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• Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security

  John Allen Paulos

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  John Allen Paulos (2007). “A Mathematician Plays The Stock Market”, p.5, Basic Books

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• There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.

  J. Paul Getty

  Business, Work, Men

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• Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.

  Gail Sheehy

  Organization, Meditation, Growth

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• No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.

  Willa Cather

  Women, Self Esteem, Persons

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Essential Willa Cather Collection”, p.57, eBookIt.com

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• Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

  Helen Keller

  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

  Let Us Have Faith (1940)

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• If money is your hope for independence you will never have it

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Money, Greatest Wealth

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  I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Military, Gun, New World Order

  Douglas MacArthur's speech to the Texas Legislature in Austin (June 13, 1951) as quoted in "General MacArthur Speeches and Reports 1908-1964" edited by Edward T. Imparato (p. 175), June 14, 2000.

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• If the militarily most powerful and least threatened states need nuclear weapons for their security, how can one deny such security to countries that are truly insecure? The present nuclear policy is a recipe for proliferation. It is a policy for disaster.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Country, Powerful, Insecure

  Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, I B Tauris & Company Limited

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• The existence of nuclear weapons presents a clear and present danger to life on Earth. Nuclear arms cannot bolster the security of any nation because they represent a threat to the security of the human race. These incredibly destructive weapons are an affront to our common humanity, and the tens of billions of dollars that are dedicated to their development and maintenance should be used instead to alleviate human need and suffering

  Oscar Arias

  Common Humanity, Nuclear Disarmament, Race

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• No treaty, however much it may be to the advantage of all, however tightly it may be worded, can provide absolute security against the risks of deception and evasion. But it can, if it is sufficiently effective in its enforcement and if it is sufficiently in the interests of its signers, offer far more security and far fewer risks than an unabated, uncontrolled, unpredictable arms race.

  John F. Kennedy

  Race, Risk, Deception

  American University Commencement Address, delivered 10 June 1963

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• Extending social and economic development throughout the world and eliminating nuclear weapons from military arsenals are two fundamental prerequisites to replacing the culture of war with a culture of peace, and building true security for all the world's people.

  Douglas Roche

  Military, War, Nuclear Disarmament

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• We demand a non-violent world where human security is the basis of our common global security. People have the right to live in a world where the basic needs of all peoples are addressed. No more military attacks. No more war.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Military, War, People

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• A world government with powers adequate to guarantee security is not a remote ideal for the distant future. It is an urgent necessity if our civilization is to survive.

  Albert Einstein

  World Government, Law, Civilization

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• In the last analysis, human security means a child who did not die, a disease that did not spread, an ethnic tension that did not explode, a dissident who was not silenced, a human spirit that was not crushed.

  Mahbub ul Haq

  Children, Mean, Analysis

  Mahbub ul Haq, Institute of Social Sciences (New Delhi, India) (2001). “Human development in South Asia: concepts, concerns, agenda for action”

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• There can be no lasting peace, no security, nor can we as human beings begin to touch our full potential, as long as hunger overwhelms the human spirit around this planet.

  Dennis Weaver

  Long, Full Potential, Spirit

  Dennis Weaver (2001). “All the World's a Stage”, Hampton Roads Publishing Company Incorporated

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• Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, they are incidental to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Country, Power, Tolerance

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• You say that freedom of utterance is not for time of stress, and I reply with the sad truth that only in time of stress is freedom of utterance in danger? Only when free utterance is suppressed is it needed, and when it is needed it is most vital to justice.

  William Allen White

  Truth, Stress, Justice

  William Allen White (1937). “Forty Years on Main Street”

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• We have to yet really seriously debate the constitutional issues and whether or not we're willing to give up more freedom in order to have more security.

  William Cohen

  Giving Up, Freedom, Order

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• The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.

  Erich Fromm

  Business, Inner Peace, Insecurity

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• The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved.

  Confucius

  Men, Safety, Chinese

  "The Analects". Book by Confucius,

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• I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Inspiring, Girl, Strong Women

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• While the form of treachery varies slightly from case to case, liberals always manage to take the position that most undermines American security.

  Ann Coulter

  Form, Cases, Treachery

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  I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

  Clint Eastwood

  Men, Prejudice, Facts

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• I think computer viruses should count as life ... I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.

  Stephen Hawking

  Science, Technology, Thinking

  Speech at Macworld Expo in Boston, as quoted in "The Daily News", August 4, 1994.

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• Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Love, Money, Men

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1972). “The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes”

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