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• It was really hard to do that at first. You have been holding onto this thing - even though you know what someone has done before and you have faith in what they can achieve - it's just a matter of whether that's gonna be right for you. At first you do need to be quite protective; to make sure it's going down the right track, so I was pretty nervous to begin with.

  Sarah Blasko

  Track, Needs, Done

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• I'm floating inside my skin. I could go on floating like this for days. Right now, the real world with its heartbreak and disappointments is just a pulse against the protective membrane we've drunk ourselves into. It's somewhere outside us, waiting." A Great and Terrible Beauty, Page 141, by

  Libba Bray

  Disappointment, Real, Drunk

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.126, Delacorte Press

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• There are spirits in Hawaii. They're very protective and very good and they watch over these islands. I must confess, they're not entirely happy with what they see, with the way the civilization is moving. But they're patient. They've been here for a long time, and they'll be here long after the human beings have ceased to inhabit the islands.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Buddhism, Islands

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• I read the book with interest, but when Jackson was a candidate in 1828 for the Presidency, I opposed him and voted for Adams. I favored a protective tariff.

  Ezra Cornell

  Book, Tariffs, Economy

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• My sons are very protective and loving towards me, but I don't know what's in their secret minds about me.

  Kola Boof

  Son, Secret, Mind

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• The other mammoths were as protective of the dying as they were of newborns, and they gathered around tying to make the fallen one get up. When all was over, they buried the dead ancestor under piles of dirt, grass, leaves, or snow. Mammoths were even known to bury other dead animals, including humans.

  Jean M. Auel

  Animal, Snow, Dying

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• People were very protective of me. Overly so. I was in the industry for a long time before I had any idea of what drugs people were doing.

  Joni Mitchell

  Ideas, Long, People

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• I'm 190 pounds of rock hard muscle, underneath 40 pounds of sturdy protective fat.

  John Swartzwelder

  Rocks, Pounds, Sturdy

  John Swartzwelder (2004). “The Time Machine Did It”

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• I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.

  Taylor Swift

  Feelings, Important, Skins

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• That was my earliest maladaptive coping mechanism I forged when I was a kid. I found that my fists weren't going to do any significant protective work for me, so my mouth was it. Making my father laugh was a way to control him.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Father, Kids, Coping Mechanisms

  Source: www.elle.com

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• There was nothing natural about laissez-faire; free markets could never have come into being merely by allowing things to take their course. Just as cotton manufactures were created by the help of protective tariffs, export bounties, and indirect wage subsidies, laissez-faire was enforced by the state.

  Karl Polanyi

  Subsidies, Cotton, Tariffs

  Karl Polanyi (1957). “The Great Transformation”, Beacon Pr

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• over protective? a butler in a grade- B movie? someones jewish mother? you got it

  Margaret Weis

  Mother, Butlers, Grades

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• ... I think it is fair to say that all war photographers hide behind their cameras. I hid behind mine for years and years and years. It was a shield... I think that the photographer in combat has a greater protection than the soldier who has a rifle in his hand. That camera has unbelievable protective power.

  Carl Mydans

  War, Thinking, Hands

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• The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.

  Frank Herbert

  Progress, Shields, Utopia

  Frank Herbert (1999). “Dune”, Ace Hardcover

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• The secret of adventure, then, is not to carefully seek it out but to travel in such a way that it finds you. To do this, you first need to overcome the protective habits of home and open yourself up to unpredictability. As you begin to practice this openness, you'll quickly discover adventure in the simple reality of a world that defies your expectations. More often than not, you'll discover that “adventure” is a decision after the fact-a way of deciphering an event or an experience that you can't quite explain.

  Rolf Potts

  Home, Adventure, Simple

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• Maxims are to the intellect what laws are to actions; they do not enlighten, but they guide and direct, and, although themselves blind, are protective.

  Joseph Joubert

  Law, Action, Enlightening

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• I think a lot of American poets are swimming-pool Soviets. A lot of them have taken the comfortable, self-protective route too often. I know that I certainly have. That's easy to do.

  Sam Hamill

  Taken, Swimming, Thinking

  Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.

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• Sundance is a really special place. They're very protective of movies, especially lower-budget movies.

  Marc Webb

  Special, Budgets, Sundance

  "Exclusive Interview: Director Marc Webb on (500) DAYS OF SUMMER". Interview with Matt Goldberg, collider.com. July 16, 2009.

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• That's the paradox: the only time most people feel alive is when they're suffering, when something overwhelms their ordinary, careful armour, and the naked child is flung out onto the world. That's why the things that are worst to undergo are best to remember. But when that child gets buried away under their adaptive and protective shells—he becomes one of the walking dead, a monster.

  Ted Hughes

  Children, People, Walking Dead

  Ted Hughes, Christopher Reid (2008). “Letters of Ted Hughes”, Farrar Straus & Giroux

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• I'm protective of the reputation of Christ and the church.

  Max Lucado

  Church, Reputation, Christ

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.

  Marquis de Sade

  Add, Mystery, Pleasure

  marquis de Sade (1988). “Juliette”, Grove Press

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• He is just protective over me-” “Not protective, Tania. Consumed.

  Paullina Simons

  Consumed

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• The philosophy that I have worked under most of my life is that the serious study of natural history is an activity which has far-reaching effects in every aspect of a person's life. It ultimately makes people protective of the environment in a very committed way. It is my opinion that the study of natural history should be the primary avenue for creating environmentalists.

  Roger Tory Peterson

  Philosophy, Hard Work, Science

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• In our own beginnings, we are formed out of the body's interior landscape. For a short while, our mothers' bodies are the boundaries and personal geography which are all that we know of the world...Once we no longer live beneath our mother's heart, it is the earth with which we form the same dependent relationship, relying...on its cycles and elements, helpless without its protective embrace.

  Louise Erdrich

  Mother, Appreciation, Heart

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• Trust is the confidence among team members that their peers' intentions are good, and that there is no reason to be protective or careful around the group. In essence, teammates are not comfortable being vulnerable with one another.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Teamwork, Teammate, Groups

  "Five Warning Signs Your Startup Team Is Going To Kill Each Other" by Martin Zwilling, www.businessinsider.com. January 10, 2011.

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