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Quotes on Protection

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Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity.
Marshall McluhanRead
Diversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sense if you know what you are doing.
Warren BuffettRead
Slavery, protection, and monopoly find defenders, not only in those who profit by them, but in those who suffer by them.
Frederic BastiatRead
The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.
Ralph Waldo EmersonRead
One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.
Alain De BottonRead
Being incomprehensible offers unparalleled protection against having nothing to say...but writing with simplicity requires courage, for there is a danger that one will be overlooked, dismissed as simpleminded by those with a tenacious belief that the impassable prose is a hallmark of intelligence.
Alain De BottonRead
A foundation in Christ was and is always to be a protection in days "when the devil shall send forth his mighty winds, yea, his shafts in the whirlwind, yea, when all his hail and his mighty storm shall beat upon you." In such days as we are now in--and will more or less always be in--the storms of life "shall have no power over you... because of the rock upon which ye are built, which is a sure foundation, a foundation whereon if men build they cannot fall." (Helaman 5:12)
Jeffrey R. HollandRead
A man without a vote is man without protection.
Lyndon B. JohnsonRead
The Three Laws of Robotics: 1: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm; 2: A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law; 3: A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law; The Zeroth Law: A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.
Isaac AsimovRead
For the hundreds of thousands of Californians in gay and lesbian households who are managing their day-to-day lives, this decision affirms the full legal protections and safeguards I believe everyone deserves.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerRead
If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard?
Jane AustenRead
Let me have my tax money go for my protection and not for my prosecution. Let my tax money go for the protection of me. Protect my home, protect my streets, protect my car, protect my life, protect my property...worry about becoming a human being and not about how you can prevent others from enjoying their lives because of your own inability to adjust to life.
Harvey MilkRead
Estranged from the tribe that gives no protection, What happens to the soul that hates its reflection?
Sherman AlexieRead
I don't want anyone to look to me, not for protection, not for happiness, not for love, not for anything.
P. D. JamesRead
Materialism is in fact no protection. Those who seek it in that hope (they are not a negligible class) will be disappointed. The thing you fear is impossible. Well and good. Can you therefore cease to fear it? Not here and now. And what then? If you must see ghosts, it is better not to disbelieve in them.
C. S. LewisRead
They say every man needs protection_x000D_ They say every man must fall_x000D_ So, I swear I see my reflection_x000D_ Somewhere inside these walls... I shall be released.
Bob DylanRead
In a dog's life, some plaster would fall, some cushions would open, some rugs would shred. Like any relationship, this one had its costs. They were costs we came to accept and balance against the joy and amusement and protection and companionship he gave us.
John GroganRead
The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
Truman CapoteRead
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 GandhiRead
Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.
Leonardo Da VinciRead
Millions of our citizens do not now have a full measure of opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health. Millions do not now have protection or security against the economic effects of sickness. The time has arrived for action to help them attain that opportunity and that protection.
Harry S. TrumanRead

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