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• Most of the kids that I meet in the street are serious hardened criminals that I meet in the street, never had a mother and a father to love them, to protect them, to teach them right from wrong and lead them out of crime and gangs and stuff like that.

  Steven Seagal

  Mother, Father, Kids

  "'Lawman' Star Steven Seagal on 'Hannity'". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. December 07, 2009.

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• Cravats grow higher, as if they mean to protect the throat. The highest cravats in public life will be worn by Citizen Antoine Saint-Just, of the National Convention and the Committee of Public Safety. In the dark and harrowing days of '94, an obscene feminine inversion will appear: a thin crimson ribbon, worn round a bare white neck.

  Hilary Mantel

  Mean, Dark, White

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• I want to protect and preserve social security and Medicare.

  Dean Heller

  Want, Social, Medicare

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• While the Left seems obsessed with increasing taxes and spending even more money, conservatives have focused more heavily on the need for spending restraint and entitlement reform - primarily to preserve and protect the future of the Medicare program. Overlooked in all of this is the future of Medicaid.

  Fred Upton

  Reform, Needs, Entitlement

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• If were going to change the laws, lets change them in ways which makes it easier to catch criminals, and yet at the same time protect the Second Amendment rights of our law-abiding citizens.

  John Dingell

  Rights, Law, Second Amendment

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• Our Founding Fathers drafted the Bill of Rights to ensure that We the People could determine how best to protect our communities.

  Mike Quigley

  Father, Rights, People

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• There is a barbarism in the American soul, and we must protect some of it by law. To root it out is to endanger our lives on the one hand, and our liberty on the other.

  Charlie Pierce

  Hands, Law, Roots

  "The Violence We Live With" by Charles P. Pierce, www.esquire.com. April 18, 2013.

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• It is easier to kill than to heal. It is easier to destroy than to preserve. It is easier to tear down than to build. Those who feed on destructive emotions and ambitions and deny the responsibilities that are the price of wielding power can bring down everything you care for and would protect. Be on guard, always.

  Anne Bishop

  Ambition, Responsibility, Tears

  Anne Bishop (2007). “Heir to the Shadows: The Black Jewels Trilogy 2”, p.372, Penguin

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• The American people want to know that when they borrow a book from the library or buy a book, the government won't be looking over their shoulder. Everybody wants to fight terrorism, but we have to do it in away that protects American freedom.

  Bernie Sanders

  Book, Fighting, Government

  "House defies Bush, votes to repeal part of Patriot Act / Checks on library, bookstore records would be banned" by Edward Epstein, www.sfgate.com. June 16, 2005.

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• I believe strongly that we can protect our people without undermining our constitutional rights and I worry very, very much about the huge attacks on privacy that we have seen in recent years - both from the government and the private sector. I worry that we are moving toward an Orwellian society, and this is something I will oppose as vigorously as I can.

  Bernie Sanders

  Believe, Moving, Rights

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. May 19, 2015.

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• Workers, black and white, need some kind of international affirmative action to protect them from unfair competition with unorganized or slave labor abroad and unfair competition with robots at home.

  Jesse Jackson

  Home, Black And White, Slave Labor

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• I'm totally against women in combat, because we live in a culture and a society that imposes on every man the concept of women and children first...If you had a man and a woman trying to go through some dangerous woods, the man's instinct would be to protect the woman. Therefore you weaken the man.

  Grace Hopper

  Sex, Children, Men

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• [We need to] protect copyright at all costs. Don't do cheap deals with Google and these other cyber-monsters. Recognize that the creative artist has to be maintained.

  Harold Evans

  Artist, Creative, Google

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• I'll always protect what I'm working on. Which is why more and more of it is stuff only I can ruin.

  Joss Whedon

  Stuff, Ruins, I Can

  "Joss Whedon on writing horror and superheroes for fanboys and casual viewers alike". Interview with Sean O'Neal, film.avclub.com. April 18, 2012.

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• There's always got to be room for what you might call benign corruption. Nobody blames a man who steals food to feed his starving children, but on the other hand, somebody who picks up a badge and takes an oath to serve and protect; we do expect a certain level of essential honesty.

  Denzel Washington

  Children, Honesty, Men

  Source: movieweb.com

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• My church [Catholisism] is hurting from arrogance and from its indifference to the suffering of children that were abused and the inclination of the leadership to protect the institution, rather than the children.

  Mark Shields

  Hurt, Children, Arrogance

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• An entrepreneur is somebody who is taking bold risks, is often doing things that have never been done before, trying to do things better. And an adventurer is challenging themselves, often doing things that have never been done before, seeing what they're capable of. In both cases, you've got to protect against the downside.

  Richard Branson

  Entrepreneur, Risk, Challenges

  "Richard Branson on Being Richard Branson". Interview with Rod Kurtz, www.entrepreneur.com. December 17, 2012.

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• As an entrepreneur, you've got to protect against the company going bust. And as an adventurer, you've got to protect against losing your life. It's even more important as an adventurer to get it right.

  Richard Branson

  Entrepreneur, Important, Losing

  "Richard Branson on Being Richard Branson". Interview with Rod Kurtz, www.entrepreneur.com. December 17, 2012.

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• I always tell other people to protect against the downside, and not risk roughing on new ventures, but I never stuck to that rule myself.

  Richard Branson

  New Ventures, People, Risk

  "Richard Branson on Being Richard Branson". Interview with Rod Kurtz, www.entrepreneur.com. December 17, 2012.

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• To not do what you can to protect someone, that's cowardly.

  Jodi Lynn Anderson

  Cowardly

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• It's rooted in my blood to consume you and be consumed by you. To protect you. To please you, in every way. To make you shiver when I touch you. To cause your heart to beat faster.

  Shelly Crane

  Heart, Blood, Way

  Shelly Crane (2011). “Significance: A Significance Novel”, p.298, Kiss Me Publications, LLC

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• I have a few unusual fans, as you can imagine, so I try to protect the privacy of my home life.

  Karin Slaughter

  Home, Trying, Fans

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• I want to be indifferent to vengeance. It's degrading. Not having a spirit of vengeance protects me, internally.

  Segolene Royal

  Want, Spirit, Vengeance

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• The very concept of law that protects us from tyranny has been lost. No longer the people's shield, law has become a weapon in the hands of government.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  Government, Hands, Law

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• I wrote home to say how lovely everything was, and I used flourishing words and phrases, as if I were living life in a greeting card - the kind that has a satin ribbon on it, and quilted hearts and roses, and is expected to be so precious to the person receiving it that the manufacturer has placed a leaf of plastic on the front to protect it.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Live Life, Home, Heart

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