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• Morality is nothing but a struggle for safety

  H. L. Mencken

  Struggle, Morality

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• Why do the easy expected thing? It takes guts to follow your dreams. Courage. Many people, even those who love you, don't understand how compelling that can be, and will try to keep you in the “safety zone”. But f*#! that. Half the fun is venturing into the unknown, taking on the difficult task that yields new knowledge, doing more and testing your limits.

  Marshall Ulrich

  Dream, Fun, Love You

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• Food safety oversight is largely, but not exclusively, divided between two agencies, the FDA and the USDA. The USDA mostly oversees meat and poultry; the FDA mostly handles everything else, including pet food and animal feed. Although this division of responsibility means that the FDA is responsible for 80% of the food supply, it only gets 20% of the federal budget for this purpose. In contrast, the USDA gets 80% of the budget for 20% of the foods. This uneven distribution is the result of a little history and a lot of politics.

  Marion Nestle

  Mean, Responsibility, Animal

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• Costa Rica remains peacefully and firmly committed to the well- being and safety of our population. We promote a model of development based upon harmony with nature; solidarity and social inclusion; economic and trade opening; development of our human resources, and innovation.

  Laura Chinchilla

  Innovation, Population, Costa Rica

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• So one way to create an attractive risk/reward situation is to limit downside risk severely by investing in situations that have a large margin of safety. The upside, while still difficult to quantify, will usually take care of itself. In other words, look down, not up, when making your initial investment decision. If you don’t lose money, most of the remaining alternatives are good ones.

  Joel Greenblatt

  Decision, Risk, Alternatives

  Joel Greenblatt (2010). “You Can Be a Stock Market Genius: Uncover the Secret Hiding Places of Stock Market P”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• I am a man of peace. I am longing and working and praying for peace, but I will not surrender the safety and security of the British constitution. You placed me in power eighteen months ago by the largest majority accorded to any party for many, many years. Have I done anything to forfeit that confidence? Cannot you trust me to ensure a square deal to secure even justice between man and man?

  Stanley Baldwin

  Party, Men, Squares

  Speech on BBC radio on the General Strike on May 08, 1926. "Baldwin: A Biography". Book by Keith Middlemas and John Barnes, p. 415, 1969.

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• Go beyond reason to love: it is safe. It is the only safety.

  Thaddeus Golas

  Safe, Reason, Reason To Love

  Thaddeus Golas (2002). “The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment”, p.104, Gibbs Smith

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• Certainly all "progressive" thought, has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security, and avoidance of pain... Hitler, because in his joyless mind he feels it with exceptional strength, knows that human beings don't only want comfort, safety, short working-hours, hygiene, birth-control and, in general, common sense; they also, at least intermittently, want struggle and self-sacrifice, not to mention drums, flags and loyalty-parades. However they may be as economic theories, Fascism and Nazism are psychologically far sounder than any hedonistic conception of life.

  George Orwell

  Loyalty, Pain, Struggle

  George Orwell's review of the book "Mein Kampf" by Adolf Hitler in "New English Weekly", March 21, 1940.

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• For, what is a family without a steward, a ship without a pilot, a flock without a shepherd, a body without a head, the same, I think, is a kingdom without the health and safety of a good monarch.

  Elizabeth I

  Leadership, Thinking, Shepherds

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• There was only one catch and that was Catch22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask, and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to.

  Joseph Heller

  Crazy, Real, Mind

  Catch-22 ch. 5 (1961).

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• I tell you loneliness is the thing to master. Courage and fear, love, death are only parts of it and can easily be ruled afterwards. If I make myself master my own loneliness there will be peace or safety: and perhaps these are the same.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Love, Loneliness, Age

  "Gellhorn: A Twentieth Century Life". Book by Caroline Moorehead, p. 88, 2003.

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• There is no error more absurd, and yet more rooted in the heart of man, than the belief that his sufferings will promote his spiritual safety.

  Charles Robert Maturin

  Spiritual, Heart, Men

  Charles Robert Maturin (2016). “Melmoth the Wanderer”, p.321, Charles Robert Maturin

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• His idea of traffic safety is going too fast for the cops to catch up.

  Mira Grant

  Ideas, Cop, Traffic

  Mira Grant (2010). “Feed: The Newsflesh Trilogy:”, p.188, Hachette UK

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• Safety is relative. You can be so close to shore that you can practically feel it under your feet, when you suddenly find yourself breaking apart on the rocks.

  Jodi Picoult

  Rocks, Feet, Finding Yourself

  Jodi Picoult (2011). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.453, Simon and Schuster

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• The backstreet cafe in Casablanca was for me a place of mystery, a place with a soul, a place with danger. There was a sense that the safety nets had been cut away, that each citizen walked upon the high wire of this, the real world. I longed not merely to travel through it, but to live in such a city.

  Tahir Shah

  Real, Cutting, Cities

  Tahir Shah (2010). “The Caliph's House”, p.1, Random House

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• [T]he hour is fast approaching, on which the Honor and Success of this army, and the safety of our bleeding Country depend. Remember officers and Soldiers, that you are Freemen, fighting for the blessings of Liberty - that slavery will be your portion, and that of your posterity, if you do not acquit yourselves like men.

  George Washington

  Country, Army, Fighting

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.149

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• He knew that we gave constant lip service to the dictates of safety and howled like Christians condemned to the arena if any compromise were made of it. He knew we were seekers after ease, suspicious, egotistic, and stubborn to a fault. He also knew that none of us would have continued our careers unless we had always been, and still were, helpless before this opportunity to take a chance.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Christian, Opportunity, Careers

  Ernest K. Gann (1986). “Fate is the Hunter: A Pilot's Memoir”, p.178, Simon and Schuster

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• Though, as he was torn into a pink upper air, she was a good craft to ride in, for her belly was firm and her breasts enabled a flying man good hold and emotions of heady safety. . . . Steering her peasant tits he bounded off stars.

  Thomas Keneally

  Stars, Men, Air

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• During the course of administration, and in order to disturb it, the artillery of the press has been levelled against us, charged with whatsoever its licentiousness could devise or dare. These abuses of an institution so important to freedom and science are deeply to be regretted, inasmuch as they tend to lessen its usefulness and to sap its safety.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Order, Abuse, Important

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• That peace, safety, and concord may be the portion of our native land, and be long enjoyed by our fellow-citizens, is the most ardent wish of my heart, and if I can be instrumental in procuring or preserving them, I shall think I have not lived in vain.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Peace, Heart, Thinking

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1859). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence”, p.378

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• It is not given to us to peer into the mysteries of the future. Still, I avow my hope and faith, sure and inviolate, that in the days to come the British and American peoples will for their own safety and for the good of all walk together side by side in majesty, in justice, and in peace.

  Winston Churchill

  Peace, Justice, Together

  'Masters of Our Fate' Speech to Joint Session of the U.S. Congress, delivered 26 December 1941, Washington, D.C.

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• I feel, as never before, how justly, from the dawn of history to the present time, men have paid the homage of their gratitude and admiration to the memory of those who nobly sacrifice their lives, that their fellow-men may live in safety and in honor.

  Edward Everett

  Gratitude, Memories, Grateful

  Svend Petersen, Edward Everett (1963). “The Gettysburg addresses: the story of two orations”

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• Nothing but widespread suffering will produce any effect on Congress... Our only safety is in pursuing a steady course of firm restriction - and I have no doubt that such a course will ultimately lead to restoration of the currency and the re-charter of the bank.

  Nicholas Biddle

  Doubt, Suffering, Bankers

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• People want the tragedy. They need things to go wrong, they need the tension. In my characters there’s a core of trust and love that I’m very committed to. These guys would die for each other, and it’s very beautiful. But at the same time, you can’t keep that safety. Things have to go wrong, bad things have to happen.

  Joss Whedon

  Beautiful, Character, People

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 05, 2001.

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• If you're cooking and not making mistakes, you're not playing outside your safety zone. I don't expect it all to be good. I have fat dogs because I scrap that stuff out the back door.

  Guy Fieri

  Dog, Mistake, Safety Zone

  Interview with Rachael Ray, www.rachaelraymag.com. November 1, 2005.

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