Quotes About Protection
twisted form of Omerta, the Sicilian code of silence, and frankly, it's protected many a bad doctor and some true butchers.
~ John J. Nance
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You humanoids worry about your kids being pushed around by bullies, and rightfully so. But think about this: We had bona fide bulls at my school. Yea, monstrous creatures with huge torsos, gargantuan horns - and when they were pissed - gross stuff oozed out of their gigantic noses.
~ John J. Parrino
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Hermes therefore serves to exemplify one of the Royal Navy's key problems during the interwar period: without influential aviators in its ranks the navy was poorly placed to anticipate technical and tactical developments in aviation, and preferred to design ships in which seagoing qualities, protection and anti-aircraft capabilities took precedence over the size, capability and ease of operation of the air group.
~ John Jordan
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If I had my way no one should be taught to read until after he had passed his hundredth year. In that way, and in that way only can we protect our youth from the dreadful influence of such novels as 'Three Cycles, Not To Mention The Rug,' which dreadful book I have found within the past month in the hands of at least twenty children in the neighborhood, not one of whom was past sixty.
~ JOHN KENDRICK BANGS
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We sketch monsters on the map because we find their presence comforting. They guard the edges of the abyss, and force us to look away; so we can live comfortably in the Known World, at least for a little while.
~ John Koenig
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trueholding n. the act of trying to keep an amazing discovery to yourself, fighting the urge to shout about it from the rooftops because you're afraid that it'll end up being diluted and distorted, and will no longer have been created just for you.
~ John Koenig
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Our soldiers have nobly fought to protect freedom since our country's birth, and have fought to protect those that could not protect themselves, even in foreign lands when called upon.
~ John Linder
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Under the Wildlife and Countryside Act, it is explicitly illegal in Britain to use a machine gun to kill a hedgehog.
~ John Lloyd
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One hundred and one. No person above seventeen years of age shall have any benefit or protection of the law, or be capable of any place of profit or honor, who is not a member of some church or profession, having his name recorded in some one, and but one religious record at once.
~ John Locke
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This shows how much numbers of men are to be preferred to largeness of dominions ; and that the increase of lands, and the right of employing of them, is the great art of government: and that prince, who shall be so wise and godlike, as by established laws of liberty to secure protection and encouragement to the honest industry of mankind, against the oppression of power and narrowness of party, will quickly be too hard for his neighbours: but this by the by. To return to the argument in hand.
~ John Locke
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This is to think that men are so foolish that they take care to avoid what mischiefs can be done them by polecats and foxes, but are content, nay, think it safety, to be devoured by lions.
~ John Locke
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Children don't have hearts yet, not really. They haven't been hurt into the need for one.
~ John Logan
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Bans on large-capacity magazines are more or less exclusively obeyed by law-abiding citizens, and will prevent concealed handgun permit holders from carrying many bullets in their guns.15 Concealed handgun permit holders usually don't carry multiple guns or magazines, whereas attackers often arm themselves to the teeth. Magazine limits mean that criminals are more likely to out-gun law-abiding citizens.
~ John Lott
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Semiautomatic weapons are also used to protect people and save lives. Single-shot rifles that require reloading by hand may not do people a lot of good when they are facing multiple criminals. The first shot may also miss or fail to stop an attacker. People wanting to protect themselves and their families might not have the luxury of time to reload their guns.
~ John Lott
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Americans use guns defensively about 2 million times a year — about 5 times more frequently than guns are used to commit crimes.
~ John Lott
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police explain that the job of protecting people is their own,
~ John Lott
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The claim that guns are rarely used in self-defense comes from only counting defensive actions that result in the death of the attacker. But by any measure, only a fraction of one percent of defensive gun uses result in the criminal attacker being killed or wounded. In 95% of the cases, merely brandishing a firearm is enough to fend off an attacker.
~ John Lott
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Take a bite out of crime
~ John M. Keil
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Let no stranger intrude here, no invader trespass. This was ours, and this we would defend.
~ John Marsden
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guards, while the ferret searched his pitiful left
~ John Martin
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Fathers be good to your daughters. Daughters will love like you do. Girls become lovers who turn into mothers. So, mothers be good to your daughters too.
~ John Mayer
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Wasn't that how people in other countries viewed all American people—with their innocence, their Disney, their inability to drive stick shift? With the way they were protected—the way I was protected—from so much of the "reality" that happened elsewhere?
~ Elif Batuman
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They think their worldly learning and high positions with the enemies of God will protect them against following the Divine Messenger of God. Wait and see.
~ Elijah Muhammad
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Yet his mother always stocks the fridge like the offensive line of the Philadelphia Eagles are coming for dinner.
~ Elin Hilderbrand
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