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Shields were generally made of wood, covered with leather, or some similar substance. To secure them, in some sort, from being cut through by the sword, they were surrounded with a hoop of metal.


Thomas Bulfinch


#covered #cut #generally #hoop #leather

Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.


Edmund Burke


#itself #may #mistaken #persecution #piety

Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.


Quentin Crisp


#carry #consumer #green #marketed #must

The Russians love Brooke Shields because her eyebrows remind them of Leonid Brezhnev.


Robin Williams


#brooke #brooke shields #eyebrows #her #love

There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.


Woodrow Wilson


#alter #cannot #children #consequences #control

Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.


Frank Herbert


#myth #often #partakes #progress #religion

But it must not be thought that I say this out of personal experience: for in the many years that I have been before the public my secret methods have been steadily shielded by the strict integrity of my assistants, most of whom have been with me for years.


Harry Houdini


#been #before #experience #i #integrity

Parents, however old they and we may grow to be, serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As long as they are around, we can avoid the fact of our mortality; we can still be innocent children.


Jane Howard


#around #avoid #children #doom #fact

So you're quite right that when... as the Cold War grew and expanded out of Europe, we ourselves had to take refuge behind the shield of the Monroe Doctrine.


E. Howard Hunt


#cold #cold war #doctrine #europe #expanded

We believe democracy to be the only real guarantor of stability and we have sought to create a 'Jordanian model' that might also inspire others in our region. I wish democracy and peace to be my legacy to my people and the shield of generations to come.


King Hussein I


#believe #come #create #democracy #generations






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