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• In prehistoric times, Homo sapiens was deeply endangered. Early humans were less fleet of foot, with fewer natural weapons and less well-honed senses than all the predators that threatened them. Moreover, they were hampered in their movements by the need to protect their uniquely immature young - juicy meals for any hungry beast.

  Robert Winston

  Feet, Immature, Meals

  "Philip Roth was wrong" by Robert Winston, www.theguardian.com. December 16, 2005.

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• However, the resources at our people's disposal are very few and we require assistance from the neighboring Arab countries, and for weapons in order to fight the enemy.

  Ahmed Yassin

  Country, Fighting, Order

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• Cancer is messy and scary. You throw everything at it, but don't forget to throw love at it. It turns out that might be the best weapon of all.

  Regina Brett

  Cancer, Scary, Might

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• There's detailed information on how to assemble a nuclear weapon from parts. There's books about how to build a nuclear bomb.

  Irwin Redlener

  Book, Nuclear, Bombs

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• Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Book, Ignorance, Ideas

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1965). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964”, p.285, Best Books on

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• No one expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise, fear and surprise; two chief weapons, fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency! Er, among our chief weapons are: fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, and near fanatical devotion to the Pope! Um, I'll come in again.

  Graham Chapman

  Two, Surprise, Pope

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• A sneer is the weapon of the weak.

  James Russell Lowell

  Criticism, Weak, Critics

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.56

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• How noble. Oh we would fell many...-you with magic and blade, whilst my weapons would be tooth and claw-but it would be futile in the end. They are too numerous.... We cannot defeat them, only be defeated. - Saphira

  Christopher Paolini

  Magic, Teeth, Would Be

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• Yet if he upbraided her in his hurry, it was to repent bitterly his temper the next, and to feel its effects more than she, temper being a weapon that we hold by the blade.

  James M. Barrie

  Next, Blades, Temper

  James M. Barrie (2013). “The Little Minister (Illustrated Edition)”, p.94, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The Swiss have an interesting army. Five hundred years without a war. Pretty impressive. Also pretty lucky for them. Ever seen that little Swiss Army knife they have to fight with? Not much of a weapon there. Corkscrews. Bottle openers. ‘Come on, buddy, let’s go. You get past me, the guy in the back of me, he’s got a spoon. Back off, I’ve got the toe clippers right here.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Funny, War, Fighting

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• I will fight with all the weapons within my reach rather than let myself be nailed to a cross or whatever.

  Che Guevara

  Fighting, Crosses

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• I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.

  David Gerrold

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

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• Don't touch any of my weapons without my permission." "Well, there goes my plan for selling them all on eBay," Clary muttered. "Selling them on what?" Clary smiled blandly at him. "A mythical place of great magical power.

  Cassandra Clare

  Ebay, Selling, Jace

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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• That was one of the most fundamental and sacred duties good friends and families performed for one another! They tended the flame of memory, so no one’s death meant an immediate vanishment from the world; in some sense the deceased would live on after their passing, at least as long as those who loved them lived. Such memories were an essential weapon against the chaos of life and death, a way to ensure some continuity from generation to generation, an order of endorsement and meaning.

  Dean Koontz

  Memories, Good Friend, Flames

  Dean Koontz (2004). “The Bad Place”, p.360, Penguin

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• Even the best weapon is an unhappy tool, hateful to living things. So the follower of the Way stays away from it. Weapons are unhappy tools, not chosen by thoughtful people, to be used only when there is no choice, and with a calm, still mind, without enjoyment. To enjoy using weapons is to enjoy killing people, and to enjoy killing people is to lose your share in the common good. It is right that the murder of many people be mourned and lamented. It is right that a victor in war be received with funeral ceremonies.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  War, Thoughtful, People

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Jerome P. Seaton (2009). “Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way”, p.48, Shambhala Publications

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• Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties. He must have the courage to write the truth when truth is everywhere opposed; the keenness to recognize it, although it is everywhere concealed; the skill to manipulate it as a weapon; the judgment to select those in whose hands it will be effective; and the running to spread the truth among such persons.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Running, Lying, Writing

  Bertolt Brecht (1966). “Galileo”, p.133, Grove Press

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• You would love the way he sees you. He uses you as a weapon against himself and not merely because you did

  Elliot Perlman

  Use, Way

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• You too have weapons.

  Franz Kafka

  Franz Kafka (1979). “The Basic Kafka”, p.268, Simon and Schuster

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• Here's the truth: the Soviet Union had thousands of nuclear weapons, and Iran doesn't have a single one. But when the world was on the brink of nuclear holocaust, Kennedy talked to Khrushchev and he got those missiles out of Cuba. Why shouldn't we have the same courage and the confidence to talk to our enemies? That's what strong countries do, that's what strong presidents do, that's what I'll do when I'm president of the United States of America.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Strong, Iran

  "Obama on Iran: What's McCain afraid of?". www.politico.com. May 19, 2008.

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• He was a writer and words were his weapons.

  Christopher Moore

  Christopher Moore (2009). “Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story”, p.184, Simon and Schuster

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• What is love? There is nothing in the world, neither man nor Devil nor any thing, that I hold as suspect as love, for it penetrates the soul more than any other thing. Nothing exists that so fills and binds the heart as love does. Therefore, unless you have those weapons that subdue it, the soul plunges through love into an immense abyss.

  Umberto Eco

  Love, Heart, Men

  Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.247, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Remember though, your best weapon is between your ears and under your scalp -provided it's loaded.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Ears, Remember, Loaded

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• Knowledge is a better weapon than a sword.

  Patricia Briggs

  Patricia Briggs (2004). “Raven's Shadow”, p.160, Penguin

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• Fear's greatest weapon is its ability to blind one to anything. In its presence, we forget there are others to consider, things to save besides ourselves.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Forget, Blind, Ability

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• Will a day come when the race will detect the funniness of these juvenilities and laugh at them—and by laughing at them destroy them? For your race, in its poverty, has unquestionably one really effective weapon—laughter. Power, Money, Persuasion, Supplication, Persecution--these can lift at a colossal humbug,—push it a little— crowd it a little—weaken it a little, century by century: but only Laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of Laughter nothing can stand. - "The Chronicle of Young Satan," Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts

  Mark Twain

  Laughter, Blow, Race

  The Mysterious Stranger ch. 10 (1916)

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