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How can you protect yourself by carrying a sword if you don't know how to use it?' Not me, sir. Other people. They see the sword and don't attack me,' said Maladict patiently. Yes, but if they did, lad, you wouldn't be any good with it,' said the sergeant. No, sir. I'd probably settle for just ripping their heads off, sir. That's what I mean by protection, sir. Theirs, not mine. And I'd get hell from the League if I did that, sir.
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self-defense
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Terry Pratchett |
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5a205ca
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If there's any guy crazy enough to attack me, I'm going to show him the end of the world -- close up. I'm going to let him see the kingdom come with his own eyes. I'm going to send him straight to the southern hemisphere and let the ashes of death rain all over him and the kangaroos and the wallabies.
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girl-power
confidence
death
strength
kingdom-come
wallabies
kangaroos
ashes
end-of-the-world
badass
attack
threat
self-defense
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Haruki Murakami |
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66c4ba1
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Erin: We get to beat the shit outta guys in those big puffy suits!!! I've always wanted to really kick the crap outta some guy's nuts. Now I can do it guilt-free! Me: You're a sick girl. Erin: Guilty as charged. :)
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girl-power
texting
self-defense
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Tammara Webber |
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1f37dbe
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"We were encouraged to propose safetyprevention suggestions, and write them all down-- locking doors, walking or exercising with a friend, wearing shoes that don't hinder running. Erin's suggestion of "Avoid assholes" was popular."
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girl-power
humorous
self-defense
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Tammara Webber |
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c40f52f
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"Sarra looked at her daughter and said reproachfully, "Speaking of war, I never raised you to be always fighting and killing. That's not woman's work." "It's needful, Ma. You taught me a woman has to know how to defend herself." "I never!" gasped Sarra, indignant. "You taught me when you were murdered in your own house," Daine said quietly."
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death
fighting
self-defense
sad
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Tamora Pierce |
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4e66ce8
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You can't go anywhere if you just resign yourself to being attacked. A state of chronic powerlessness eats away at a person.
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aomame
haruki-murakami
powerlessness
self-defense
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Haruki Murakami |
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b0248aa
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Remaining for a moment with the question of legality and illegality: United Nations Security Council Resolution 1368, unanimously passed, explicitly recognized the right of the United States to self-defense and further called upon all member states 'to bring to justice the perpetrators, organizers and sponsors of the terrorist attacks. It added that 'those responsible for aiding, supporting or harboring the perpetrators, organizers and sponsors of those acts will be held accountable.' In a speech the following month, the United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan publicly acknowledged the right of self-defense as a legitimate basis for military action. The SEAL unit dispatched by President Obama to Abbottabad was large enough to allow for the contingency of bin-Laden's capture and detention. The naive statement that he was 'unarmed' when shot is only loosely compatible with the fact that he was housed in a military garrison town, had a loaded automatic weapon in the room with him, could well have been wearing a suicide vest, had stated repeatedly that he would never be taken alive, was the commander of one of the most violent organizations in history, and had declared himself at war with the United States. It perhaps says something that not even the most casuistic apologist for al-Qaeda has ever even attempted to justify any of its 'operations' in terms that could be covered by any known law, with the possible exception of some sanguinary verses of the Koran.
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war
international-law
kofi-annan
right-to-self-defense
united-nations-security-council
united-states-navy-seals
al-qaeda
death-of-osama-bin-laden
quran
barack-obama
osama-bin-laden
september-11-attacks
pakistan
united-nations
united-states
law
justice
islamism
assassination
self-defense
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Christopher Hitchens |
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8113b75
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He would have died soon, but more painfully. Anyway, it was Urban Bloodshed Limitation. First rule: limit bloodshed by making sure that none of your own gets spilled.
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fighting
survival
self-defense
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Margaret Atwood |
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e0b74bc
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I asked Mama was it a sin to do what I done, and she said no, it was the same as David slaying Goliath, it was only to save Ulyssa and the others, not because of meanness that I did it. I would do it again, too. I am not sorry, but this has hurt my heart and spirit more than all the other trials, for being forsaken is worse than being killed.
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self-defense
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Nancy E. Turner |
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eac2e73
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Arms in the hands of the Negro aroused fear both North and South. Not that the Negroes could not and would not fight, for these same blacks, largely under their own officers, had beaten back Louisiana whites at Port Hudson and Milliken's Bend. But, it was the silent verdict of all America that Negroes must not be allowed to fight for themselves. They were, therefore, dissuaded from every attempt at self-protection or aggression by their friends as well as their enemies.
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reconstruction
self-defense
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W E B Du Bois |
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3180f53
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We are not ready to fight because we love fighting. We are ready to fight because we are worth fighting for.
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black-anarchism
black-liberation
william-c-anderson
zoe-samudzi
self-defense
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Zoé Samudzi |
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c7ade7b
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"Fionna had dredged the weapon from her reticule. She clung to the grip, but the barrel was wavering. He willed his thoughts into hers. . But it was not to be. Colson spied Fionna holding the pistol. He wrenched it from her grasp and turned, searching for Aidan. The pistol was in his hands, pointed at Aidan's chest. Colson threw back his head. "You can't have her, you stupid fool! She's mine!" Colson crowed. Fionna, it appeared, had been totally dismissed. A stupid mistake on Colson's part. Aidan was rather stunned... and wholly proud. It all happened in an instant. Fionna seized her parasol with all the frenzy of a woman protecting her own. She whacked Colson full on in the belly the way she'd once tried to do with Aidan. This time she succeeded. This time with a power borne of fury and fire. Colson grunted with pain. His eyes went wide with shock. He clutched his belly and began to slump... Just as Fionna's knee came up. His jaw cracked like the sound of a pistol. There was no sweeter sound on earth. No sweeter feeling than Fionna clinging to him with all her might. "Aidan! Aidan, I knew you would come. I knew it!" Aidan's laugh was breathless with love and laughter. "Remind me, sweet, never to cross you when you're holding a parasol."
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fionna-hawkes
self-defense
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Samantha James |
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828488b
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"I fear you'd inflict little damage, my love." "Really?" "Really." "Then I must remind you of the night we met, Aidan. The night you enlightened me as to the... vulnerable areas of a man's anatomy. My memory is quite vivid," she said sweetly. "The face, you said. The eyes, if one is able. The chest or belly or"- she emulated perfectly the swirl of his finger as he had done that night- "parts thereunder. A knee, I believe you said, was particularly effective at bringing a man down. Yes, that was it- precisely." His grin was wiped clean. It was Fionna's turn to smile smugly."
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self-defense
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Samantha James |
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5bfdff8
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90% of us came from single-parent homes who were in the gang. There was just a small 10% who had a mother and a father in the home. For a lot of us, we did not had that father or authority figure who could have intervened on our behalf. Where we could have said, 'You know, daddy, Johnny tried to rob me or Johnny just slapped me', and our father could have either taken us to the police station, or went to school with us to address the issue. So we had to defend for ourselves. Shelton 'Apples' Burrows reform gang leader
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at-risk-communities
at-risk-youth
authority-figure
crime-prevention
father-figure
gang-intervention
gang-members
police-station
rebellion-raiders
single-parents
fatherless-homes
single-mothers
self-defense
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Drexel Deal |
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e457318
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(Tori) (Simon) (Tori) Tori waved at the woods behind our rented house.
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tori
real-world
simon
self-defense
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Kelley Armstrong |