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"It's not a weapon or a woman can make a man, or magery either, or any power, anything but himself."
"It's then that I realize: Of course Tris would go into the Weapons Lab instead of Caleb. Of course she would."
"He won't hurt me. I have a secret weapon."
"I've been accused of wanting to allow terrorists to have weapons to attack America."
"For example, the use of chemical weapons [in Syria]- some on the Democrat side have said well, this encourages the North Koreans to use chemical weapons against our troops."
"A weapon you held and didn't know how to use belonged to your enemy."
"The automobile is the most dangerous weapon in our society - cars kill more than wars do."
"Some prisons don't allow guitar because the strings can be detached and used as weapons."
"I'm not going to fight in the physical with physical weapons, because it's not a physical fight. I'm going to fight with spiritual weapons, cause it's a spiritual fight."
"It was the removing of a regime that was hostile, that clearly had the intention of constructing weapons systems."
"I still gasp at the revealing lingo for weapons: erector launchers, thrust ratios; my teeth grind reflexively when Dubya sputters Eye-Rack and Eye-Ran have 'nookyular capabacity."
"The great dynamic success of capitalism had given us a powerful weapon in our battle against Communism-money."
"The natural law is an instrument for progress, not a weapon of revolution."
"A smile can express more than a thousand feelings, but to me The Unknown, its the deadliest weapon i was created with and have control over"
"If Americans were attacked, it does change the equation. The problem is, is that with regard to this is there've been horrendous killings of civilians with conventional weapons."
"He had fought back with every weapon in his arsenal, being alternatively obtuse, evasive and pedantic, for it was wonderful how you could obscure an emotional issue by appearing to seek precision."
"I have no weapon but nonviolence."
"Non-violence should never be used as a shield for cowardice. It is a weapon for the brave."
"Nonviolence in politics is a new weapon in the process of evolution; its vast possibilities are yet unexplored."