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• If the transmigration of a soul takes place into a rational being, it simply becomes the soul of that body. But if the soul migrates into a brute beast, it follows the body outside, as a guardian spirit follows a man. For there could never be a rational soul in an irrational being.

  Sallust

  Men, Soul, Body

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• Women are the guardians of morality.

  Michel, 14th Prince of Ligne

  Morality

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• Gay men are guardians of the masculine impulse. To have anonymous sex in a dark alleyway is to pay homage to the dream of male freedom. The unknown stranger is a wandering pagan god. The altar, as in pre-history, is anywhere you kneel.

  Camille Paglia

  Dream, Sex, Gay

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.24, Vintage

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• Follow your dreams, transform your life, take the path that leads to God. Perform your miracles. Cure. Make prophecies. Listen to your guardian angel. Transform yourself. Be a warrior, and be happy as you wage the good fight. Take risks.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Angel, Fighting

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• You know, my name .... comes from the word shomer, guardian, watcher. My ancestors were guardians of the ghetto wall in Chortkov. And I believe Hashem [Orthodox for God] actually gave me that name. One of my roles, very important in the United States senate, is to be a shomer - to be a or the shomer Yisrael. And I will continue to be that with every bone in my body.

  Charles Schumer

  Wall, Believe, Ghetto

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• The spectacle is the bad dream of a modern society in chains and ultimately expresses nothing more than its wish for sleep. The spectacle is the guardian of that sleep.

  Guy Debord

  Dream, Sleep, Wish

  Guy Debord (2014). “The Society of the Spectacle”, p.7, Bureau of Public Secrets

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• A guardian angel o'er his life presiding, Doubling his pleasures, and his cares dividing.

  Samuel Rogers

  Life, Angel, Caring

  Samuel Rogers (1856). “Poetical works”, p.147

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• He's the best of us. The best of our best, the best that each of us will ever build or ever love. So pray for this Guardian of our growth and choose him well, for if he be not truly blessed, then our designs are surely frivolous and our future but a tragic waste of hope. Bless our best and adore for he doth bear our measure to the Cosmos.

  John Steakley

  Blessed, Design, Growth

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• There is a single main definition of the object of all magical Ritual. It is the uniting of the Microcosm with the Macrocosm. The Supreme and Complete Ritual is therefore the Invocation of the Holy Guardian Angel; or, in the language of Mysticism, Union with God.

  Aleister Crowley

  Angel, Magic, Uniting

  Aleister Crowley (2014). “Magick in Theory and Practice”, p.14, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The God we worship is no respecter of persons, but He is a respecter of men's rights, and a guardian of them-a fact clearly shown in the heaven-inspired Constitution of our country, and in the Gospel itself, which might be termed the Constitution of Eternity.

  Orson F. Whitney

  Country, Men, Rights

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• TRUST, n. In American politics, a large corporation composed in greater part of thrifty working men, widows of small means, orphans in the care of guardians and the courts, with many similar malefactors and public enemies.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Mean, Men, Enemy

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.226, 谷月社

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• A degree of culture, and assuredly a very high one, is attained when man rises above superstitions and religious notions and fears, and, for instance, no longer believes in guardian angels or in original sin, and has also ceased to talk of the salvation of his soul.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Religious, Atheist, Believe

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• So the nature required to make a really noble Guardian of our commonwealth will be swift and strong, spirited, and philosophic.

  Plato

  Strong, Noble, Clarity

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• From the cradle to the grave she is subject to the power and control of man. Father, guardian, or husband, one conveys her like some piece of merchandise over to the other.

  Ernestine Rose

  Husband, Father, Men

  Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). “Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader”, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• In mauve sea-orchids as in her striking earlier book Guardians of the Secret, Lila Zemborain brings into relationship the viscera of the body and the spill of the universe in tense compositions that blur distinctions between lyric and prose poetry, between science and eros.

  Forrest Gander

  Book, Prose Poetry, Sea

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• You are born with a character; it is given, a gift, as the old stories say, from the guardians upon your birth...Each person enters the world called.

  James Hillman

  Character, Stories, World

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• Remember Killer Moth, the most ingenuous rogue ever to defy the dynamic duo, Batman and Robin ?Perhaps you recall how the weird beam from the Moth Signal summoned the Gangland Guardian to the aid of desperate criminals ?And who can forget the eerie Moth Cave where new and startling implements of crime were produced by this evil genius !

  Bob Kane

  Eerie, Evil, Criminals

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• Mob rule and emasculation of the wise' and 'who will watch the guardians'?

  Plato

  Wise, Mob Rule, Watches

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• The result desired by the state is a wholly different one from that desired by parents, guardians, and pupils.

  Lester Frank Ward

  School, Parent, Different

  Lester Frank Ward (1915). “Dynamic Sociology ....”

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• The framers of the Constitution realized that . . . there needed to be some guardian of the sober second thought, and so they created the Senate to fulfill that high and vitally important duty.

  Elihu Root

  Political, Important, Constitution

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• Everyone has an angel, a guardian who watches over us. We can't know what form they'll take. One day old man, next day little girl. But don't let appearances fool you, they can be as fierce as any dragon. Yet they are not here to fight are battles, but to whisper from a hearth. Reminding that it's us... it's everyone of us who holds the power of the worlds we create.

  Zack Snyder

  Girl, Angel, Fighting

  "Sucker Punch". www.imdb.com. 2011.

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• I think that someone is watching out for me, God, my guardian angel, I'm not sure who that is, but they really work hard.

  Mattie Stepanek

  Hard Work, Angel, Thinking

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• The nutcracker sits under the holiday tree, a guardian of childhood stories. Feed him walnuts and he will crack open a tale.

  Vera Nazarian

  Christmas, Holiday, Childhood

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• Angels and demons were identical--interchangeable archetypes--all a matter of polarity. The guardian angel who conquered your enemy in battle was perceived by your enemy as a demon destroyer.

  Dan Brown

  Angel, Enemy, Battle

  Dan Brown (2010). “The Lost Symbol Illustrated edition”, p.44, Random House

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• We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Lbj, Gates

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.794, Best Books on

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