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• No one will ever know what I went through to secure those negatives. The world can never appreciate it. It changed the whole course of my life.

  Mathew Brady

  Appreciate, World, Changed

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• It is dangerous to live in a secure world.

  Teju Cole

  World, Dangerous

  Teju Cole (2011). “Open City”, p.200, Faber & Faber

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• I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small circulating library in every county, to consist of a few well-chosen books, to be lent to the people of the country under regulations as would secure their safe return in due time.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Book, Safe Return

  Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1601, Library of America

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• We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, that to secure these rights governments are instituted among men. We...solemnly publish and declare, that these colonies are and of a right ought to be free and independent states...and for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honour.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Independent, Men, Pursuit Of Happiness

  Thomas Jefferson (1997). “Thomas Jefferson, His Words and Vision”, p.15, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• It is to secure our rights that we resort to government at all.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Rights, Government, Resorts

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.114

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• To secure respect to a neutral flag requires a naval force organized and ready to vindicate it from insult or aggression.

  George Washington

  Flags, Insult, Force

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral and Religious”, p.220

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• I mean to be too rich to lament or to feel anything of the sort. A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. It certainly may secure all the myrtle and turkey part of it.

  Jane Austen

  Mean, Turkeys, Myrtle

  'Mansfield Park' (1814) ch. 22

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• Place three individuals in a situation wherein the interest of each depends on the voice of the others, and give to two of them an interest opposed to the rights of the third. Will the latter be secure? The prudence of every man would shun the danger. The rules & forms of justice suppose & guard against it. Will two thousand in a like situation be less likely to encroach on the rights of one thousand?

  James Madison

  Men, Rights, Two

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• The constitution ought to secure a genuine militia and guard against a select militia. ...All regulations tending to render this general militia useless and defenseless, by establishing select corps of militia, or distinct bodies of military men, not having permanent interests and attachments to the community ought to be avoided.

  Richard Henry Lee

  Military, Men, Community

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• The Congress has historically played covert communal politics in order to create what in India we call vote banks where you pit one community against another and so on in order to secure votes.

  Arundhati Roy

  Order, Community, India

  "Arundhati Roy On the Indian Elections, Her Support for the Iraqi Resistance & the Privatization of War". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.commondreams.org. May 20, 2004.

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• We also share a profound desire for a lasting peace in the Middle East. My Administration is dedicated to achieving this goal, one which will guarantee Israel security. At the same time, we will do our utmost to defend and protect Israel, for unless Israel is strong and secure, then peace will always be beyond our grasp. We were with Israel at the beginning, 41 years ago. We are with Israel today. And we will be with Israel in the future. No one should doubt this basic committment.

  George H. W. Bush

  Strong, Israel, Years

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• In a justly organized community, however, government exists to secure the right to life and the other human rights that follow from that primary right.

  Paul Ryan

  Rights, Government, Community

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• The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn't the family.

  Morrie Schwartz

  People, Foundation, May

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• When I think of a bombshell, I immediately think of Bridget Bardot. She's a woman who is so secure and just oozes sexy. Whether you are super feminine or more into that boyish style, you just own your look.

  Candice Swanepoel

  Sexy, Thinking, Style

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• Studying goes deeper than mere reading. There are surface nuggets to be gathered but the best of the gold is underneath, and it takes time and labor to secure it.

  Mary McLeod Bethune

  Reading, Gold, Nuggets

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• You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out. I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices to-day than any of you to secure peace.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Country, War, Sacrifice

  Letter to Mayor Calhoun of Atlanta, Ga., and others, 12 Sept. 1864 See Napoleon 11; William Tecumseh Sherman 3

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• The Presidents plan to privatize Social Security would actually take away guaranteed benefits and put the promise of a secure retirement in jeopardy.

  Patty Murray

  Retirement, Promise, President

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• Where there is no justice there can be no secure peace.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Justice

  Aung San Suu Kyi (1995). “Freedom from Fear: And Other Writings”, p.185, Penguin UK

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• Today in America, unions have a secure place in our industrial life. Only a handful of reactionaries harbor the ugly thought of breaking unions and depriving working men and women of the right to join the union of their choice. I have no use for those - regardless of their political party - who hold some vain and foolish dream of spinning the clock back to days when organized labor was huddled, almost as a hapless mass. Only a fool would try to deprive working men and women of the right to join the union of their choice.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Dream, Party, Men

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• I went to America in the winter of 1872-73, authorised to secure, if I could, the passage of a bill demonetising silver. It was in the interest of those I represented - the governors of the Bank of England - to have it done. By 1873, gold coins were the only form of coin money.

  Ernest Seyd

  Money, Winter, America

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• No matter how wild reality was obviously often being, it was an absolutely secure place, as a tone and intelligence, and a thing happening.

  Robert Creeley

  Reality, Matter, Tone

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• Nothing is so much needed as a secure family life for a people seeking to rise out of poverty and backwardness.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Family, People, Poverty

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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• When struck on one cheek to turn the other, is really joining a conspiracy to secure the triumph of brutality. To agree not to resist evil is to become an accomplice of all injustice.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Life, Evil, Triumph

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4190, Library of Alexandria

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• To be free one needs constant and unrelenting vigilance over one's weaknesses. A vigilance which requires a moral energy most of us are incapable of manufacturing. We relax back into the moulds of habit. They are secure, they bind us and keep us contained at the expense of freedom. To break the moulds, to be heedless of the seductions of security is an impossible struggle, but one of the few that count. To be free is to learn, to test yourself constantly, to gamble.

  Robyn Davidson

  Inspirational, Freedom, Struggle

  Robyn Davidson (2012). “Tracks”, p.220, A&C Black

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• Tension means hurry, fear, doubt. Tension means a constant effort to protect, to be secure, to be safe. Tension means preparing for the tomorrow now, or for the afterlife - afraid tomorrow you will not be able to face the reality, so be prepared. Tension means the past that you have not lived really but only somehow bypassed; it hangs, it is a hangover, it surrounds you.

  Rajneesh

  Hangover, Mean, Past

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