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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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• New York was the glamorous town that you only see now in old movies and on Broadway stages. The sky was lit up with dancing neon signs. It was safe to walk out in the streets.

  Art Buchwald

  New York, Sky, Dancing

  Art Buchwald (1993). “Leaving home: a memoir”, Putnam Pub Group

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• The vigour of civilised societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth while. Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives, so that men wander beyond the safe provision of personal gratifications. All strong interests easily become impersonal, the love of a good job well done. There is a sense of harmony about such an accomplishment, the Peace brought by something worth while. Such personal gratification arises from aim beyond personality.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Strong, Jobs, Men

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• We shall see our friends again. We can lay them in the grave; we know they are safe with God.

  Matthew Simpson

  Graves, Friends Again, Knows

  Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”

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• Those who are to conduct a war cannot in the nature of things, be proper or safe judges, whether a war ought to be commenced, continued, or concluded.

  James Madison

  War, Judging, Ought

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.436

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• Most people are looking for security, a nice, safe, prosperous future. And there's nothing wrong with that. It's called the American Dream.

  Lee Iacocca

  Dream, Nice, Prosperous Future

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• Come! Let us lay a lance in rest,
  And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
  For who would live so petty and unblest
  That dare not tilt at something ere he die;
  Rather than, screened by safe majority,
  Preserve his little life to little end,
  And never raise a rebel cry!

  John Galsworthy

  Sky, Majority, Rebel

  John Galsworthy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Galsworthy (Illustrated)”, p.7107, Delphi Classics

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• It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all.

  Isaac Barrow

  Choices

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• On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy such an effect from the greater number of repetitions.

  Hermann Ebbinghaus

  Numbers, Repetition, Difficulty

  Hermann Ebbinghaus “Memory”, Рипол Классик

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• In my early life, and probably even today, it is not sufficiently understood that a child's education should include at least a rudimentary grasp of religion, sex, and money. Without a basic knowledge of these three primary facts in a normal human being's life --subjects which stir the emotions, create events and opportunities, and if they do not wholly decide must greatly influence an individual's personality --no human being's education can have a safe foundation.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Education, Sex, Children

  Phyllis Bottome (1948). “Search for a Soul”, New York, Reynal & Hitchcock [1948]

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• We fear that this moment will end, that we won't get what we need, that we will lose what we love, or that we will not be safe. Often, our biggest fear is the knowledge that one day our bodies will cease functioning. So even when we are surrounded by all the conditions for happiness, our joy is not complete.

  Nhat Hanh

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2012). “Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• We are more than our problems. Even if our problem is our own behavior, the problem is not who we are-it's what we did. It's okay to have problems. It's okay to talk about problems-at appropriate times, and with safe people. It's okay to solve problems. And we're okay, even when we have, or someone we love has a problem. We don't have to forfeit our personal power or our self-esteem. We have solved exactly the problems we've needed to solve to become who we are.

  Melody Beattie

  Self Esteem, People, Who We Are

  Melody Beattie (2003). “The Language of Letting Go: A Meditation Book and Journal for Daily Reflections”, Hazelden Publishing

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• We'll not be sending anyone into space before it is safe and the vehicle is well and truly tested.

  Richard Branson

  Space, Vehicle, Wells

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• We've long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune tellers look good. Even now, Charlie and I continue to believe that short-term market forecasts are poison and should be kept locked up in a safe place, away from children and also from grown-ups who behave in the market like children.

  Warren Buffett

  Children, Believe, Long

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.165, John Wiley & Sons

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• If we can avoid disaster for the next two centuries, our species should be safe as we spread into space. If we are the only intellegent beings in the galaxy we should make sure we survive and continue. . . . Our only chance of long-term survival is not to remain inward looking on planet Earth but to spread out into space. We have made remarkable progress in the last hundred years. But if we want to continue beyond the next hundred years, our future is in space.

  Stephen Hawking

  Moon, Years, Two

  "Abandon Earth or Face Extinction, Stephen Hawking Warns -- Again", www.foxnews.com. August 9, 2010.

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• Why live outside the US? Do you want health care or safe food products or democracy or something? They're all overrated. Stay for the excellent cable TV.

  Ian Mckellen

  Democracy, Cable Tv, Care

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• Following our inner guidance may feel risky and frightening at first, because we are no longer playing it safe, doing what we 'should' do, pleasing others, following rules, or deferring to outside authority.

  Shakti Gawain

  Pleasing Others, Firsts, Playing It Safe

  Shakti Gawain (2011). “Living in the Light: Follow Your Inner Guidance to Create a New Life and a New World”, p.102, New World Library

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• Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.

  Kingman Brewster, Jr.

  Safe Haven, Reality, Risk

  Inaugural address as President of Yale University, April 11, 1964.

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• I think the black community is no different from any other community. We need to take responsibility for how we live together. We need to be personally responsible for keeping our streets clean, our schools safe, and our houses peaceful.

  Pearl Cleage

  School, Responsibility, Thinking

  "Q and A with Author Pearl Cleage". Q and A with Author Pearl Cleage, abcnews.go.com.

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• I found for me that my safe place was work. I could control my environment. I became very fastidious and detailed, and wanted things a certain way.

  Marie Osmond

  Way, Environment, Found

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• To be on the safe and humane side, let every relative and friend ... remember the golden rule, which has never been suspended with respect to the insane. Go to see them, treat them sanely, write to them, keep them informed about the home circle; let not your devotion flag, nor accept any repulse.

  Clifford Whittingham Beers

  Home, Writing, Relatives And Friends

  Clifford Whittingham Beers (2015). “A Mind That Found Itself”, p.46, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• We could easily have evolved eyelids thick enough to keep out the light, but we still need to see the shadows fall across them. We're not yet safe.

  Don Paterson

  Fall, Light, Safety

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• Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too safe, too often. Too defensive. Too reactive. Later, too often on the back foot.

  John Major

  Regret, Voice, Feet

  John Major (2013). “John Major: The Autobiography”, p.9, HarperCollins UK

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• It is wonderful to be in the country in a glass house, because no matter what happens out there, you're nice and safe, you know, cuddled in your little bed, and there it is, raging storms, snowing - wonderful.

  Philip Johnson

  Country, Nice, Glasses

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