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Protection Quotes
"If it tries to take you," Wren said, "I wont' let go."
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"I was free with every road as my home. No limitations and no commitments. But then summer passed and winter came and I fell short for safety. I fell for its spell, slowly humming me to sleep, because I was tired and small, too weak to take or handle those opinions and views, attacking me from every angle. Against my art, against my self, against my very way of living. I collected my thoughts, my few possessions and built isolated walls around my values and character. I protected my own definition of beauty and success like a treasure at the bottom of the sea, for no one saw what I saw, or felt the same as I did, and so I wanted to keep to myself. You hide to protect yourself."
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"Why can't you place a blessing like that on us?" I asked."It only works on wild animals.""So it would only affect Percy," Annabeth reasoned."Hey!" I protested."
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"I am willing to admit that if the agriculturists are oppressed by peculiar burdens, they ought to be relieved from them, or be allowed a fair and just protection equivalent to all such peculiar burdens."
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"Steer clear of negativity and set boundaries so that when people bring it on, you can engage your force-field to deflect their distracting energy."
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"Because being comfortable meant she might lower her guard, and she could not let that happen."
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"I'll leave you guys to get acquainted. Somebody show Leo to dinner when it's time? "I got it, one of the girls said. Nyssa, Leo remembered. She wore camo pants, a tank top that showed off her buff arms, and a red bandanna over her mop of dark hair. Except for the smiley-face Band-Aid on her chin, she looked like one of those female action heroes, like any second she was going to grab a machine gun and start mowing down evil aliens. "Cool, Leo said. "I always wanted a sister who could beat me up."
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"I was never afraid of the dark and I spent my youth walking through empty playgrounds at midnight, worried mothers telling girls to be careful and the world is an ugly place and not everyone wants you well. But I was not afraid and I wished for adrenaline to make my veins pulsate in that way that puts them more on the outside of my skin than inside.After the first night with you I never walked alone at night again because suddenly I had something to lose. Something to save."
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"I'm a bit cynical that it ever will be addressed properly. I think it is healthy to get some sort of copyright protection. But some of it has gone on forever."
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"If people are connected with God, they would be safe."
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"There is no proportional representation requirement in the Equal Protection Clause."
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"My only thought was to keep him away from Annabeth."
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"All may not be well but, sometimes, things that seem so uncanny are what shield and protect us from the worst situations in life."
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"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."
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"The arm of God is never too short to save us."
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"Only God can thwart the plans of Satan and his legions."
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"Stop using him, and start protecting him. I know he thinks he doesn't need it, but sometimes he does. Sometimes we all do."
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"You shall not be afraid of the adversary. God will be your strong fortress."
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"I'd paralyze anyone who wanted to hurt me."
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"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?"
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"Travellers scowl at us, and countrymen give us scornful names. 'Strider' I am to one fat man who lives within a day's march of foes that would freeze his heart, or lay his little town in ruin, if he were not guarded ceaselessly. Yet we would not have it otherwise. If simple folk are free from care and fear, simple they will be, and we must be secret to keep them so."
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"It hurts real bad to have that protection barrier between parent and child."
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"There are two kinds of people in this world, son. Those who save lives, and those who take lives.""And what of those who protect and defend? Those who save lives by taking lives?""That's like trying to stop a storm by blowing harder. Ridiculous. You can't protect by killing."
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"We live in a blatantly corrupt world and smart people engage in the wise practice of risk management."
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"We overcome the world because God is our shield and protection."
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"Love tames the benumbed beast. A man is put to use regarding a woman's physical safety, but a woman is put to use regarding a man's mental safety."
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"I've never been afraid of them. Not once. Because I had you."
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"Wall your life, guard your heart and mind your mind! A life without a wall least blocks something! A mind without a wall accepts anything at all!"
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"Panic is more like protection from the danger, stuff when they don't go on plan it's a code on "how much humans we are"..."
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"When Nico had woken up at Barrachina and found the Hunters' note about kidnapping Reyna, he'd torn apart the courtyard in rage. He didn't want the Hunters stealing another important person from him. Fortunately, he'd got Reyna back, but he didn't like how brooding she had become. Every time he tried to ask her about the incident on the Calle San Jose " those ghosts on the balcony, all staring at her, whispering accusations " Reyna shut him down."
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"The Lord is my 'Strong Fortress'. The Lord is my 'Solid Rock'."
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"One day Your dog is going to safe your life, that's a fact."
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"I needed to protect her from this - and from herself."
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"In times of trouble, may the Lord keep you safe."
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"The Lord delivers us from the seventh trouble. He shall surely deliver us from the eight one."
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"The one who protects the body-complex (pudgal) is not the 'enlightened one' (Gnani). A Gnani is the protector of only the Soul and it's natural attributes."
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"Though he was not as dastardly as Esmé or Count Olaf or the hook-handed man, Jerome was still an ersatz guardian, because a real guardian is supposed to provide a home, with a place to sleep and something to wear, and all Jerome had given them in the end was 'Good luck.' Jerome reached the end of the block and turned left, and the Baudelaires were once again alone in the world."
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"Patients are almost always preceded by their parents, because no matter how fast an ambulance can drive, terrified parents can drive faster."
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"One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on."
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"She doesnt want your dark embrace. She'll let you hold her for a short time but she won't submit to that kind of weakness and she'll only let you get so close. In the past it was easier pushing you into the arms of another rather than face what was or what could be. She doesn't want to love; not now, so she'll close the door and toss the key."
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"I'll find you. There is no place in this world you can hide from me. I'm watching.Love, Dimitri."
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"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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"They may take you for a fool, promise to shower you with the world, use their canny devastating tongue to manipulate and dominate your mind, but its better to put them bulshit people at arms length rather than falling into the arms of infidelity."
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"If you want to have a big and strong church, then you need to build a prayer wall of defense in the spiritual realm..."
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"Yes! If you really love your beautiful garden of dreams, you will never allow any hungry beast to have its way in. Keep dream killers away!"
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"The reason everything falls apart around me, but I don't is because my angels keep me standing up."
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