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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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• Our hearts seemed safe in our breasts and sang to the Light The marrow in the bone We dreamed was safe. . . the blood in the veins, the sap in the tree Were springs of Deity.

  Edith Sitwell

  Spring, Heart, Light

  Dame Edith Sitwell (1952). “Selected Poems”

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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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• Honesty was a cheat invented first To bind the hands of bold deserving rogues, That fools and cowards might sit safe in power, And lord it uncontroll'd above their betters.

  Thomas Otway

  Honesty, Hands, Coward

  1682 Venice Preserved, or a Plot Discovered, act1, sc.1.

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• As the first human to land on any world outside the Earth, and probably the first living creature of any sort to come from the Earth and reach the Moon, his legacy will be safe as long as intelligent life survives in this corner of the cosmos.

  Hugh Downs

  Intelligent, Moon, Land

  "NSS Mourns Neil Armstrong – Calls for Renewed Emphasis on Human Space Exploration". www.nss.org. August 26, 2012.

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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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• Safe sex, safe music, safe clothing, safe hair spray, safe ozone layer. Too late! Everything that's been achieved in the history of mankind has been achieved by not being safe.

  Lemmy Kilmister

  Sex, Ozone, Hair

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• And I will place within them as a guide My umpire conscience, whom if they will hear Light after light well used they shall attain, And to the end persisting, safe arrive.

  John Milton

  Light, Umpires, Guides

  1665 Paradise Lost (published 1667), bk.3, l.194-7.

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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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• If men got pregnant, there would be safe, reliable methods of birth control. They'd be cheap, too.

  Anna Quindlen

  Men, Would Be, Birth Control

  "Women Superior - That's No Garbage". New York Times News Service, articles.chicagotribune.com. October 06, 1986.

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• You know, the streets are filled with vipers Who've lost all ray of hope You know, it ain't even safe no more In the palace of the Pope

  Bob Dylan

  Rays, Palaces, Vipers

  Song: Don't Fall Apart on Me Tonight, Album: Infidels

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• There's nothing as safe as ignorance or as dangerous.

  Rex Stout

  Ignorance, Dangerous

  Rex Stout (2010). “Triple Jeopardy”, p.179, Bantam

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• Government of limited power need not be anemic government. Assurance that rights are secure tends to diminish fear and jealousy of strong government, and by making us feel safe to live under it makes for its better support.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Strong, Rights, Government

  "West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 636". Judicial opinion, 1943.

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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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• Ye come and go incessant; we remain Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past; Be reverent, ye who flit and are forgot, Of faith so nobly realized as this.

  James Russell Lowell

  Past, Incessant, Comes And Goes

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.770, Delphi Classics

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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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• Let us build a structure of peace in the world in which the weak are as safe as the strong — in which each respects the right of the other to live by a different system — in which those who would influence others will do so by the strength of their ideas, and not by the force of their arms. Let us accept that high responsibility not as a burden, but gladly — gladly because the chance to build such a peace is the noblest endeavor in which a nation can engage.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Peace, Strong, Responsibility

  Second Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1973

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• Capital burns off the nuance in a culture. Foreign investment, global markets, corporate acquisitions, the flow of information through transnational media, the attenuating influence of money that's electronic and sex that's cyberspaced, untouched money and computer-safe sex, the convergence of consumer desire--not that people want the same things, necessarily, but that they want the same range of choices.

  Don DeLillo

  Sex, Media, People

  Don DeLillo (2015). “Underworld: Picador Classic”, p.769, Pan Macmillan

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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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