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• Aggressive and irresponsible steps endanger the peace and stability of the world, and the international community feels the need to protect itself from Iran.

  Moshe Katsav

  Iran, Community, Needs

  "Interview: Israeli President Discusses Iran Nuclear Standoff". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty interview, www.rferl.org. March 20, 2006.

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• Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of our liberty depends upon the chaos and cacophony of the unfettered speech the First Amendment protects.

  Stewart Dalzell

  Liberty, Cacophony, Speech

  "Judges Turn Back Law To Regulate Internet Decency" by Peter H. Lewis, www.nytimes.com. June 13, 1996.

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• When youre sharing a foxhole with another man, you don't worry about what color he is, just whether or not he will protect your back

  Lee Benson

  Men, Color, Worry

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• Well, the hardest thing to do, as we know from our own experience on 9/11 is protect everything all the time.

  John Abizaid

  Hardest, Wells, Things To Do

  Interview with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 4, 2004.

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• It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on.

  Floyd Abrams

  Rights, People, Not Good Enough

  "First Amendment Attorney Floyd Abrams Talks with CFIF’s Corporate Counsel About Three Decades of Free Speech". "Your Turn - Meeting Nonsense with Common Sense" with Renee Giachino, www.cfif.org. une 15, 2005.

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• What we love, we protect. This story will delight children and parents alike, who care for what they love.

  Zoe Weil

  Children, Parent, Who Cares

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• There's a fundamental difference between people who want to see the Internet and say - 'Let's lobotomize and censor parts of it because we need to control it' -  and those like us who see the Internet as a method of growing the economy and innovating in front of the world. And we have to actually reconcile those two positions. And we believe that it is much better to protect this crown jewel of civilization, which is the ability for us to communicate and express our ideas freely, than to try to lobotomize it.

  Ben Huh

  Believe, Jewels, Civilization

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• The origins of poetry are clearly rooted in obscurity, in secretiveness, in incantation, in spells that must at once invoke and protect, tell the secret and keep it.

  Mary Ruefle

  Secret, Obscurity, Invoke

  Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.82, Wave Books

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• I will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. It is not the Constitution as I would like to have it, but as it is, that is to be defended. The Constitution will not be preserved & defended until it is enforced & obeyed in every part of every one of the United States. It must be so respected, obeyed, enforced and defended, and let the grass grow where it may.

  Abraham Lincoln

  United States, May, Constitution

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• However, they ignore the fact that the First Amendment is intended to protect only against government sanctions for exercising free speech rights, not private actions.

  Ed Koch

  Exercise, Rights, Government

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• Tying the little folks with the older folks is a great and powerful tool to preserve and to protect the family and the individual.

  Alex Haley

  Powerful, Littles, Tools

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• You will protect with the last drop of someone else's blood what was never yours.

  Kenneth Patchen

  Blood, Lasts

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• We simulated the predator with livestock and the perennial grassland returned. Just put the whole back, and there it was. You'll find the scientific method never discovers anything. Observant, creative people make discoveries. But the scientific method protects us from cranks like me.

  Allan Savory

  Discovery, People, Creative

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• Sometimes a King has to do terrible things in order to protect those he has sworn to look after. When the stakes are so high, dreadful decisions have to be taken. It is the responsibility of a King to take on that burden, that guilt.

  Cressida Cowell

  Kings, Taken, Responsibility

  Cressida Cowell (2013). “How to Betray a Dragon's Hero”, p.368, Hachette UK

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• The momma bears are demanding, 'Protect our kids.'

  Gene Ward

  Kids, Marriage Equality, Bears

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• Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

  Barbara Sher

  Jobs, Swimming, Thinking

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• If you want to protect yourself as an actor, always work with good people

  George Clooney

  People, Actors, Want

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• Every threat to the family is a threat to society itself. So protect your families! See in them your country’s greatest treasure and nourish them always by prayer and the grace of the sacraments.

  Pope Francis

  Country, Prayer, Greatest Treasure

  Pope Francis' Speech during the Meeting with Families at the Mall of Asia Arena in Manila, Philippines, w2.vatican.va. January 16, 2015.

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• Small yet strong in the love of God, like Saint Francis of Assisi, all of us, as Christians, are called to watch over
  and protect the fragile world in which we live, and all its peoples.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Strong, Saint

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.63, BookBaby

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• It seems that many health professionals involved in antenatal care have not realized that one of their role should be to protect the emotional state of pregnant women

  Michel Odent

  Emotional, Roles, Care

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• The Bill of Rights existed long before President Obama was elected, and as long as I’m a U.S. Senator, I will fight to protect the basic rights and liberties that belong to all of us as American citizens.

  Rand Paul

  Fighting, Rights, Long

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• A healthy community is one in which the elderly protect, care for, love and assist the younger ones to provide continuity and hope.

  Maggie Kuhn

  Elderly, Community, Healthy

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• Every child’s life is sacred and it is long past time that we protect it.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Children, Past, Long

  "It’s Past Time to Protect Children Not Guns" by Marian Wright Edelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 23, 2012.

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• But God is the God of our yesterdays, and He allows the memory of them to turn the past into a ministry of spiritual growth for our future. God reminds us of the past to protect us from a very shallow security in the present.

  Oswald Chambers

  Spiritual, Memories, Past

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.90, Discovery House

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• A big mistake people make when they are trying to lose weight is that they stop eating. They'll eat salads once a day and then their body starts trying to protect itself and holds onto the fat.

  Curtis Jackson

  Inspirational, Mistake, People

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