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Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge. -- Nhat Hanh
I couldn't care less if the guy I'm guarding has HIV. I'm going to slam him anyway. -- Dennis Rodman
Today, our brave military men and women, just as those who have gone before them, stand on alert, securing freedom at home and guarding the innocent abroad. -- Conrad Burns
As far as playing, I didn't care who guarded me - red, yellow, black. I just didn't want a white guy guarding me, because it's disrespect to my game. -- Larry Bird
Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance. -- Horace
Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who's only texting you back three words. I've learned that from trying to figure out people who don't deserve to be figured out. -- Taylor Swift
The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it? -- John Lennon
The training part," I guessed. "Yup. You're going to be Dimitri's partner." A moment of funny silence fell, probably not noticeable to anyone except Dimitri and me. Our eyes met. "Guarding partner," Dimitri clarified unnecessarily, like maybe he too had been thinking of other kinds of partners. -- Richelle Mead
Guarding LeBron James has to be the hardest job in basketball. -- Steve Kerr
Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge. -- Nhat Hanh
Kuwait needs tougher guarding. Guarding that's not limited to weapons, soldiers and border control, but extends to every Kuwaiti soul with awareness, vigilance and anticipation -- Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah
Our deepest fears are like dragons, guarding our deepest treasure. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure. -- Ambrose Bierce
Leadership is absolutely about inspiring action, but it is also about guarding against mis-action. -- Simon Sinek
Greatness is not guarding yourself from people. Greatness is being accepted by the people -- Mike Tyson
Jehovah is guarding all those loving him, But all the wicked ones he will annihilate. -- David
When we put someone in our jail cell of hatred, we are stuck guarding the door. -- Max Lucado
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Commercial banks are very good for certain businesses, like loans and guarding other people's money. They're not great investors or entrepreneurs. -- John Gutfreund
While we are guarding the country, we must accept being the guardian of the finest ethics. The country needs it and we must do it. -- Creighton Abrams
While we are guarding the country, we must accept being the guardian of the finest ethics. The country needs it and we must do it. -- Creighton Abrams
Every action is seen to fall into one of three main categories, guarding, hitting, or moving. Here, then, are the elements of combat, whether in war or pugilism. -- B. H. Liddell Hart
The strength that I have comes from irrigating the citrus plantation, ploughing in the vineyard, guarding the melon fields at night. I believe that's what gave me the strength. -- Ariel Sharon
Even though the museums guarding their precious property fence everything off, in my own studio, I made them so you and I could walk in and around, and among these sculptures. -- George Segal
The fact of the matter is that whether it's in London or Egypt or Turkey or New York or Washington, we have to pay the price of guarding ourself, which is internal vigilance. -- John Reid
The Crumbling of America' should be required viewing for local and national government, not to mention the local and national media who should be keeping their feet to the fire on guarding against disaster. -- Rachel Sklar
Those humble but indomitable workers, to whom later generations referred by the collective name of Baale Masorah, Masters of Tradition, performed in obscurity their Herculean task of guarding the Biblical Text against loss or variation. -- Robert Gordis
By developing individual strengths, guarding against weaknesses, and appreciating the strengths of other types, life will be more amusing, more interesting, and more of a daily adventure than it could possibly be if everyone were alike. -- Isabel Briggs Myers
Agribusiness - with its wicked powerful lobby and its infiltration of top bureaucratic posts - essentially runs roughshod over the government agencies that are supposed to monitor it. It's the rich fox guarding the filthy, overcrowded henhouse. -- Jane Velez-Mitchell
I live in a small apartment in London, not some big house with a lot of security. I don't like too much security. There's no freedom. I'm a person, not some precious diamond that needs guarding every second. -- Julian Lennon
And I am convinced that a single focus on preserving the purchasing power of the dollar, in effect, guarding against inflation or deflation, actually creates a solid foundation for the greatest job growth and the strongest economy that America can have. -- Kevin Brady
My parents grew that small business from one 18-year-old guarding a bingo to more than 125 employees in three states. And sure, there was help along the way. But my parents took the risk. They stood up. And you better believe they built it. -- Susana Martinez
[Gold] gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace. Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it. It has no utility. Anyone watching from Mars would be scratching their head. -- Warren Buffett
Good government is that which delivers the citizen from being done out of his life and property too arbitrarily and violently-one that relieves him sufficiently from the barbaric business of guarding them to enable him to engage in gentler, more dignified, and more agreeable undertakings... -- H. L. Mencken
Religious and philosophical beliefs are, indeed, as dangerous as fire, and nothing can take from them that beauty of danger. But there is only one way of really guarding ourselves against the excessive danger of them, and that is to be steeped in philosophy and soaked in religion. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be. -- James A. Baldwin
You have two options when you approach a hostile checkpoint in a war zone, and each is a gamble. The first is to stop and identify yourself as a journalist and hope that you are respected as a neutral observer. The second is to blow past the checkpoint and hope the soldiers guarding it don't open fire on you. -- Lynsey Addario
...Individualistic material progress and the desire to gain prestige by coming out on top have taken over from the sense of fellowship, compassion and community. Now people live more or less on their own in a small house, jealously guarding their goods and planning to acquire more, with a notice on the gate that says, 'Beware of the Dog. -- Jean Vanier
The most effective leaders are actually better at guarding against danger when they acknowledge it that it exists. Cowards, in contrast, cling to the hope that failure will never happen and may be sloppy in the face of danger - not because they don't acknowledge that it exists, but because they are just too afraid of it to look it in the eye. -- Simon Sinek
I Own the guy guarding me -- Michael Jordan
It's common to go from 'crashing the gate' to guarding it. -- Glenn Greenwald
Defense is one man guarding the ball and four others helping him -- Mike Krzyzewski
Always respect Mother Nature. Especially when she weighs 400 pounds and is guarding her baby. -- James Rollins
During courtship, guarding each other's purity and refraining from intimacy are the acts of lovemaking. -- Joshua Harris
You build something but you cant live in the house because you sit around guarding it. -- Rodney Mullen
I visualize the game. I think about who I am guarding, the things he likes to do. -- Scottie Pippen
Scientists should be doing a better job of guarding their own reputations and of the general scientific community. -- Michael F. Jacobson
Charonte are guarding a Dimme? Is the world coming to an end and I missed the memo? (Stryker) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Your heart opens and of course you're completely panicked because you're used to guarding this organ with your life. -- Leonard Cohen
corporate America corrupted the watchdogs that were supposed to be guarding the public interest by feeding them under the table. -- Arianna Huffington
We have a responsibility to stand watch over one another, we are watchers, all of us, watchers, guarding against the darkness. -- Dean Koontz
We are all bodies of water, guarding the mystery of our depths, but some of us have more to guard than others. -- Deborah Smith
Fortifications, artillery, foreign aid - will be of no value, unless the ordinary soldier knows that it is HE guarding his country -- Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
Always guarding one's real, precious self in a cocoon of tranquility within a thousand masks. Life itself had become a secret affair. -- Mary Balogh
Investing now in safe-guarding people by helping them to adapt to climate change, will help save money and lives while building resilience. -- Michael Franti
What's in that backpack, by the way? You're always guarding it like it holds national security secrets or something. (Tory) Dirty underwear. (Acheron) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
A rich woman seems to have all her banknotes about her, guarding her virtue, like a cuirass, in the lining of her corset. -- Gustave Flaubert
Animals are also the ones that are guarding the graves, and they are the ones who communicate between the dead and the alive. -- Michal Rovner
[When you're on fire] it feels like nobody's out there, you're playing by yourself. You don't care how good a defender is guarding you. -- Vince Carter
Like a caring motherholding and guarding the lifeof her only child,so with a boundless heartof lovingkindness,hold yourself and all beingsas your beloved children. -- Gautama Buddha
Only by zealously guarding the rights of the most humble, the most unorthodox, and the most despised among us can freedom flourish and endure in our land. -- Frank Murphy
God's idea of guarding his heart is to guard himself against diminishing love. He guards his love. Now if that doesn't become revolutionary I am not saying it right. -- Beth Moore
An isolated person requires correspondence as a means of seeing his ideas as others see them, and thus guarding against the dogmatisms and extravagances of solitary and uncorrected speculation. -- H. P. Lovecraft
Love of liberty means the guarding of every resource that makes freedom possible-from the sanctity of our families and the wealth of our soil to the genius [of] our scientists... -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Basketball also helps you learn to move your feet by playing defense and guarding guys, and that all carries over to playing football with staying square and having good footwork. -- Calvin Pryor

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