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• You watch the Supreme Court in action on these cases, and they are a conflicted court. However, when it comes to speech issues generally, the court has been protective.

  Jay Sekulow

  Issues, Watches, Speech

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• We're great, Jo and me. We're pals, and I guess sex has a lot to do with it. She's also brilliant at clearing a room. So protective, so devoted. I can't believe how much she loves me.

  Ronnie Wood

  Sex, Believe, Pals

  "The Do Ron Ron" By Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2001.

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• My parents were kind of over protective people. Me and my sister had to play in the backyard all the time. They bought us bikes for Christmas but wouldn't My younger brother will remember that he received a transistor radio for Christmas. I took it apart and it never worked again.

  Stephen Elop

  Christmas, Brother, Play

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• The twin guardian angels whose eyes and hands and wings had focused protective attention on the souls that lay there no longer faced each other. They stared blindly into a random middle distance. The scroll they held between them proclaiming eternal resurrection was broken in two.

  Claire Morgan

  Distance, Eye, Angel

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• They could fall in love with fresh, new people, or they could have the courage and humility to tear off some essential layer of themselves and reveal to each other a whole new level of otherness, a level far beyond what sort of music they liked. It seemed to her everyone had too much self-protective pride to truly strip down to their souls in front of their long-term partners. It was easier to pretend there was nothing more to know, to fall into an easygoing companionship. It was almost embarrassing to

  Liane Moriarty

  Falling In Love, Humility, Pride

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• My own fault. The equipment had safeties but your primary piece of protective equipment was your brain. There was a presumption that anyone entering this room was intelligent enough to keep away from hot things, sharp things, and things carrying large stores of momentum.

  Max Barry

  Intelligent, Safety, Brain

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• Both of us were orphans. No one would remember what we remembered. The elders that stood as protective shields, as references to our past, and as reflections of who we were and are and where we came from, were gone.

  Sylvia Browne

  Grief, Reflection, Past

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• A protective tariff is a typical conspiracy in restraint of trade.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Typical, Tariffs, Libertarian

  Thorstein Veblen (2016). “THE ENGINEERS AND THE PRICE SYSTEM: From the Author of The Theory of the Leisure Class, The Theory of Business Enterprise, Imperial Germany and the Industrial Revolution & The Higher Learning in America”, p.12, e-artnow

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• We shouldn't any of us be afraid of teaching protective measures to save lives.

  Kyan Douglas

  Teaching, Save A Life, Save Nature

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

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• When we don't fund Child Protective Services, there are consequences for all of us. Violence manifests itself. Mental health services in Texas are extremely poor. The answer is not to wait until they do something to get them help.

  David Atwood

  Children, Texas, Waiting

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• I am in favor of a national bank...in favor of the internal improvements system and a high protective tariff.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Favors, Tariffs

  "Obama's Challenge: What Would Lincoln Do?" by Cristina Corbin, www.foxnews.com. February 11, 2009.

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• Despite what our modern society would have you believe, the Witch within you is not dangerous, but protective. She is not frivolous, but exceedingly accurate and trustworthy.

  Laurie Cabot

  Believe, Witch, Trustworthy

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• I'd always walk my girlfriend home, i'm too protective!

  Niall Horan

  Girlfriend, Home, Walks

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• To provide optimal levels of protective micronutrients, a diet must be vegetable-based, not grain-based.

  Joel Fuhrman

  Vegetables, Levels, Grain

  "Heart Health: How You Can Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease" by Joel Fuhrman, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 17, 2010.

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• Under reverent, patient care, the wild seed gradually relinquishes its protective husk and entrusts its reproductive life to human hands.(thus) this sacred law and covenant with Mother Earth; Respectful care brings abundance. If you take, you must give back-Return the gift.

  Marilou Awiakta

  Mother, Hands, Law

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• How many wives have been forced by the death of well-intentioned but too protective husbands to face reality late in life, bewildered and frightened because they were strangers to it!

  Hortense Odlum

  Husband, Reality, Wife

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• This gives the agents of the gods a powerful area of support. All they need to do is to remind their followers constantly of their mortality and to convince them that the afterlife itself is under the personal management of the particular gods they are promoting. The self-protective urges of their worshippers will do the rest.

  Desmond Morris

  Powerful, Self, Afterlife

  Desmond Morris (1977). “Manwatching: A Field Guide to Human Behavior”

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• She wishes her grandmother had not been so protective, and that she understood better what passes between a man and woman. As it is, she simply enjoys the feelings and wonders if they are what lightning is made of, for everything comes back to the weather. Tears like rain. Smiles like the sun. Hair as dry as sand and fear like the dark ocean.

  Sara Sheridan

  Rain, Ocean, Grandmother

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• By rejecting faith in Jesus Christ, America has also rejected God's protective hand, which until recently, sheltered this nation from harm. We have invited the devil which all his diabolical and destructive power in our daily lives.

  Bill Bright

  Jesus, America, Hands

  Bill Bright, John N. Damoose (1998). “Red Sky in the Morning”

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• I am very protective. I just want to make sure that she can have a healthy, safe, normal life...in the back of my mind, she's my priority. And life is completely different now. I feel really, really just lucky that I can still do what I love, and now have a way bigger meaning. And that's to be her mother.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Mother, Priorities, Healthy

  "Beyonce Thinks Blue Ivy 'needs Company'" By Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. May 6, 2013.

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• He was being about as protective as a can-opener.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Protectiveness

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Gaudy Night”, p.396, Open Road Media

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• He’s gone, Harry told himself. He’s gone. He had to keep thinking it as he washed and dressed, as though repetition would dull the shock of it. He’s gone and he’s not coming back. And that was the simple truth of it, Harry knew, because their protective enchantments meant that it would be impossible, once they vacated this spot, for Ron to find them again.

  J. K. Rowling

  Simple, Thinking, Enchantment

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• Ethan was loyal and funny and protective. When we were little, he was the brother most likely to make me cry—and mostly likely to wipe away my tears.

  Rachel Vincent

  Brother, Tears, Wipe

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• Let them go, I tell myself. Say good-bye and forget them. I do my best, thinking of them one by one, releasing them like birds from the protective cages inside me, locking the doors against their return.

  Suzanne Collins

  Thinking, Doors, Bye

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire”, p.149, Scholastic

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• Every people, in order to remain healthy and strong, has to have a grasp of its foundation story. Culture is a chrysalis - it is protective, it takes care of you. That's what cultures are for. You cannot rob a people of language, culture, mother, father, the value of their labor - all of that - without doing vast damage to those people.

  Randall Robinson

  Mother, Strong, Father

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

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