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• What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Ambition, Order, Generosity

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• Everyone has the right to walk from one end of the city to the other in secure and beautiful spaces. Everybody has the right to go by public transport. Everybody has the right to an unhampered view down their street, not full of railings, signs and rubbish.

  Richard Rogers

  Beautiful, Journey, Views

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• We reserve our deepest respect and admiration for those who volunteer for service and give their lives to help keep our nation secure.

  Mitt Romney

  Volunteer, Giving, Admiration And Respect

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• I'm in a position of feeling secure enough so that I can say what I think is right and if so many people think it's wrong that I get fired, well, I've got enough to eat.

  Andy Rooney

  Thinking, People, Feelings

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• However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

  J. K. Rowling

  College, Views, Imagination

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• Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

  Bertrand Russell

  Freedom, Thinking, Government

  Bertrand Russell, John Greer Slater, Peter Köllner (1996). “A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42”, p.443, Psychology Press

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• I think I'm learning to be bolder in my career choices and be more confident in my personal life. I haven't always felt very secure as an individual, but now I feel I certain confidence and sense of self that gets me through the day a lot better than before.

  Winona Ryder

  Confidence, Thinking, Self

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• Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

  George Sand

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Simplicity

  George Sand (2009). “Letters of George Sand”, p.355, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.

  George Santayana

  Prayer, People, Effort

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.138, 谷月社

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• Like it or not children are being raised by gay and lesbian parents all over America - as many as 10 million children. And it does nothing to make their lives more stable and secure to attack their families, to attack their parents to prevent us from marrying each other.

  Dan Savage

  Children, Gay, America

  "Gay Marriage: The Dan Savage Interview". Interview with Tim Dickinson, www.rollingstone.com. June 21, 2006.

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• Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Men, Perfection, Personality

  Albert Schweitzer (2015). “The Light Within Us”, p.30, Open Road Media

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• Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people, how you argue, how secure you are in your own thoughts. How vehemently do you argue your point of view? With what disdain do you view the other's point of view?

  William Shatner

  Reflection, Views, People

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• And gradually they're beginning to recognize the fact that there's nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it's sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms.

  Wole Soyinka

  Government, Facts, Form

  FaceBook post by Wole Soyinka from May 14, 2013

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• All good actors are unpredictable, and a little crazy in a good way, because they feel more secure playing other people than themselves.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Crazy, People, Actors

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• A lot of actors, and artists in general, never feel secure in love. They always feel everything's going to be taken away from them, professionally and personally; they're extremely emotional and volatile.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Taken, Artist, Emotional

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• Secure our borders first. Let us know and let us make sure the American people know that we're taking care of the important business of dealing with the illegal immigration into this country. You cannot begin to address the concerns of the people who are already here unless and until you have made certain that no more are coming in behind them.

  Michael Steele

  Country, People, Important

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• Democrats have always historically referred to our families as working families, and I have sort of changed that moniker. I think what we have is a nation of worried families - families that are concerned about job security, families who thought their pensions were secure and now have questions.

  Tom Vilsack

  Jobs, Thinking, Worried

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• Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Opportunity, Competition, Democracy

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• My family suffered. My hair turned up in every corner, every drawer, every meal. Even in the rice puddings Tessie made, covering each little bowl with wax paper before putting it away in the fridge--even into these prophylactically secure desserts my hair found its way! Jet black hairs wound themselves around bars of soap. They lay pressed like flower stems between the pages of books. They turned up in eyeglass cases, birthday cards, once--I swear--inside an egg Tessie had just cracked. The next-door neighbor's cat coughed up a hairball one day and the hair was not the cat's.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Flower, Book, Cat

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.306, A&C Black

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• But wherever we are, we must all, in our daily lives, live up to the age-old faith that peace and freedom walk together. In too many of our cities today, the peace is not secure because freedom is incomplete." (John F. Kennedy, June 10, 1963, American University speech)

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, June, Cities

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.464, Best Books on

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• Should the whole frame of nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world.

  Joseph Addison

  Nature, Fall, Confusion

  Translation of Horace Odes bk. 3, ode 3.

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• The way of trust is a movement into obscurity, into the undefined, into ambiguity, not into some predetermined, clearly delineated plan for the future. The next step discloses itself only out of a discernment of God acting in the desert of the present moment. The reality of naked trust is the life of the pilgrim who leaves what is nailed down, obvious, and secure, and walks into the unknown without any rational explanation to justify the decision or guarantee the future. Why? Because God has signaled the movement and offered it his presence and his promise.

  Brennan Manning

  Reality, Decision, Promise

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• In my own life, as winters turn into spring, I find it not only hard to cope with mud but also hard to credit the small harbingers of larger life to come, hard to hope until the outcome is secure. Spring teaches me to look more carefully for the green stems of possibility; for the intuitive hunch that may turn into a larger insight, for the glance or touch that may thaw a frozen relationship, for the stranger's act of kindness that makes the world seem hospitable again.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Kindness, Spring, Winter

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• I believe in the value of the book, which keeps something irreplaceable, and in the necessity of fighting to secure its respect.

  Jacques Derrida

  Believe, Book, Fighting

  Jacques Derrida (2005). “Paper Machine”, p.28, Stanford University Press

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• We do not deny any nation's legitimate interest in security. But protecting the security of one nation by robbing another of its national independence and national traditions is not legitimate. In the long run, it is not even secure.

  Ronald Reagan

  Running, Long, Independence

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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