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• “Firewall” seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides “military” and “government?”

  Adam McKay

  Military, Government, Scary

  "6 O’Clock (Pacific Time) High" by Adam McKay, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2008.

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• A lot is being done to bring additional protective measures, particularly the critical infrastructure locations around the United States, ... There is a very active ... program of
  coordination on this particular period of time with both public and private entities and at the federal, state and local levels.

  Condoleezza Rice

  United States, Done, Levels

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• With each passage of human growth we must shed a protective structure . We are left exposed and vulnerable - but also yeasty and embryonic again, capable of stretching in ways we hadn't known before.

  Gail Sheehy

  Growth, Way, Vulnerable

  Gail Sheehy (1977). “Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life”, Bantam

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• Keep braiding one's wavelengths back into oneself. That way they gain all the more external power and surround us with a huge affective and protective zone. Don't talk about this. Never talk about our secret methods. If we talk about them, they stop working.

  Jean Cocteau

  Silence, Secret, Way

  Jean Cocteau, Pierre Chanel (1988). “Past tense: diaries”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• You have been an apprentice long enough; it is now time to shed your protective skin. Trust!

  Mooji

  Trust, Long, Skins

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• Certainty sees things in restrictive, protective, aggressive ways, and thus isn't seeing at all.

  Jerry Saltz

  Doubt, Way, Aggressive

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• The ideal protective layer for a lithium metal anode needs to be chemically stable to protect against the chemical reactions with the electrolyte and mechanically strong to withstand the expansion of the lithium during charge.

  Steven Chu

  Strong, Expansion, Needs

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• In our society, most of us wear protective masks of various kinds and for various reasons. Very often the end result is that the masks grow to us, displacing our original characters with our assumed characters.

  Clarence John Laughlin

  Character, Our Society, Kind

  Clarence John Laughlin, Lafcadio Hearn, Philadelphia Museum of Art (1973). “Clarence John Laughlin: the personal eye”

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• Fear has been my biggest friend. Fear of the unknown. Whenever I've been afraid, I've been very self-protective.

  Erin O'Connor

  Self, Fear Of The Unknown, Has Beens

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• I realised how paranoid and guarded and not trusting - walled-in - I had become. Not consciously so, but just this armour that I kind of have, protective armour. It's not for my friends or family, but for being.outside in the world, always on guard.

  Jennifer Aniston

  World, Kind, Paranoid

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• I probably have an earlier curfew than anyone. My mom wants to keep me really safe and my dad's not overly protective, but he's a dad no matter what.

  Miley Cyrus

  Mom, Dad, Safety

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• My children are my children. There's no doubt about that at all. They're very strong towards me, very protective, and I towards them. It works both ways.

  Kiri Te Kanawa

  Strong, Children, Doubt

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• Most people have this protective view of the presidency. Anybody who holds the office is always gonna get the benefit of the doubt unless the media spends four years destroying them like they did Bush, and with Bush not returning fire.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Views, Media, Years

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• My little sister Aliana's opinions are the most important to me. She says, 'I want to look like you, you're so pretty!' But she is very beautiful and so she is trouble in the making! She wants to do what I do. I'm like her second mother and I am very protective of her.

  Lindsay Lohan

  Beautiful, Mother, Little Sister

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• I stand up for other people, I'm very protective of people around me. If I feel like somebody is getting a bad rap or being unfairly picked on, I will stand up for them, absolutely.

  Christina Ricci

  Rap, People, Feels

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• I'm fiercely protective of my children even though we are on TV.

  Kimora Lee Simmons

  Children, Tvs, My Children

  "Couple of the Moment: Kimora & Djimon" by Marshall Heyman, www.harpersbazaar.com. January 14, 2008.

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• In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.

  Alice Walker

  Men, Mirrors, Self

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• Not everyone is willing to embrace liberty; liberty requires not just effort, but risk. Some people choose to delude themselves and see their chains as protective armor.

  Terry Goodkind

  People, Effort, Risk

  Terry Goodkind (2010). “Chainfire”, p.85, Macmillan

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• With the arrival of electric technology, man extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree that this is so, it is a development that suggests a desperate and suicidal autoamputation, as if the central nervous system could no longer depend on the physical organs to be protective buffers against the slings and arrows of outrageous mechanism.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Suicidal, Technology, Men

  "Understanding media: the extensions of man".

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• The mother...swinging the children by pulling on a length of string, while at the same time she kept and eye on them with that protective watchfulness, half animal, half angelic, which is the quality of motherhood.

  Victor Hugo

  Mother, Children, Eye

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• I laughed. It was just like Owen to make excuses for someone else’s shortcomings. Even fictional characters. Owen found my tendency to speak my mind “refreshingly honest,” and hailed Marc’s temper as “a deep protective instinct.” He said Ethan “thoroughly enjoyed life,” and that Parker “really knew how to have a good time.” According to Owen, we were all doing just fine, and all was right with the world.

  Rachel Vincent

  Character, Mind, World

  Rachel Vincent (2016). “Rogue”, p.230, MIRA

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• You once said to me that I talk like a man in a book. I not only talk, but think and feel like one. I have spent my life in books; literature has deeply dyed my brain its own colour. This literary colouring is a protective one--like the brown of the rabbit or the checks of the quail--making it impossible for me to tell where literature ends and I begin.

  Nathanael West

  Book, Men, Thinking

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• It's an amazing feeling to know that life is actually growing inside your body. The first time you see the ultrasound and you see the little bones and you realise that it's part of you and it's in your care is life changing and this sort of protective instinct has taken over.

  Halle Berry

  Life Changing, Taken, Ultrasounds

  "Yummy Working Mummy". Sunday Herald Sun, October 21, 2007.

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• The intention behind the protective use of force is to prevent injury, never to punish or to cause individuals to suffer, repent or change.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Suffering, Use

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• My parents were very protective. I couldn't even cross the street without them getting all excited, and placing bets.

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Humor, Parent

  "E=MO²". Comedy album, 1985.

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