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• To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will most certainly be wrung and possibly broken ... The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.

  C. S. Lewis

  Heart, Love Is, Broken

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• Anything that feels familiar and comfortable [is home]. It's wherever I feel safe and safest. Most of the time, that's just Barbados. It's warm, it's beautiful, it's the beach, it's my family, it's the food, it's the music. Everything feels familiar, feels right and feels safe. So, Barbados is home for me.

  Rihanna

  Beautiful, Beach, Home

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• I think all kids understand from a very tender age that dinosaurs were real. They really walked around. That instantly sets them apart from monsters. And it instantly makes them safe. Because you can love 'em, and they're never going to bite you. They're not like a dog. They're safer than a pet, in a weird way.

  Stephen R. Bissette

  Dog, Real, Kids

  Interview with Chris Dahlen, www.avclub.com. July 23, 2009.

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• No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.

  Moliere

  Attention, World, Pay

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• The journalists think that they cannot say too much in favor of such "improvements" in husbandry; it is a safe theme, like piety;but as for the beauty of one of these "model farms," I would as lief see a patent churn and a man turning it. They are, commonly, places merely where somebody is making money, it may be counterfeiting.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Thinking, Religion

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “The Maine Woods”, p.158

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• Wealth brings with it its own checks and balances. The basis of political economy is noninterference. The only safe rule is found in the self-adjusting meter of demand and supply. Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands. In a free and just commonwealth, property rushes from the idle and imbecile to the industrious, brave and persevering.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Opportunity, Doors, Self

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• To honor with hymns and panegyrics those who are still alive is not safe; a man should run his course and make a fair ending, and then we will praise him; and let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.

  Plato

  Running, Men, Hymns

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• Ignorance and prejudice are the ballast of our ship of state - however, ships without ballast are not seaworthy and cannot sail in the tempests, nor reach a safe harbor.

  George Orwell

  Fear, Ignorance, Prejudice

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• But of all the views of this law [universal education] none is more important, none more legitimate, than that of rendering the people the safe, as they are the ultimate, guardians of their own liberty.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Education, Views, Law

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• Our affections and beliefs are wiser than we; the best that is in us is better than we can understand; for it is grounded beyond experience, and guides us, blindfold but safe, from one age on to another.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Age, Belief, Affection

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses”, p.4545, e-artnow

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• In football the object is for the quarterback, also known as the field general, to be on target with his aerial assault, riddling the defense by hitting his receivers with deadly accuracy in spite of the blitz, even if he has to use the shotgun. With short bullet passes and long bombs, he marches his troops into enemy territory, balancing this aerial assault with a sustained ground attack that punches holes in the forward wall of the enemy's defensive line. In baseball the object is to go home! And to be safe! I hope I'll be safe at home!

  George Carlin

  Sports, Baseball, Football

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• War knows no power. Safe shall be my going,
  Secretly armed against all death's endeavour;
  Safe though all safety's lost; safe where men fall;
  And if these poor limbs die, safest of all.

  Rupert Brooke

  War, Fall, Men

  Rupert Brooke (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• Friendship is but a name, faith is an empty name. Alas,
  it is not safe to praise to a friend the object of your love;
  as soon as he believes your praises, he slips into your place.

  Ovid

  Friendship, Believe, Names

  Ovid, G. P. Goold (1985). “The art of love, and other poems”

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• The measure discriminates definitely against products which make up what has been universally considered a program of safe farming. The bill upholds as ideals of American farming the men who grow cotton, corn, rice, swine, tobacco, or wheat and nothing else. These are to be given special favors at the expense of the farmer who has toiled for years to build up a constructive farming enterprise to include a variety of crops and livestock.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Men, Years, Agriculture

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• flight from tyranny does not of itself insure a safe asylum, far less a happy home.

  Herman Melville

  Home, Doe, Asylums

  Herman Melville (2009). “Billy Budd and Other Tales”, p.251, Penguin

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• The Enormous Room seems to me to be the book that has nearest approached the mood of reckless adventure in which men will reach the white heat of imagination needed to fuse the soggy disjointed complexity of the industrial life about us into seething fluid of creation. There can be no more playing safe.

  John Dos Passos

  Book, Creativity, Adventure

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• As long as there are men the bulwark is safe.

  Aeschylus

  Men, Long, Security

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• The sky breaks.
  It sags and breathes upon my face.
  in the presence of mine enemies, mine enemies
  The world is full of enemies.
  There is no safe place.

  Anne Sexton

  Sky, Enemy, World

  Anne Sexton (1964). “Selected poems”

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• For most of my adult life, I have been an emotional hit-and- run driver--that is, a reporter. I made people like me, trust me, open their hearts and their minds to me, and cry and bleed on to the pages of my neat little notebooks, and then I went back to a safe place and made a story out of it.

  Anna Quindlen

  Trust, Notebook, Running

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.224, Ballantine Books

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• The Cairo conferenceis about a complicated web of education and employment, consumption and poverty, development and health care. It is also about whether governments will follow where women have so clearly led them, toward safe, simple and reliable choices in family planning. While Cairo crackles with conflict, in the homes of the world the orthodoxies have been duly heard, and roundly ignored.

  Anna Quindlen

  Home, Simple, Government

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• Generalization, especially risky generalization, is one of the chief methods by which knowledge proceeds... Safe generalizations are usually rather boring. Delete that "usually rather." Safe generalizations are quite boring.

  Joseph Epstein

  Boring, Chiefs, Method

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• Just what is the civil law? What neither influence can affect, nor power break, nor money corrupt: were it to be suppressed or even merely ignored or inadequately observed, no one would feel safe about anything, whether his own possessions, the inheritance he expects from his father, or the bequests he makes to his children.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Children, Father, Law

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• The utopian male concept which is the premise of male pornography is this--since manhood is established and confirmed over and against the brutalized bodies of women, men need not aggress against each other; in other words, women absorb male aggression so that men are safe from it.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Men, Males, Needs

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• The thing political figures fear most is a terror event that will ruin their careers. The biggest thing they fear is that a bomb goes off and it can be traced to something they did or didn’t do, an action they did or didn’t support. They all fear being accused of not doing enough to keep the citizenry safe.

  Peggy Noonan

  Careers, Support, Political

  "The Era of Metadata". blogs.wsj.com. June 8, 2013.

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• Adolescents' immature thinking makes it difficult for them to process the divorce. They tend to see things in black-and-white terms and have trouble putting events into perspective. They are absolute in their judgments and expect perfection in parents. They are likely to be self-conscious about their parent's failures and critical of their every move. They have the expectations that parents will keep them safe and happy and are shocked by the broken covenant. Adolescents are unforgiving.

  Mary Pipher

  Moving, Divorce, Black And White

  Mary Pipher (2005). “Reviving Ophelia”, p.120, Penguin

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