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• So maybe it was just as well that my companion was more like Mulder. A coked-out Mulder with a lot of weapons, who knew that the monsters under the bed were real and would gut you.

  Karen Chance

  Real, Bed, Monsters

  Karen Chance (2013). “Tempt the Stars: A Cassie Palmer Novel”, p.50, Penguin

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• No. Not really. A weapon didn't come to an agreement with the hand that held it.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Agreement, Hands

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.332, Scholastic Inc.

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• I don’t want a perfectly safe weapon. I want a dangerous weapon that hurts people.” He took the stick from her, rapped it against her head. She howled and he nodded. “See? It hurts people.

  Derek Landy

  Hurt, People, Safe

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• Our secret weapon, Khione! We're not just a bunch of demigods. We're a team.

  Rick Riordan

  Team, Secret, Bunch

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• Your weapons-master appears to have an actual, beating heart," she said to Raphael. "Who knew?" "Jessamy." "I concede that point." Elena referring to Galen

  Nalini Singh

  Heart, Masters, Said

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• It's then that I realize: Of course Tris would go into the Weapons Lab instead of Caleb. Of course she would.

  Veronica Roth

  Labs, Realizing, Caleb

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• Cowards live for the sake of living, but for heroes, life is a weapon, a thing to be spent, a gift to be given to the weak and the lost and the weary, even to the foolish and the cowardly.

  N.D. Wilson

  Hero, Coward, Sake

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• We must not only control the weapons that can kill us, we must bridge the great disparities of wealth and opportunity among the peoples of the world, the vast majority of whom live in poverty without hope, opportunity or choices in life. These conditions are a breeding ground for division that can cause a desperate people to resort to nuclear weapons as a last resort. Our only hope lies in the power of our love, generosity, tolerance and understanding and our commitment to making the world a better place.

  Muhammad Ali

  Lying, Commitment, Opportunity

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• The power to destroy the world by the use of nuclear weapons is a power that cannot be used - we cannot accept the idea of such monstrous immorality.

  Linus Pauling

  Acceptance, Ideas, World

  "No More War!" by Linus Paulin, New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, (p. 209), 1962.

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• Science has toiled too long forging weapons for fools to use. It is time she held her hand.

  H. G. Wells

  Time, Hands, Long

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.1227, Delphi Classics

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• Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a man allows himself to be made a mere thing or a tool, and surrenders his inalienable rights of reason and conscience. Indeed, this slavery is more complete than that which enslaves the body alone.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Rights, Judging

  "Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau".

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• The politicians in this world... have at their command weapons of mass destruction far more complex than their own thinking processes.

  Charley Reese

  Peace, War, Thinking

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• Nonviolence is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Freedom, Democracy, Weak

  Mahatma Gandhi (1976). “Collected Works”

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• The Russians have a weapon that can wipe out two hundred eighty thousand Americans. That puts them exactly ten years behind Howard Cosell.

  Red Smith

  Sports, Years, Two

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• I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people. I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false. But this knowledge does not outweigh the fact that my class, the working class, is exploited, driven, fought back with the weapon of starvation, with guns and with venal courts whenever they strike for conditions more human, more civilized for their children, and for their children's children.

  Mother Jones

  Children, Knowledge, Gun

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• Continue to instruct the world; and - whilst we carry on a poor unequal conflict with the passions and prejudices of our day, perhaps with no better weapons than other passions and prejudices of our own - convey wisdom to future generations.

  Edmund Burke

  Passion, History, Prejudice

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence Of...Edmund Burke”, p.340

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• Money is not going to organize the disadvantaged, the powerless, or the poor. We need other weapons. That's why the War on Poverty is such a miserable failure. You put out a big pot of money and all you do is fight over it. Then you run out of money and you run out of troops.

  Cesar Chavez

  Running, War, Fighting

  Cesar Chavez, Richard Jay Jensen, John C. Hammerback (2002). “The Words of César Chávez”, p.70, Texas A&M University Press

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• I possess no weapon but love. With that I have come to do battle. Help me!

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Life, Battle, Helping

  Nikos Kazantzakis, Peter Bien (1988). “The Last Temptation of Christ”, p.249, Simon and Schuster

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• AI will make love my greatest weapon and none on whom I call can defend against its force.

  Og Mandino

  Life, Making Love, Force

  "The Greatest Salesman in the World". Book by Og Mandino. Chapter 9: "The Scroll Marked II," p. 58, 1968.

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• I will make love my greatest weapon and none on whom I call can defend against its force.
  My reasoning they may counter; my speech they may distrust; my apparel they may disapprove; my face they may reject; and even my bargains may cause them suspicion; yet my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest clay.
  I will greet this day with love in my heart.

  Og Mandino

  Life, Heart, Making Love

  "The Greatest Salesman in the World". Book by Og Mandino. Chapter 9: "The Scroll Marked II," p. 58, 1968.

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• Non-violence is a very powerful weapon. Most people don't understand the power of non-violence and tend to be amazed by the whole idea. Those who have been involved in bringing about change and see the difference between violence and non-violence are firmly committed to a lifetime of non-violence, not because it is easy or because it is cowardly, but because it is an effective and very powerful way.

  Cesar Chavez

  Peace, Powerful, Differences

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• Can it be that a generation of school children is growing up heedless of the simple truth that the Pentagon's centrla role for many years has been to buy weapons that don't work, against threats that don't exist?

  Alexander Cockburn

  Peace, Children, Growing Up

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• The ideal weapons system is built in 435 congressional districts and it doesn't matter whether it works or not.

  Alain Enthoven

  Peace, Matter, Anti War

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• Our struggle is not easy. Those who oppose our cause are rich and powerful and they have many allies in high places. We are poor. Our allies are few. But we have something the rich do not own. We have our bodies and spirits and the justice of our cause as our weapons.

  Cesar Chavez

  Powerful, Struggle, Justice

  Cesar Chavez (2008). “An Organizer's Tale: Speeches”, p.207, Penguin

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• Our interconnectedness on the planet is the dominating truth of the 21st century. One stark result is that the world's poor live, and especially die, with the awareness that the United States is doing little to mobilise the weapons of mass salvation that could offer them survival, dignity and eventually the escape from poverty.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Truth, Survival, United States

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