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• New molecular methods that add or modify genes can protect plants from diseases and pests and improve crops in ways that are both more environmentally benign and beyond the capability of older methods.

  Nina Fedoroff

  Add, Pests, Disease

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• What's great about the geek spirit is that life never seems to stop us, and they never seem to kill our enthusiasm, our optimism and our hunger to experience the world. We keep our sense of humor, we protect our dignity, we talk to our friends about the experience and then we start again fresh the very next day.

  Paul Feig

  Next Day, Optimism, World

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A gun can be dangerous. But a gun can protect you, you can hunt for food with it - you know, the tool itself is a tool. The intention of the party using the tool is a part of the process, right? You know: the knife cuts the steak, stabs the person, saves somebody from danger, cuts somebody out of a car.

  Peter Guber

  Party, Cutting, Gun

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• My family comes first, and you have to be in charge to be able to protect that. You have to be the one who says no or you don't have a life, which is what I found out the first time.

  Sarah Michelle Gellar

  Able, Firsts, My Family

  "'Ringer's' Sarah Michelle Gellar Laughs About Playing Twins" by Lindsay Powers, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 13, 2011.

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• I don't have children, but we all want to protect whatever we love in life.

  Shirley Henderson

  Children, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Democracy is the common pursuit of mankind, and all countries must earnestly protect the democratic rights of the people.

  Hu Jintao

  Country, Rights, People

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• North Carolina is home to some of the largest financial institutions in the country, and a vibrant network of community banks. We're a banking state, and we're proud of that distinction. But we also understand that responsible financial regulation protects consumers and businesses.

  Kay Hagan

  Country, Home, Community

  "Don’t Filibuster Cordray" by Kay R. Hagan, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 8, 2011.

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• I am extremely proud of my service with the government and my efforts to help safeguard public health and protect our country against the scourge of offensive biological warfare.

  Steven Hatfill

  Country, Government, Effort

  "Scientist under scrutiny denies anthrax link". www.cnn.com. August 11, 2002.

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• The courts are using the First Amendment to attack religion, when they should be using it to protect religion.

  Ernest Istook

  Firsts, First Amendment, Should

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• When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite attractive. But if I got frightened and tried to protect that, that canvas would die.

  Michael Ironside

  Art, College, Would Be

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• I didn't want the public in my personal life at all - I thought that people might perceive me as too normal, and I'd lose that larger-than-life rock star persona. You've got to protect that!

  Vanilla Ice

  Stars, Rocks, People

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• My main concern is to protect people from detriment.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  People, Concern

  "'Athens Is Not Broke'". Interview with Michael Sauga and Christoph Schult, www.spiegel.de. May 23, 2011.

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• John Henry Lloyd is the man I gave the credit to for polishing my skills. He taught me how to play third base and how to protect myself. John taught me more baseball than anyone else.

  Judy Johnson

  Baseball, Men, Play

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• Well, the U.N. Security Council resolution 1973 is very clear. It says all necessary measures to be taken to protect civilians and civilian areas. I mean, that to me is very clear.

  Mike Jackson

  Taken, Mean, Resolution

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• The restriction of religion to private life therefore does not necessarily threaten the vital interests of the majority religion, if there is one, and it protects minority religions from tyranny of the majority.

  Phillip E. Johnson

  Majority, Doe, Minorities

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• You have plaintiffs attorneys, you have defense attorneys. So there is no unified bar that will protect a particular judge who has made a courageous decision that's unpopular.

  Anthony Kennedy

  Judging, Decision, Defense

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• The eco-movement is growing as people all over catch on to the need to protect our precious planet, which makes the future look really bright - and makes me really happy.

  Josie Maran

  People, Needs, Looks

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• I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty, which will protect the beauty of our natural environment, which will preserve the great old American houses and squares and parks of our national past and which will build handsome and balanced cities for our future.

  John F. Kennedy

  Nature, Past, Squares

  Speech at Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, on October 26, 1963. "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy", p. 817, 1963.

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• In England the judges should have independence to protect the people against the crown. Here the judges should not be independent of the people, but be appointed for not more than seven years. The people would always re-elect the good judges.

  Andrew Jackson

  Independent, Should Have, Years

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Mankind's journey into space, like every great voyage of discovery, will become part of our unending journey of liberation. In the limitless reaches of space, we will find liberation from tyranny, from scarcity, from ignorance and from war. We will find the means to protect this Earth and to nurture every human life, and to explore the universe. . . .This is our mission, this is our destiny.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Mean, Ignorance

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1991). “Ronald Reagan”

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• I'm sure people in the business have said: She's too old for that part. I don't hear about it because your agent protects you from those negative things.

  Felicity Kendal

  People, Agents, Negative

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• England and Greece are friends. English blood was shed on Greek soil in the war against fascism, and Greeks gave their lives to protect English pilots.

  Melina Mercouri

  War, Blood, Greek

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• No matter what happens, I'm going to protect my kid.

  Mindy McCready

  Kids, Matter, Happens

  "Country Singer Mindy McCready Reportedly Can't Return to Florida Court Due to Pregnancy", www.foxnews.com. December 1, 2011.

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• I was a crown attorney in my home town in Nova Scotia, and I learned that victims of crime needed better laws to better protect them. I saw politics as a means to improve this protection for them.

  Peter MacKay

  Home, Mean, Law

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• If you look at the history of broadcasting, what you find is the National Association of Broadcasters is a trade association whose mission is to protect the interests of the commercial broadcasters.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Looks, Association, Missions

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