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• That the sum of a man's life was not where he wound up but in the details that brought him there. That we made mistakes. I closed my eyes, sick of the riddles, and to my surprise all I could see were dandelions-as if they had been painted on the fields of my imagination, a hundred thousand suns. And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mistake, Eye, Men

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

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• A weapon you held and didn't know how to use belonged to your enemy.

  Terry Pratchett

  Enemy, Use, Knows

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• A man was the cause of it all. An unarmed man with a weapon.

  Frank O'Hara

  Men, Causes, Unarmed

  "The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara".

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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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• The [Booker] prize was actually responsible in many ways for my political activism. I won this thing and I was suddenly the darling of the new emerging Indian middle class – they needed a princess. They had the wrong woman. I had this light shining on me at the time, and I knew that I had the stage to say something about what was happening in my country. What is exciting about what I have done since is that writing has become a weapon, some kind of ammunition.

  Arundhati Roy

  Country, Princess, Writing

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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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• I think your mythology would call them fallen angels. War and hate are their business, and one of their chief weapons is un-Naming - making people not know who they are. If someone knows who he is, really knows, then he doesn't need to hate. That's why we still need Namers, because there are places throughout the universe like your planet Earth. When everyone is really and truly Named, then the Echthroi will be vanquished.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Hate, War, Angel

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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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• But fear no more! I would not take this thing, if it lay by the highway. Not were Minas Tirith falling in ruin and I alone could save her, so, using the weapon of the Dark Lord for her good and my glory. No, I do not wish for such triumphs, Frodo son of Drogo.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Fall, Son, Dark

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.656, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• Of all the weapons she had commanded, Elizabeth knew the least of love; and of all the weapons in the world, love was the most dangerous.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  World Love, World, Dangerous

  Seth Grahame-Smith, Jane Austen, Roberto Parada (2009). “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance--now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem”, p.241, Chronicle Books

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• One could mention many lovable traits in Smee. For instance, after killing, it was his spectacles he wiped instead of his weapon.

  James M. Barrie

  Pirate, Killing, Lovable

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.44, 谷月社

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• Weapons may be carried by creatures who are evil, dishonest, violent or lazy. The true warrior is good, gentle and honest. His bravery comes from within himself; he learns to conquer his own fears and misdeeds. —Matthias

  Brian Jacques

  Warrior, Evil, Bravery

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• What are all these?" Clary asked. "Vials of holy water, blessed knives, steel and silver blades," Jace said, piling the weapons on the floor beside him, "electrum wire - not much use at the moment but it's always good to have spares - silver bullets, charms of protetion, crucifixes, stars of David-" "Jesus," said Clary "I doubt he'd fit." "Jace." Clary was appalled.

  Cassandra Clare

  Jesus, Stars, Blessed

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.231, Simon and Schuster

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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 press today is an army with carefully organized weapons, the journalists its officers, the readers its soldiers. The reader neither knows nor is supposed to know the purposes for which he is used and the role he is to play.

  Oswald Spengler

  Army, Play, Soldier

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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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• Now there's something I understand a little better. Hate, sadness, even joy. to be able to share it with another person...Naruto Uzumaki from fighting him i learned that. he knew pain like i did and then he taught me that you can change your path. I wish that one day i can be needed by someone. Not as a frightening weapon...But as the sand's Kazekage.

  Masashi Kishimoto

  Pain, Hate, Sadness

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• And she, the new mother of a daughter, felt a fierceness come over her that seized at her heart, that made her feel as if her bones were turned to steel, as if she could turn herself into a weapon to keep this daughter of hers from having to be hurt by the world outside the ring of her arms.

  Lauren Groff

  Daughter, Mother, Hurt

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• He made a weak attempt to look innocent, but I knew better. "Should I guess how many concealed weapons you have or should I strip search you?" "A strip search is the only way to be absolutely certain." Valek's deep blue eyes danced with delight.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Eye, Blue, Looks

  Maria V. Snyder (2008). “The Study Series Bundle: Poison Study\Assassin Study\Magic Study\Fire Study”, MIRA

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• But they woke him with words, their cruel bright weapons.

  T. H. White

  T.H. White (2012). “The Book of Merlyn: The Unpublished Conclusion to The Once and Future King”, p.72, University of Texas Press

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• Doesn't miss many meals, does he?" Zeus muttered. "Tyson, for your bravery in the war, and for leading the Cyclopes, you are appointed a general I. The armies of Olympus. You shall henceforth lead you breathren into war whenever required by the gods. And you shall have a new...um...what kind of weapon would you like? A sword? An axe?" "Stick!" Tyson said, showing his broken club. "Very well," Zeus said. "We will grant you a new, er, stick. The best stick that may be found." "Hooray!

  Rick Riordan

  War, Army, Broken

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