Leonard Cohen
Singer-Songwriter
"Your heart opens and of course you're completely panicked because you're used to guarding this organ with your life."
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Guarding
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Mike Tyson
Professional Boxer
"Greatness is not guarding yourself from the people, Greatness is being accepted by the people."
Emily Bronte
Poet, Novelist
"He had been content with daily labour and rough animal enjoyments, 'till Catherine crossed his path. Shame at her scorn, and hope of her approval, were his first prompts to higher pursuits; and, instead of guarding him from one and winning him to the other, his endeavors to raise himself had produced just the contrary result."
David
Musician
"Jehovah is guarding all those loving him, But all the wicked ones he will annihilate."
James Rollins
Author, Veterinarian
"Always respect Mother Nature. Especially when she weighs 400 pounds and is guarding her baby."
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"A sense of being part of the great all-inclusive life prompts us to reflect on our own place and on how we ought to live. Guarding others' lives, the ecology and the earth is the same as protecting one's own life. By like token, wounding them is the same thing as wounding oneself. Consequently, it is the duty of each of us to participate as members of the life community in the evolution of the universe. We can do this by guarding earth's ecological system."
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"Leadership is absolutely about inspiring action, but it is also about guarding against mis-action."
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"A rich woman seems to have all her banknotes about her, guarding her virtue, like a cuirass, in the lining of her corset."
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