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"He was being about as protective as a can-opener."
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"I'd paralyze anyone who wanted to hurt me."

"The Lord is my 'Strong Fortress'. The Lord is my 'Solid Rock'."

"If you want to have a big and strong church, then you need to build a prayer wall of defense in the spiritual realm..."

"One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on."

"Guard your energy by setting boundaries, just saying 'no," and limiting your interactions with people who drain you. The measure-how do they make you feel?"

"How can you protect yourself by carrying a sword if you don't know how to use it?'Not me, sir. Other people. They see the sword and don't attack me,' said Maladict patiently.Yes, but if they did, lad, you wouldn't be any good with it,' said the sergeant.No, sir. I'd probably settle for just ripping their heads off, sir. That's what I mean by protection, sir. Theirs, not mine. And I'd get hell from the League if I did that, sir."

"I am charging you with the protection of my mother and friends, not to mention keeping my younger self off the Internet. He is as dangerous as Opal."

"Patients are almost always preceded by their parents, because no matter how fast an ambulance can drive, terrified parents can drive faster."

"Protect your good image from the eyes of negative viewers, who may look at your good appearance with an ugly fiendish eye, and ruin your positive qualities with their chemical infested tongues. If the words from the mouth of an abusive man makes you angry, quit the whole arena and you'll discover he had got his mouth shut."
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"Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject."

"The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to marry her. ... The great man, on the other hand, could marry where he liked, not being restricted to great women; indeed, it was often found sweet and commendable in him to choose a woman of no sort of greatness at all."

"What women want as a class is irrelevant. I want to know about Aristotle. It is true that most women care nothing about him, and a great many male undergraduates turn pale and faint at the thought of him-but I, eccentric individual that I am, do want to know about Aristotle, and I submit that there is nothing in my shape or bodily functions which need prevent my knowing about him."

"As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less, Who goes to bed with whom."

"Every woman is a human being-one cannot repeat that too often-and a human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world."

"There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will have learnt all the tricks."

"Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development."

"To learn six subjects without remembering how they were learnt does nothing to ease the approach to a seventh, to have learnt and remembered the art of learning makes the approach to every subject an open door."

"I suppose one oughtn't to marry anybody, unless one's prepared to make him a full-time job."Probably not; though there are a few rare people, I believe, who don't look on themselves as jobs but as fellow creatures."
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