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• You are protected. But if you don't take risks, God will retreat and become only a subject of philosophical speculation.

  Paulo Coelho

  God, Philosophical, Risk

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• The Cross sanctifies the ego trip. For the Cross protected our Lord's perfect self-esteem from turning into sinful pride.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Self Esteem, Pride, Perfect

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• I could feel the warmth of his presence as if a soft blanket had been wrapped around my soul, around my heart. It held me and protected me. It sheltered me and I knew I wasn't alone anymore.

  Colleen Houck

  Heart, Romantic Love, Soul

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• When not protected by law, by popular favor or superstition, or by other special circumstances, [birds] yield very readily to the influences of civilization, and, though the first operations of the settler are favorable to the increase of many species, the great extension of rural and of mechanical industry is, in a variety of ways, destructive even to tribes not directly warred upon by man.

  George Perkins Marsh

  Science, Men, Yield

  George Perkins Marsh (2001). “So Great a Vision: The Conservation Writings of George Perkins Marsh”, University Press of New England

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• Religions are often state-protected nurseries of pseudoscience, although there's no reason why religions have to play that role. In a way, it's an artefact from times long gone.

  Carl Sagan

  Play, Nurse, Long

  Carl Sagan (2011). “The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.15, Ballantine Books

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• The reason fat people are happy is that the nerves are well protected.

  Luciano Pavarotti

  People, Nerves, Reason

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• The right of voting for representatives , is the primary right by which other rights are protected.

  Thomas Paine

  Rights, Voting, Representatives

  Thomas Paine (2016). “THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…”, p.724, e-artnow

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• You are always being prepared for something better or protected from something worse.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Something Better, Prepared

  Iyanla Vanzant (2012). “In The Meantime: Finding Yourself And The Love You Want”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• If you are protected from dark things then you have no protection of, knowledge of, or understanding of dark things when they show up.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dark, Understanding, Protection

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• If a person claims that he really loves someone, evidence is asked from him. And that evidence is the giving away of possessions, the granting of favors. Just as when Mevlana claimed that he loved me, when I came he granted me thousands of favors and protected me. I regard these all as a grace from God.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Giving, Grace, Favors

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• I had to come to the United States to prove myself. I fought for a long time in England and a lot of people thought I was a protected fighter.

  Ricky Hatton

  Motivation, Long, People

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• The Long Island Sound is an environmentally unique estuary that needs to be protected.

  Tim Bishop

  Unique, Islands, Long

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• A protected bicycle lane in the city in a developing country is a powerful symbol, showing that a citizen on the $30 bicycle is as important as one in a $30,000 car

  Enrique Penalosa

  Country, Powerful, Cities

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• I learned that money can be a lot of things,It can be something that is hoarded, fought over, protected, stolen and withheld. Or it can be like an energy, fueled by the desire, will, creative interest, need to laugh, of large groups of people. And it can be shuffled and pushed around and pooled together to fuel a common interest, jokes about garbage, penises and parenthood.

  Louis C. K.

  People, Laughing, Creative

  A statement from Louis C. K., louisck.net. December 13, 2011.

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• I address a strong appeal from my heart that the dignity and safety of the worker always be protected.

  Pope Francis

  Strong, Heart, Safety

  Pope Francis @franciscus, www.instagram.com. April 28, 2016.

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• What a shame that Christianity had come here!If the white man had not intruded where he was not wanted, where he did not belong, even now protected by the mountains and the river,the village would have remained a last stronghold of a culture which was almost gone.Mark tried to say that no village,no culture can remain static. I have often thought that if this lively and magnificent land belongs to anyone,it's to the birds and the fish.They were here long before the first Indian and when the last man is gone from the Earth,it will be theirs again.

  Margaret Craven

  Men, Land, Rivers

  Margaret Craven (1973). “I Heard the Owl Call My Name”

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• No matter how much women prefer to lean, to be protected and supported, nor how much men desire to have them do so, they must make the voyage of life alone, and for safety in an emergency they must know something of the laws of navigation.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Men, Law, Safety

  "Solitude of Self". Address to the Committee of the Judiciary of the United States Congress, January 18, 1892.

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• Politically popular speech has always been protected: even the Jews were free to say ‘Heil Hitler.’

  Isaac Asimov

  Speech, Jew

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• Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth. If you imagine yourself having to spend two and a bit hours cooking bolognaise, remembering a whole major work by David Hare and speaking it at the correct moment between chopping carrots and stirring the onions in front of an audience - the normal human response is 'Please, can I go to the airport?'

  Bill Nighy

  Play, Ideas, Two

  Interview with Sarah Crompton, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 10, 2014.

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• We need freedom to roam across land owned by no one but protected by all, whose unchanging horizon is the same that bounded the world of our millennial ancestors.

  E. O. Wilson

  Land, Needs, Horizon

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• To ensure that children are protected, the abuse and exploitation of children must be brought to light and those who violate children brought to justice.

  Ann Veneman

  Children, Light, Justice

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• If we do not get a universal acceptance of the constitution the likelihood of the violence continuing is there. If it had been an inclusive exercise -- as when everybody had embraced the constitution and everyone saw his interest protected by the constitution -- I think it would have been a rallying exercise. We are not there at this stage

  Kofi Annan

  Acceptance, Exercise, Thinking

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• Never lose sight of this maxim, that you should establish your cantonments at the most distant and best protected point from the enemy, especially where a surprise is possible. By this means you will have time to unite all your forces before he can attack you.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Mean, Sight

  Napoleon Bonaparte (2012). “Napoleon's Military Maxims”, p.30, Courier Corporation

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• Good and decent people must be protected and persuaded by gentle means, but the rabble must be led by terror.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Mean, Power, People

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• My own philosophy is that you don't really belong to yourself. You have an obligation to the society which protected you when you were brought into the world, which taught you, which supported you and nurtured you. You have an obligation to repay it.

  Jacob K. Javits

  Philosophy, World, Taught

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