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• When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense that the president has adopted since September 11.

  Ed Gillespie

  Moving, Self, September 11

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• How sad it is when a luxurious imagination is obliged in self defense to deaden its delicacy in vulgarity, and riot in things attainable that it may not have leisure to go mad after things that are not.

  John Keats

  Self, Mad, Imagination

  John Keats (2002). “Selected Letters of John Keats”

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• Casting a spell, in self-defense or in self-interest is not selfish, but positive, life-affirming. You have been given powers, the very same powers that society devalues... What if it comes back tenfold? Well, don't be a fool. Never use your magick to attack the innocent. Then you have nothing to fear... Don't be frivolous or cowardly. If your course is righteous, and your tools ready, go to it.

  Zsuzsanna Budapest

  Selfish, Positive Life, What If

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• I am convinced of the necessity to take an effective measure of self defense.

  Seishiro Itagaki

  Self, Defense, Convinced

  Oakland Tribune Newspaper, February 21, 1939.

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• I was very unique as a child, dressed a certain way, acted a certain way, didnt fit in with everybody. So I immediately got picked on, especially around the age of 12 and 13, when you start going to junior high and start mingling with the older kids. To counteract that, strictly for self-defense, I wanted to get bigger.

  John Cena

  Children, Kids, Unique

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• You mostly.” Her hands went still again as her eyes stared off into the past with a look so wistful it made me ache for her. “The boys tended to take care of each other but you were too much for anyone else to handle.” I poked at the ball of yarn avoiding her eyes. “I wasn’t that bad.” She smiled. “You broke Ethan’s arm.” “It was self-defense. He wouldn’t let go of my foot.” “He was helping you tie your shoe.

  Rachel Vincent

  Letting Go, Eye, Boys

  Rachel Vincent (2016). “Stray”, p.132, MIRA

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• My only means of self defense is to wiggle my eye and feign being a salamander. It has saved my life but once I was partially eaten by a bald eagle who thought I was a salamander. Hence, my skills. Hence.

  Thom Yorke

  Mean, Eye, Self

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• As far as I was concerned, the Panthers were 'baaaaaad.' The Party was more than bad; it was bodacious. The sheer audacity of walking onto the California Senate floor with rifles, demanding that Black people have the right to bear arms and the right to self-defense, made me sit back and take a long look at them.

  Assata Shakur

  Party, Self, California

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• If you want to find weapons of destruction, you can find them all over the place. Take, say, Israel. There is a very great concern right now about proliferation of nuclear weapons, as there should be. Israel has a couple of hundred nuclear weapons and also chemical and biological weapons. This stockpile is not only a threat in itself but encourages others to proliferate in reaction and in self-defense. Is anybody saying anything about this?

  Noam Chomsky

  Couple, Israel, Self

  Source: progressive.org

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• The dream of my life has risen to become fact. Self-defense in the ghetto will have been a reality. Jewish armed resistance and revenge are facts. I have been a witness to the magnificent, heroic fighting of Jewish men in battle.

  Mordechai Anielewicz

  Dream, Revenge, Ghetto

  "The Jew in the Modern World: A Documentary History". Book edited by Paul R. Mendes-Flohr, Jehuda Reinharz, p. 675, letter to Yitzhak Cukierman (April 23, 1943), 1995.

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• A half century ago Herbert Wechsler could justify the legal right of deadly force self-defense in terms of the "universal judgment that there is no social interest in preserving the lives of the aggressors at the cost of those of their victims." That is not a universal judgment today.

  Don Kates

  Life, Self, Defense

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• Know what is behind you, and pay particular attention to anything out of place.

  Jeff Cooper

  Attention, Pay, Behind You

  Jeff Cooper (2006). “Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition”, p.14, Paladin Press

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• You do not have the right to take another human's life, unless it's in strict self-defense.

  Michael Moore

  Self, Defense, Strict

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• The Second Amendment does protect the right to people to possess weapons for self-defense in the home. That's what the Supreme Court said.

  Laurence Tribe

  Home, Self, People

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• But Nightshirts aren't dangerous," Pippi assured her. "They don't bite anybody except in self defense.

  Astrid Lindgren

  Self, Defense, Dangerous

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• My new 9mm didn’t fit my hand as well as my old one, but it was rapidly becoming a familiar weight. At first I’d decided it was okay to wear as long as I shot only at supernatural bad guys who were already shooting at me. Lately, I’d had to broaden that definition to anytime my life was in danger. I was currently leaning toward a slightly more comprehensive rule somewhere between proactive self-defense and the-bastards-had-it-coming, which, if I survived long enough, I intended to blame on my deranged partner rubbing off on me.

  Karen Chance

  Self, Hands, Long

  Karen Chance (2011). “Cassie Palmer Novels 1-5”, p.650, Penguin

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• When you imagine mistakes, there can be no self-defense.

  Frank Herbert

  Mistake, Self, Defense

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

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• However, a Jedi who only fights in self defense and draws his lightsaber only to defend the innocent or to strike down his foe as quickly and painlessly as possible, that's what the lightsaber is for. That's what a Jedi is supposed to be. That's how it's supposed to go down. It's not supposed to be pretty or flashy. It's simply a necessary move. And that's it. Only the most necessary moves survive into the original Star Wars trilogy.

  Samuel Witwer

  War, Moving, Fighting

  Source: www.ign.com

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• The whip degrades; a severe father teaches his children to dissemble; their love is pretense, and their obedience a species of self-defense. Fear is the father of lies.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Children, Father, Lying

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1900). “Discussions”

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• Self-defense is only an illusion, a dark cloak beneath which lurks a razor-sharp dagger waiting to be plunged into the first unwary victim. Whoever declares that any weapon manufactured today, whether it be a nuclear missile or a .38 special, is created for self-defense should look a little more closely at his own image in the mirror. Either he is a liar or is deceiving himself.

  Wong Shun Leung

  Liars, Dark, Mirrors

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• I've come to believe that total nakedness, that is absolute transparency, that is utter and unfettered and profound visibility, is the only way that we can truly love. Anything less, is self-defense.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Love, Believe, Self

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• Part of why I was attracted to the idea of owning a gun was self-defense, and part of it was that I've been fascinated by guns since I was a little kid, and I want to play with them. It seems like a lot of fun.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Fun, Kids, Gun

  "A Talk With The Savage English Professor". Interview with Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. March 5, 2015.

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• At what point is someone precluded from availing themselves of the justification of self-defense because of their own poor judgment or bad behavior?

  Dan Gelber

  Self, Defense, Judgment

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• My father wanted me to learn self-defense, so I enrolled in the Academy and loved it from the start.

  Paige VanZant

  Father, Self, Defense

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• The revolution must end and the republic must begin. In our constitution, right must take the place of duty, welfare that of virtue, and self-defense that of punishment. Everyone must be able to prevail and to live according to one's own nature.

  Georg Buchner

  Self, Punishment, Defense

  "Danton's Death". Play by Georg Büchner, Act I, 1835.

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