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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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• Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Strong, Fear, People

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• I think we've already voted at the U.N., in the Security Council, to get rid of nuclear weapons. Let's get rid of them. Let's get rid of ours and then Iran will stop, I believe. And so everybody else will, because if everybody doesn't have them, then we're safe, at least safe from a nuclear attack.

  Ted Turner

  Believe, Thinking, Iran

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• If the perpetrators of the World Trade Center plane crashes had a nuclear weapon, there's no doubt in my mind but that they would've detonated it in New York.

  Ted Turner

  New York, Doubt, Mind

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• If the Russian nuclear arsenal was fired at the United States and other targets, and we fired back at them with thousands of nuclear weapons, it would be the end of life on earth.

  Ted Turner

  United States, Would Be, Nuclear

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• A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Change, Mind, Enemy

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1990). “Vorkosigan's Game”

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• There are some weapons you can't protect yourself against.

  Jodi Picoult

  Protect, Protect Yourself

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Mercy”, p.272, Simon and Schuster

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• I feel moderately bad about this whole thing. On the one hand, I am providing myself with urgently required survival skills. Other lessons in this series include Shoplifting, Beating People Up, Picking Locks, Climbing Trees, Driving, Housebreaking, Dumpster Diving, and How to Use Oddball Things like Venetian Blinds and Garbage Can Lids as Weapons. On the other hand, I’m corrupting my poor innocent little self. I sigh. Somebody’s got to do it.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Skills, Climbing, Self

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• When I, who is called a "weapon" or a "monster", fight a real monster, I can fully realize that I am just a "human".

  Hiromu Arakawa

  Real, Fighting, Alchemist

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• Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes.

  David Foster Wallace

  Nuclear, Tvs, Tendencies

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• You know, the Philistines have long since discarded the rack and stake as a means of suppressing the opinions they feared: they've discovered a much more deadly weapon of destruction -- the wisecrack.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Mean, Long, Razors

  W. Somerset Maugham (2008). “The Razor's Edge”, p.305, Random House

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• The good Bishop of Assisi expressed a sort of horror at the hard life which the Little Brothers lived at the Portiuncula, without comforts, without possessions, eating anything they could get and sleeping anyhow on the ground. St. Francis answered him with that curious and almost stunning shrewdness which the unworldly can sometimes wield like a club of stone. He said, 'If we had any possessions, we should need weapons and laws to defend them.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Brother, Sleep, Law

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• In prehistoric times, Homo sapiens was deeply endangered. Early humans were less fleet of foot, with fewer natural weapons and less well-honed senses than all the predators that threatened them. Moreover, they were hampered in their movements by the need to protect their uniquely immature young - juicy meals for any hungry beast.

  Robert Winston

  Feet, Immature, Meals

  "Philip Roth was wrong" by Robert Winston, www.theguardian.com. December 16, 2005.

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• However, the resources at our people's disposal are very few and we require assistance from the neighboring Arab countries, and for weapons in order to fight the enemy.

  Ahmed Yassin

  Country, Fighting, Order

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• If you make your heart into a weapon, you end up using it on yourself.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Heart, Shantaram, Ends

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.412, Macmillan

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• Cancer is messy and scary. You throw everything at it, but don't forget to throw love at it. It turns out that might be the best weapon of all.

  Regina Brett

  Cancer, Scary, Might

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• There's detailed information on how to assemble a nuclear weapon from parts. There's books about how to build a nuclear bomb.

  Irwin Redlener

  Book, Nuclear, Bombs

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• Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Book, Ignorance, Ideas

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1965). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964”, p.285, Best Books on

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• No one expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise, fear and surprise; two chief weapons, fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency! Er, among our chief weapons are: fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, and near fanatical devotion to the Pope! Um, I'll come in again.

  Graham Chapman

  Two, Surprise, Pope

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• A sneer is the weapon of the weak.

  James Russell Lowell

  Criticism, Weak, Critics

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.56

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• How noble. Oh we would fell many...-you with magic and blade, whilst my weapons would be tooth and claw-but it would be futile in the end. They are too numerous.... We cannot defeat them, only be defeated. - Saphira

  Christopher Paolini

  Magic, Teeth, Would Be

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• Yet if he upbraided her in his hurry, it was to repent bitterly his temper the next, and to feel its effects more than she, temper being a weapon that we hold by the blade.

  James M. Barrie

  Next, Blades, Temper

  James M. Barrie (2013). “The Little Minister (Illustrated Edition)”, p.94, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The rule is that if they have a weapon and want to take you someplace else, it is so they can kill you slower--Peter

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Want, Peter, Ifs

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2007). “The Harlequin: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.271, Penguin

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• The Swiss have an interesting army. Five hundred years without a war. Pretty impressive. Also pretty lucky for them. Ever seen that little Swiss Army knife they have to fight with? Not much of a weapon there. Corkscrews. Bottle openers. ‘Come on, buddy, let’s go. You get past me, the guy in the back of me, he’s got a spoon. Back off, I’ve got the toe clippers right here.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Funny, War, Fighting

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• Having been away from you offical duties," Arch said as the Miller's hand lowered to his side, "you might not have hearc, but I've developed a weapon capable of destroying all of Boaderland, Wonderland, Morgavia, Unterlan and who knows what else. I call it WILMA, which stands for Weapon of Inconceivable Loss and Massive Annihilation. It also happens to be the name of one of my former wives, who had to be put down on account of her feisty temper.

  Frank Beddor

  Loss, Hands, Names

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