Protect Quotes - Page 8

• No generous mind delights to oppress the weak, but rather to cherish and protect.

  Anne Bronte

  Mind, Delight, Cherish

  Anne Bronte (2006). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall”, p.45, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• No value is higher than self-esteem, but you've invested it in counterfeit securities-and now your morality has caught you in a trap where you are forced to protect your self-esteem by fighting for the creed of self-destruction. The grim joke is on you: that need of self-esteem, which you're unable to explain or to define, belongs to my morality, not yours; it's the objective token of my code, it is my proof within your own soul.

  Ayn Rand

  Self Esteem, Fighting, Soul

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.143, Penguin

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• I did though at least expect him to correct the false statements he made when he was trying to protect the Presidency. Instead, he talked about it as though I had laid it all out there for the taking. I was the buffet and he just couldn't resist the dessert.

  Monica Lewinsky

  Trying, Buffets, Dessert

  "The Month of Elul as Opportunity: Monica, Eve, and Repentance" by Levi Ben-Shmuel, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 1, 2010.

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• Nothing can ever pass away from the words of Christ, nor can anything be changed in the doctrine which the Catholic Church received from Christ to guard, protect, and preach.

  Pope Pius IX

  Catholic, Church, Passing Away

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• The answer doesn't lie in learning how to protect ourselves from life-it lies in learning how to become strong enough to let a bit more of it in.

  Merle Shain

  Life, Strong, Lying

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• Those living in rural areas as well as those with a planning policy remit for those areas have an important responsibility to protect green belt agricultural land for the wider benefit of feeding the UK into the uncertain future that we all face

  Phil Harding

  Responsibility, Land, Important

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• We can either save the planet from catastrophic warming, or protect fossil fuel CEOs. Not both. Do the math(s)

  Bill McKibben

  Math, Fuel, Fossils

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• Large carbon and resource savings arising from efficiency and renewable energy programmes will be completely cancelled out by the added resource needs of even small population increases. Action is urgently required on both fronts to protect our life on earth

  Phil Harding

  Energy, Population, Needs

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• I believe in a sound, strong environmental policy that protects the health of our people and a wise stewardship of our nation's natural resources.

  Ronald Reagan

  Wise, Strong, Believe

  Ronald Reagan, Fred L. Israel, United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan) (1987). “Ronald Reagan's Weekly Radio Addresses: The first term”, Scholarly Resources Inc

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• As an experienced artist, I carry my work like a secret pregnancy. I am always aware of inner life and the need to protect it.

  Julia Cameron

  Art, Pregnancy, Secret

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• Blaming is a way to protect your heart, trying to protect what is soft and open and tender in yourself.

  Pema Chodron

  Heart, Trying, Way

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• Tolerance can be exercised only by those who have well-grounded convictions (although it will not always be exercised even by them). For such people tolerance is an act of self-abnegation; although they are convinced that those who differ from them must be wrong, they nevertheless will protect their rights.

  Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

  Religious, Rights, Self

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• Every Thanksgiving, Barack sits down to call some of our troops and thank them for their service. When he tells me about these conversations, it always reminds me of how blessed we are to live in a country where men and women will stand up to protect our freedoms and preserve our way of life. And whenever I've had the chance to meet with these heroes and their families, I've always walked away inspired by their courage and in awe of their strength.

  Michelle Obama

  Country, Hero, Blessed

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• We adults protect ourselves with laws, police, workplace regulations and social norms and there is no conceivable reason why children should be left more vulnerable, other that laziness or callousness in considering what life is like from their point of view.

  Steven Pinker

  Children, Views, Law

  Steven Pinker (2011). “The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined”, p.480, Penguin

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• Freedom is always just one generation away from extinction. We don't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. We have to fight for it and protect it and then hand it to them, so that they shall do the same, or we're going to find ourselves spending our sunset years telling our children and our children's children, about a time in America, back in the day, when men and women were free.

  Ronald Reagan

  Children, Sunset, Fighting

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• The commitment must be much deeper - to let no species knowingly die; to take all reasonable action to protect every species and race in perpetuity.

  E. O. Wilson

  Nature, Commitment, Race

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• Why are there no windows in the toilets on aeroplanes? To protect you from the most dedicated perverts on the planet, hanging off the wing to get a peep?

  Billy Connolly

  Funny, Travel, Wings

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• The First Amendment guarantees liberty of human expression in order to preserve in our Nation what Mr. Justice Holmes called a "free trade in ideas." To that end, the Constitution protects more than just a man's freedom to say or write or publish what he wants. It secures as well the liberty of each man to decide for himself what he will read and to what he will listen. The Constitution guarantees, in short, a society of free choice.

  Potter Stewart

  Writing, Men, Expression

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• If i can't even protect my captain's dream, then whatever ambition i have is nothing but talk.

  Zoro

  Dream, Ambition, Captains

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• It is a technique ideally suited to prevent physical and mental illness and to protect the body generally, developing an inevitable sense of self-reliance and assurance.

  Yehudi Menuhin

  Self, Technique, Body

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• Boundaries are the lines we draw that mark off our autonomy and that of other people, that protect our privacy and that of others. Boundaries allow for intimate connection without dissolving or losing one's sense of self.

  Amy Bloom

  Self, People, Lines

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• Planet Earth is our shared island, let us join forces to protect it

  Ban Ki-moon

  Islands, Earth, Force

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• Nothing is wrong with Tom Brady. When you look at the New England Patriots, they are going to have to readjust how they evaluate talent…You have to bring in some heavy hitters to protect Tom Brady at 37 years old and help him get the ball out of his hands.

  Sterling Sharpe

  Hands, Years, Balls

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• When we want a cup of tea our main wish is to drink tea, but to fulfill this wish we naturally develop the secondary wish to find a cup. In a similar way, the main wish of those who have great compassion is to protect all living beings from their suffering, but to fulfill this wish they know they must first attain Buddhahood themselves and so they naturally develop the secondary wish to attain enlightenment.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Compassion, Tea, Suffering

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• I will protect all Colombians regardless of whether the attacks come from guerrillas or paramilitaries.

  Alvaro Uribe

  Rehabilitation, Guerrillas

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