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• If a Snickers chocolate bar has 50% sugar, wouldn't it be safe to eat the other half?

  Wakas Mir

  Chocolate, Bars, Half

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• There are only a few safe targets left, just a few groups of people you can say anything negative about without getting in trouble for it. I've made a list of safe targets and I probably ought to stick to those. Politicians, for instance. You can say anything you want about them, and it doesn't matter how unfair you are. People seem to like it.

  Andy Rooney

  People, Say Anything, Groups

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• Better one safe way than a hundred on which you cannot reckon.

  Aesop

  Way, Hundred, Method

  Aesop (2013). “Aesop's Fables”, p.39, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I'm shooting a commercial for safe sex. How ironic. Because I don't have that.

  Tila Tequila

  Sex, Ironic, Shooting

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• I'm very musically curious and I love new experience. I'm an adventurer. Some people want to sort of stay in a safe zone and repeat the same things and give them more depth, and I want to do new things all the time

  Tavis Smiley

  New Experiences, People, Giving

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think in high school there's so many cliques. You're never safe.

  Blake Lively

  School, Thinking, Clique

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• No one can tell me what to do on my skateboard. My skateboard is my safe spot. I can learn tricks, I can have fun, I can do whatever I want on my skateboard.

  Ryan Sheckler

  Fun, Want, Spots

  "Q&A with Ryan Sheckler". Interview with Arash Markazi, www.si.com. August 01, 2009.

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• That was the one thing about the rain that likened it to sorrow: You did your best to remain untouched, safe and dry, but if and when you failed, there came a point in which you started seeing the problem less in terms of drops than as an incessant gush, and thereby you decide you might as well get drenched.

  Elif Safak

  Rain, Ifs And, Sorrow

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• The important things for a mom is that her kids are watched, and are safe and it's a good care environment.

  Gary Myers

  Mom, Kids, Important

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• When an instrument admits two constructions, the one safe, the other dangerous, the one precise, the other indefinite, I prefer that which is safe and precise.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Two, Construction, Instruments

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private”, p.506

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• When Providence favors, you can make a safe voyage on a twig.

  Publilius Syrus

  Favors, Voyages, Twigs

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• Burn, O evening hearth, and waken Pleasant visions, as of old! Though the house by winds be shaken, Safe I keep this room of gold!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Wind, House, Vision

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.333

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• Sail forth into the sea of life, O gentle, loving, trusting wife, And safe from all adversity Upon the bosom of that sea Thy comings and thy goings be! For gentleness and love and trust Prevail o'er angry wave and gust; And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Adversity, Sea, Wife

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.130

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• There are now more obese people in the United States than there are overweight people. I think it's safe to say that after all these years, Diet Coke is a complete failure.

  Jay Leno

  Thinking, Years, People

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• Access to a secure, safe and sufficient source of fresh water is a fundamental requirement for the survival, well-being and socio-economic development of all humanity. Yet, we continue to act as if fresh water were a perpetually abundant resource. It is not.

  Kofi Annan

  Water, Humanity, Survival

  "Is the World Running Out of Water?". Awake! magazine, June 22, 2001.

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• Timidity keeps me safe and sad in a narrow room.

  Mason Cooley

  Rooms, Timidity

  "City Aphorisms: Eighth Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1991.

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• There is no safe standard to tell man from animals.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Animal, Men, Standards

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p.150, 1982.

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• Paranormal phenomena have a habit of going away whenever they are tested under rigorous conditions. This is why the $1,000,000 reward of James Randi, offered to anyone who can demonstrate a paranormal effect under proper scientific controls, is safe.

  James Randi

  Going Away, Rewards, Habit

  FaceBook post by James Randi from Nov 06, 2012

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• All people need to know how AIDS is transmitted, and every country has an obligation to educate its citizens. This is why every country must also improve literacy, especially for women and girls, so that they can make wise choices that will keep them healthy and safe.

  Laura Bush

  Girl, Wise, Country

  Mrs. Bush's Remarks at United Nations General Assembly High Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS, New York, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. June 02, 2006.

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• In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did not need a passport for any country except Russia.:; The European emigrant, if he could scrape together a few pounds for the passage, simply set sail for America or Australia, and when he got there no questions were asked.:; In the eighteenth century it had been quite normal and safe to travel in a country with which your own country was at war.

  George Orwell

  Country, War, America

  George Orwell (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: As I please, 1943-1945”

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• They are only safe That know to soothe the prince's appetite, And serve his lusts.

  Philip Massinger

  Lust, Appetite, Knows

  1626 The Roman Actor, act1, sc.1.

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• The Messiah comes not only as the redeemer, he comes as the subduer of Antichrist. Only that historian will have the gift of fanning the spark of hope in the past who is firmly convinced that even the dead will not be safe from the enemy if he wins. And this enemy has not ceased to be victorious.

  Walter Benjamin

  Winning, Past, Enemy

  Walter Benjamin (1968). “Illuminations”, p.265, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The apostle of Christianity and the infidel can meet without a chance of a quarrel; but it is never safe to bring together two men who differ about a saint or a surplice.

  Anthony Trollope

  Men, Two, Together

  Anthony Trollope, John Bowen (2011). “Phineas Redux”, p.236, Oxford University Press

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• Speeding is like drugs. It makes everything come at you fast, and when you go back to normal driving, safe driving, prudent driving, it seems boring. That's the danger of drugs. At first it's intoxicating, but then the rest of your life you're trying to find that very first time. It never is the same.

  Tim Allen

  Drug, Trying, Prudent

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• I am not sure that it is best for us, once safe and secure on the Rock of Ages, to ask ourselves too closely what this and that experience may signify. Is it not better to be thinking of the Rock, not of the feet that stand upon it?

  Elizabeth Prentiss

  Thinking, Rocks, Feet

  Elizabeth Prentiss (2015). “Thoughts Concerning the King”, p.47

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