Confucius Quotes, Men Quotes, Safety Quotes

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.

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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.

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I am distinctly opposed to visibly arrogant and arbitrary extremes of government--but this is simply because I wish the safety of an artistic and intellectual civilisation to be secure, not because I have any sympathy with the coarse-grained herd who would menace the civilisation if not placated by sops.

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Even the most eminent persons are subject to the laws of gravity.

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REVOLUTION, n. A bursting of the boilers which usually takes place when the safety valve of public discussion is closed.

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too much safety is abhorrent to the nature of a human being.

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…words have been all my life, all my life--this need is like the Spider's need who carries before her a huge Burden of Silk which she must spin out--the silk is her life, her home, her safety--her food and drink too--and if it is attacked or pulled down, why, what can she do but make more, spin afresh, design anew….

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If you understood a business perfectly and the future of the business, you need very little in the way of a margin of safety.

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Safety lies in the middle course. [Lat., Medio tutissimus ibis.]

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Someday our piecing together of knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas we shall either go mad or flee into the safety of a new dark age.

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I'm living at a very intense discomfort level because my career has been predicated on safety.

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Obscurity brings safety.

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The cost of solving the Comet mystery must be reckoned neither in money nor in manpower.

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Gentleness brings victory to him who attacks, and safety to him who defends. Those whom Heaven would save, it fences round with gentleness.

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The only assurance of our nation's safety is to lay our foundation in morality and religion.

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Let others seek safety. Nothing is safer than misfortune, Where there's no fear of greater ill to come.

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It is often in the audacity, in the steadfastness, of the general that the safety and the conservation of his men is found.

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If I was wrong in yielding to persuasion once, remember that it was to persuasion exerted on the side of safety, not of risk. When I yielded, I thought it was to duty; but no duty could be called in aid here. In marrying a man indifferent to me, all risk would have been incurred and all duty violated.

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There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right.

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I am distinctly opposed to visibly arrogant and arbitrary extremes of government--but this is simply because I wish the safety of an artistic and intellectual civilisation to be secure, not because I have any sympathy with the coarse-grained herd who would menace the civilisation if not placated by sops.

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