Ayoob Quotes

#1. any community that does not police itself will be policed from outside.

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#2. want to crawl inside his skin and wrap herself around his

Louise Penny

#3. First of all, you are not really that supreme.

Lupe Fiasco

#4. The way to reason with a predator is to make it aware that it can live in a cage, or it can die, but it can no longer prey upon us.

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#5. I love you, baby. And I want you to stay with me. Always. (Devyn)
Believe me, there's no place else I'd rather be. (Alix)
Me, either, but I would rather we be naked. (Devyn)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#6. The Second Amendment isn't about duck hunting or target shooting.

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#7. Those who shoot in competition seem to have a remarkably high hit potential and survival ratio in actual gunfights.

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#8. The two-inch blade can penetrate four inches into such parts of the body, the four-inch blade eight inches, etc. Having

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#9. Unsettling and Troubling Symptoms.

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#10. Due to not getting pumped regular, females take the oddest fancies, such as imagining they can think.

Loretta Chase

#11. I resent 'experts' who have never faced deadly threat, yet who tell me - and you - that we should not consider a response of equal power against those who would threaten our lives.

Massad Ayoob

#12. And never let those who judge you forget that since you were obviously close enough to your opponent to shoot him with your gun, he was, ipso facto, close enough to shoot you with his. If,

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#13. I never considered myself an artist. I aspire to be an artist, but I never thought I had the depth or substance or gift to be an artist. I do think I have some talent, but it doesn't go as far as being an artist.

Woody Allen

#14. Remember: once you have ascertained that you are dealing with hostile intruders, the staircase becomes a free-fire zone.

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#15. My own idea of a $5,500 .45 auto is a used Volkswagon with a Glock 30 in the glove box ...

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#16. Oh, on that day, that wrathful day,
When man to judgment wakes front clay,
Be Thou, O Christ, the sinner's stay,
Though heaven and earth shall pass away.

Walter Scott

#17. A basic principle of American justice holds that a bad man has the same rights as a good man.

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#18. I want to plant forget-me-nots in your mind so that you think about me all the time.

Isobel Harrop

#19. Firearms, if you think about it, are power tools. They drill holes in things and chew things up. That's their purpose. The purpose of the user is, quite simply, to puncture and destroy the right things and not the wrong things.

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#20. Success is not only for the elite. Success is there for those who want it, plan for it, and take action to achieve it.

Jim Brown

#21. You can look at a monkey and see that there is more than a five percent difference in DNA.

Bob Enyart

#22. Instantly I regretted my decision. It was one of those times when you hear yourself saying something, and it seems like a good idea at the time, but once you blurt it out you can hardly believe it's you speaking. What was I thinking?

Tara Shuler

#23. The practice of CCW comes with a commitment, if you're serious, and that commitment is that you will actually carry the damn thing!

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#24. At the most we gaze at it in wonder, a kind of wonder which in itself is a form of dawning horror, for somehow we know by instinct that outsize buildings cast the shadow of their own destruction before them, and are designed from the first with an eye to their later existence as ruins.

W.G. Sebald

#25. Let us not settle for what is simply 'OK' when we have full information on what can create lasting change.

Rinku Sen

#26. You're born with intelligence, but not with ethics.

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#27. In any society, Law is an illusory concept that works only when everyone voluntarily agrees to live by it.

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#28. In the end, the focus on safety should be credited to the entire firearms-owning community, the "gun culture" if you will.

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