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• But always, to her, red and green cabbages were to be jade and burgundy, chrysoprase and prophyry. Life has no weapons against a woman like that.

  Edna Ferber

  Garden, Green, Cabbage

  Edna Ferber (2013). “So Big”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• We can surely no longer pretend that our children are growing up into a peaceful, secure, and civilized world. We've come to the point where it's irresponsible to try to protect them from the irrational world they will have to live in when they grow up. The children themselves haven't yet isolated themselves by selfishness and indifference; they do not fall easily into the error of despair; they are considerably braver than most grownups. Our responsibility to them is not to pretend that if we don't look, evil will go away, but to give them weapons against it.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Growing Up, Children, Fall

  FaceBook post by Madeleine L'Engle from Nov 03, 2016

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• Terrorism and deception are weapons not of the strong, but of the weak.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Strong, Deception

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.134, Vintage

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• In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner fearsome, makes him feared.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Country, Taken, Heart

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• In a clutch or a corner, I tend to make a weapon out of what is near at hand. That can be anything from a crowbar to a cat, though if I had a choice, I would prefer an angry cat, which I have found to be more effective than a crowbar. Although weaponless, I left the house by the back door, with two chocolate-pumpkin cookies. It's a tough world out there, and a man has to armor himself against it however he can. ~Odd Thomas

  Dean Koontz

  Cat, Men, Doors

  Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.902, Bantam

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• Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy. (about Guernica).

  Pablo Picasso

  Enemy, Guernica, Painting

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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• A truth should exist, it should not be used like this. If I love you is that a fact or a weapon?

  Margaret Atwood

  Truth, Love You, Facts

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• What concerns me is that man, unable to articulate, to express himself adequately, reverts to action. Since the vocabulary of action is limited, as it were, to his body, he is bound to act violently, extending his vocabulary with a weapon where there should have been an adjective.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Men, Vocabulary, Should Have

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• Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our circumstances allow. For the truth is the greatest weapon we have.

  H. G. Wells

  Race, Civilization, Truth Is

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• An atom-blaster is a good weapon, but it can point both ways.

  Isaac Asimov

  Atoms, Way

  Isaac Asimov (1951). “Foundation”

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• I came in contact with every known Indian anarchist in London. Their bravery impressed me, but I felt that their zeal was misguided. I felt that violence was no remedy for India's ills, and that her civilisation required the use of a different and higher weapon for self-protection. - Hind Swaraj

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, Bravery, India

  Mahatma Gandhi (2010). “Hind Swaraj”, p.11, Rajpal & Sons

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• Worry is the secret weapon perpetrated upon us by the dark forces of the world that lurk in the shape of fear, uncertainty, confusion, and loss. We, on the other hand, have our own secret weapon against these incorporeal fiends. It is laughter.

  Vera Nazarian

  Laughter, Loss, Dark

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• When one of a culture's guiding credos is that "all men are created equal," any person who, say, becomes an expert on, say, nuclear weapons or, say, ecology, i.e., anyone who distinguishes himself through mental excellence, is a nuisance.

  Sarah Vowell

  Men, Excellence, Experts

  Sarah Vowell (2002). “The Partly Cloudy Patriot”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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• When I heard your organization was recording testimonies, I knew I had to come. She died in my arms, saying 'I don't want to die.' That is what death is like. It doesn't matter what uniforms the soldiers are wearing. It doesn't matter how good the weapons are. I thought if everyone could see what I saw, we would never have war anymore.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  War, Organization, Soldier

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• His response was to fight it with the only weapons at hand—passive resistance and open displays of contempt.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Fighting, Hands, Passive Resistance

  Kurt Vonnegut (2007). “The Sirens of Titan”, p.203, Dial Press

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• I stared at her in amazement. "How do you even live with yourself?"..."You're willing to sell children to a foreign government so they can be used as weapons, possibly against other Americans. I don't get it. Were you hiding behind a door on morals and ethics day?...You couldn't mother someone if they shot five gallons of estrogen into your veins.

  James Patterson

  Mother, Children, Government

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• She pulled down the blanket and aimed baby Sophie's bottom at him like she might unleash a fusillade of weapons-grade poopage such as the guileless Beta Male had never seen.

  Christopher Moore

  Baby, Males, Sophie

  Christopher Moore (2009). “A Dirty Job: A Novel”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• Surprise is the warrior's greatest weapon

  Erin Hunter

  Warrior, Surprise

  Erin Hunter (2011). “Warriors 3-Book Collection with Bonus Material: Warriors #1: Into the Wild; Warriors #2: Fire and Ice; Warriors #3: Forest of Secrets”, p.83, Harper Collins

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• Give yourself unto reading. The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will not use the thoughts of other men’s brains, proves that he has no brains of his own. You need to read. . . . We are quite persuaded that the very best way for you to be spending your leisure time, is to be either reading or praying. You may get much instruction from books which afterwards you may use as a true weapon in your Lord and Master’s service. Paul cries, “Bring the books” — join in the cry.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Book, Reading, Men

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• I don't believe you! Flowers are weak creatures. They are naive. They reassure themselves as best they can. They believe that their thorns are terrible weapons.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Believe, Flower, Thorns

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• Our liberty will not be secured at the sword's point... We must secure it by making ourselves worthy of it. And when the people reaches that height, God will provide a weapon, the idols will be shattered, tyranny will crumble like a house of cards, and liberty will shine out like the first dawn.

  Jose Rizal

  House Of Cards, Idols, People

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• What a frightful weapon is human thought! It is our defense and our safeguard, the most precious gift that God has made us. It is ours and it obeys us; we may launch it forth into space, but, once outside of our feeble brains, it is gone; we can no longer control it.

  Alfred de Musset

  Space, Brain, Gone

  Alfred de Musset (1923). “Confession of a child of the century”

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• I knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I would be with the people. I know this, I see it printed in the night sky that I, eclectic dissembler of doctrine and psychoanalyst of dogma, howling like one possessed, will assault the barricades or the trenches , will take my bloodstained weapon, and consumed with fury, slaughter any enemy who falls into my hands.

  Che Guevara

  Fall, Night, Hands

  Che Guevara, Ernesto Guevara (2009). “Che: The Diaries of Ernesto Che Guevara”, p.17, Ocean Press

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• I saw what I had been fighting for: It was for me, a scared child, who had run away a long time ago to what I had imagined was a safer place. And hiding in this place, behind my invisible barriers, I knew what lay on the other side: Her side attacks. Her secret weapons. Her uncanny ability to find my weakest spots. But in the brief instant that I had peered over the barriers I could finally see what was finally there: an old woman, a wok for her armor, a knitting needle for her sword, getting a little crabby as she waited patiently for her daughter to invite her in.

  Amy Tan

  Running, Daughter, Children

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.183, Penguin

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• I hardly think a girl is much of a threat. I presume you searched her for weapons? But if she attempts to suffocate me with her straw mattress, I promise to call out for help.

  Mary Hoffman

  Girl, Thinking, Promise

  Mary Hoffman (2010). “Stravaganza: City of Masks”, p.217, Bloomsbury Publishing

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