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A memorandum is not written to inform the reader, but to protect the writer.
Management
Dean Acheson

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The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.
Colleges and Universities
Allan Bloom

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Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?
Punishment
Jerry Brown

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.
Adversity
Mario Burata

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Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
Suspicion
Robert Burns

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The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
Civilization
Thomas Carlyle

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Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
Books - Reading
Lord Chesterfield

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The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise.
Masses
Marcus T. Cicero

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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
Parents and Parenting
Quentin Crisp

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Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
Friends and Friendship
Czech Proverb

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Just as courage imperils life; fear protects it.
Fear
Leonardo Da Vinci

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Protection is not a principle but an expedient.
Trade
Benjamin Disraeli

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Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.
Government
John Foster Dulles

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The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.
Self-reliance
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
Fathers
Sigmund Freud

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If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become President.
President
Vaclav Havel

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A man without a vote is man without protection.
Government
Lyndon B. Johnson

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No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.
Arts and Artists
Samuel Johnson

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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
Understanding
Lao-Tzu

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To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
Silence
Abraham Lincoln

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Equal laws protecting equal rights the best guarantee of loyalty & love of country.
Uncategorised
James Madison

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The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.
Automobiles
Marshall Mcluhan

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The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
Ideas
Sir Peter Medawar

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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
Law and Lawyers
Thomas Moore

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Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
Age and Aging
Jeanne Moreau

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun