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Why does a steward steal? He steals because he's not sure he'll always remain with his master and wa...

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Truly nothing is to be expected but the unexpected.

Confront all the angry thoughts, feelings, the jealousies and condemnations, to find their cause, se...

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America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human deve...

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What you're looking for is already inside you. You've heard this before, but the holy thing inside y...

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Anne LamottPlan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to...

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Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.

For me, peace should provide security to the Jewish people.

This is a wonderful way to celebrate an 80th birthday... I wanted to be 65 again, but they wouldn't ...

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Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full po...

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Terrorism is a significant threat to peace and security, prosperity and people.

Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace ...

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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

Both men and women remain in dysfunctional, loveless relationships when it is materially opportune.

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Bell hooksAll About Love: New Visions

The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon b...

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Bell hooksAll About Love: New Visions

The way to be safe is never to be secure.

People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither lib...

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They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty n...

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Benjamin FranklinMemoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin

Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.

Of course the Republicans have long wanted to privatize Social Security and destroy it. But Social S...

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The affection of parents makes infants feel safe in this dangerous world, and gives them boldness in...

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Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.

Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.

Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.

Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.

Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.

Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.

Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.

Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.

Protection and security are only valuable if they do not cramp life excessively.

God's love is based on nothing, and the fact that it is based on nothing makes us secure. Were it ba...

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Brennan ManningThe Relentless Tenderness of Jesus

It's important to be informed about issues like usability, reliability, security, privacy, and some ...

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I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer i...

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Terrorism isn't a crime against people or property. It's a crime against our minds, using the death ...

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If you ask amateurs to act as front-line security personnel, you shouldn't be surprised when you get...

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If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and...

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To move forward, what's required is a unified space agenda based on exploration, science, developmen...

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He's not safe, but he's good (referring to Aslan, the Lion, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)

You all know," said the Guide, "that security is mortals' greatest enemy.

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C. S. LewisThe Pilgrim's Regress

It is terrible to be an unprotected being.

It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

In the era of security clearances, to be an Irish Catholic became prima facie evidence of loyalty. H...

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The Senator from Massachusetts has given us ample grounds to doubt the judgment and the attitude he ...

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

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If you want total security go to prison. There you're fed clothed given medical care and so on. T...

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If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. T...

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Ultimately, if people lose their willingness to recognize that there are times in our history when l...

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.

Shooting Willoughby carrying Marianne up the path. ... Male strength -- the desire to be cradled aga...

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Emma ThompsonThe Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film

Each new step into his new human existence is frightening. It always means to give up a secure state...

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A neat little apartment with a neat little bourgeois life. A neat little security on the edge of the...

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Erich Maria RemarqueArch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country

Never think you've seen the last of anything.

Happiness greatness pride-nothing is secure nothing keeps.

She reminded him that the weak will never enter the kingdom of love, which is a harsh and ungenerous...

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The sense of security more frequently springs from habit than from conviction, and for this reason i...

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It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires i...

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Women's work, married or unmarried, is menial and low paid. Women's right to possess property is cur...

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You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues ...

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If it were the Clinton people, they'd be sitting around figuring out how to pull themselves out. Ins...

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Self-respect--the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.

In times of long established peace, when the tradition of generations has established the illusion o...

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Security and safety were the reward of dullness.

Security... it's simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that you're w...

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God Himself is not secure having given man dominion over His works.

Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature. ... Avoiding danger is no safer in the...

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In our production-oriented society, being busy, having an occupation, has become one of the main way...

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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now ...

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If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can...

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If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man ca...

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The man who looks for security even in the mind is like a man who would chop off his limbs in orde...

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I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet se...

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Security ... what does this word mean in relation to life as we know it today? For the most part, it...

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I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was...

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

Failure gave me an inner security that I had never attained by passing examinations.

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J. K. RowlingVery Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination

There is, however, hope for any person who wants to remain an individual. He can assert himself and ...

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To accomplish its mission, the FBI relies heavily upon its law enforcement and intelligence partners...

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The private sector is the key player in cyber security. Private sector companies are the primary vic...

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Strangely enough, the linking of computers has taken place democratically, even anarchically. Its ru...

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Sitting on the porch alone, listening to them fixing supper, he felt again the indignation he had fe...

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The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and da...

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The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and i...

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Great countries need to secure their border for national security purposes, for economic purposes an...

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Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

Because we want to be inwardly secure, we are constantly seeking methods and means for this security...

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This was something she would keep hidden within herself, maybe in place of the knot of pain and ange...

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Wouldn’t be very fair to the rest of them, would it?” Harper asked. “They’re not bad people, most of...

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Wouldn’t be very fair to the rest of them, would it?” Harper asked. “They’re not bad people, most of...

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I also urge the Obama administration - both on its own and in cooperation with other responsible gov...

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Novelty and Security: the security of novelty, the novelty of security. Always the full thing, the w...

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Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.

I'm not in favor of the death penalty. But I'm in favor of locking these people away in maximum secu...

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And now submarines are armed with mass murder, our silly, only way of deterring mass murder.

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John SteinbeckTravels with Charley: In Search of America

I'd like to repeat the advice that I gave you before, in that I think you really should make a radic...

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make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never...

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If you want your children to grow up to be healthy and independent, you should hold them, hug them, ...

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Jonathan HaidtThe Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

And suddenly I rejoiced in the great security of the sea as compared with the unrest of the land, in...

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Joseph ConradThe Secret Sharer and Other Great Stories

Security depends not so much upon how much you have as upon how much you can do without.