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• From the empty grave of Jesus the enemies of the cross turn away in unconcealable dismay. Those whom the force of no logic can convince, and whose hearts are steeled against the appeal of almighty love from the cross itself, quail before the irresistible power of this simple fact. Christ has risen from the dead! After two thousand years of the most determined assault upon the evidence which demonstrates it, that fact stands. And so long as it stands Christianity, too, must stand as the one supernatural religion.

  B. B. Warfield

  Jesus, Easter, Heart

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• I rarely use the internet for research, as I find the process cumbersome and detestable. The information gained is often untrustworthy and couched in execrable prose. It is unpleasant to sit in front of a twitching screen suffering assault by virus, power outage, sluggish searches, system crashes and the lack of direct human discourse.

  Annie Proulx

  Atmosphere, Suffering, Hustle

  "Close Range: Wyoming Stories". Book by Annie Proulx, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 1999.

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• I think we're at a place wherea woman's health is danger because of whether this family planning or contraception or any issues that relate to women's health, there's an assault on that in the Congress.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Issues, Women's Health

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Fear, if it be not immoderate, puts a guard about us that does watch and defend us; but credulity keeps us naked, and lays us open to all the sly assaults of ill-intending men: it was a virtue when man was in his innocence; but since his fall, it abuses those that own it.

  Owen Feltham

  Fall, Men, Abuse

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• We regard an action of Contract as an action to prevent or compensate for a breach of a promise; an action of Tort as an action to to punish or compensate for a wrong, such as assault or defamation, which has not any necessary connection with a promise.

  Edward Jenks

  Promise, Connections, Action

  Edward Jenks (1922). “A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919”

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• Few people who are hit once by someone they love respond in the way they might to a singular physical assault by a stranger.

  Bell Hooks

  People, Abuse, Might

  bell hooks (2014). “Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black”, p.97, Routledge

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• Deceit and violence - these are the two forms of deliberate assault on human beings.

  Sissela Bok

  Two, Deception, Deceit

  Sissela Bok (2011). “Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life”, p.54, Vintage

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• When a new idea assaults the power of established authority, authority always screams out that morality has been affronted. It makes no difference if this idea is that the world is round or that women should vote or that the workers should control industry.

  Mary Heaton Vorse

  Ideas, Differences, World

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• Thus grows up fashion, an equivocal semblance, the most puissant, the most fantastic and frivolous, the most feared and followed, and which morals and violence assault in vain.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fashion, Growing Up, Violence

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1467, Delphi Classics

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• Hee that would be a Gentleman, let him goe to an assault.

  George Herbert

  Gentleman, Would Be, Let Him Go

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.358

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• Once in a Cabinet we had to deal with the fact that there had been an outbreak of assaults on women at night. One minister suggested a curfew; women should stay home after dark. I said, 'But it's the men who are attacking the women. If there's to be a curfew, let the men stay home, not the women.

  Golda Meir

  Home, Dark, Night

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• It is ordinarily said that criminal law is designed to protect property and to protect persons, and if society's only interest in controlling sex behavior were to protect persons, then the criminal codes concerned with assault and battery should provide adequate protection. The fact that there is a body of sex laws which is apart from the laws protecting persons is evidence of their distinct function, namely that of protecting custom.

  Alfred Kinsey

  Sex, Law, Body

  Alfred C. Kinsey (1998). “Sexual Behavior in the Human Male”, p.4, Indiana University Press

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• nations decay from within more often than they surrender to outward assault.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Decay, Surrender, Nations

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• A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Firsts, Retreat, Surprise

  Lois McMaster Bujold (2000). “A Civil Campaign”, p.178, Baen Books

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• When your institution is under assault, you're feeling like the weight is on it and the history might be flowing away, don't turn inward, go outward.

  David Brooks

  Feelings, Inward, Weight

  "Shields and Brooks on CPAC, Obama’s Outreach to Congress, Pope Francis". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. March 15, 2013.

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• There was no doubt that in the early and mid-eighties that many of us in broadsheet newspapers felt that we still had a responsibility to try to protect the Royal Family or if you like protect the Monarchy from the assaults of the media.

  Max Hastings

  Responsibility, Media, Doubt

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• My focus on silence is to be understood as an intrinsic part of the body's search for meaning amongst the noisy assaults of everyday life. ... What quilts have brought to the viewing of art generally is this intervening layer of silence, of collected thought and concerted attention.

  Radka Donnell

  Art, Quilts, Silence

  Radka Donnell (1990). “Quilts as women's art: a quilt poetics”, Gallerie Pubns

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• Whenever I hear anything described as a heartless assault on our children, I tend to think it’s a good idea.

  William Kristol

  Children, Thinking, Ideas

  "Conservatives Are Such Jokers". www.nytimes.com. October 5, 2007.

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• Their problem is not me and the Democrats; their problem is themselves. Who are they? Are they these extreme conservatives who are right-to-life, pro-assault-weapon, anti-gay? Is that who they are? Because if that's who they are and they're the extreme conservatives, they have no place in the state of New York.

  Andrew Cuomo

  New York, Gay, Assault Weapons

  "Glenn Beck blasts Gov. Cuomo's remark against conservatives". "The Kelly File" with Megyn Kelly, www.foxnews.com. January 21, 2014.

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• No people can more exactly interpret the inmost meaning of the present situation in Ireland than the American Negro. The scheme is simple. You knock a man down and then have him arrested for assault. You kill a man and then hang the corpse.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Men, Simple, People

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• Prison is a second-by-second assault on the soul, a day-to-day degradation of the self, an oppressive steel and brick umbrella that transforms seconds into hours and hours into days.

  Mumia Abu-Jamal

  Self, Soul, Steel

  Mumia Abu-Jamal (1995). “Live from Death Row”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company

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• Form is all we have to help us cope with fundamentally chaotic facts and assaults. Formulating something is a great start. I trust form, trust my feeling or capacity to find the right form for something. Even if that is only by being well organized. That too is form.

  Gerhard Richter

  Feelings, Facts, Helping

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• The urban barbarism that has turned our streets into battlegrounds and our classrooms into killing fields will not be stopped by an assault on the Second Amendment right of American gunowners to keep and bear arms.

  Pat Buchanan

  Second Amendment, Arms, Fields

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• The only people who use them [so-called assault weapons] are mass murderers.

  Charles Schumer

  Assault Weapons, People, Use

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• I think that we should ban so-called junk guns. I think we should ban assault weapons like the weapons used here [in Fort Worth], yes. I think that the kinds of weapons that have no legitimate use for hunting or the kind of weapon that a homeowner would use, I think they should be banned, yes, those kind of weapons.

  Al Gore

  Thinking, Hunting, Gun

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