speculation. But it's important for the American people to understand that I will use my powers to protect us, and I will do so under the law, and that's important for our citizens to understand.

  George W. Bush

  Law, People, Important

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• The League of Nations is the greatest humbug in history. They cannot even protect a little nation like Armenia. They do nothing but pass useless resolutions.

  David Lloyd George

  League, Armenia, Useless

  "The Riddell Diaries 1908-1923". Book by George Allardice Riddell, 1986.

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• Certainly everyone, in order to protect love, Certainly wishes to believe in something

  Ayumi Hamasaki

  Believe, Order, Wish

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• About President Bush's stand against condoms, condoms will not protect you from AIDS . So to just throw a bunch of condoms over to Africa and say, here, we're helping you with AIDS, is just going to further the spread of AIDS over there.

  Christine O'Donnell

  President, Helping, Condom

  "O'Donnell: Condoms Are An 'Anti-Human' 'Insult' That Reduce People 'To The Level Of A Dog'". politicalcorrection.org. September 16, 2010.

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• When I took my oath of office to serve as your Governor, remember, I swore to steadfastly and doggedly guard the interests of this great state like a grizzly with cubs, as a mother naturally guards her own. Alaska, as a statewide family, we've got to fight for each other, not against and not let external, sensationalized distractions draw us off course. As an exciting year of unpredictable change begins, we, too, have our work cut out for us. And we're all in this together. Just like our musk ox, they circle up to protect their future when they are challenged. We've got to do the same.

  Sarah Palin

  Mother, Fighting, Cutting

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• Any man who has been given the honor of being promoted to general and who says, "I will protect another general who protects Communists," is not fit to wear that uniform, general.

  Joseph McCarthy

  Men, Honor, Uniforms

  Remark to Gen. Ralph Zwicker during the Army investigations (18 February 1954), as quoted in "A Conspiracy So Immense" by David M. Oshinsky, 2005.

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