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Ice T Rapper, Actor
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"Anybody who has anybody in the armed forces, I don't care how well-trained they are, there's nothing safe about it."

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Ilchi Lee Author
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"The person with a safe center doesn't fear change. We can choose change without fear before a challenge only when we are strongly centered."

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Ovid Poet
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"It is not safe to despise what Love commands. He reigns supreme, and rules the mighty gods."

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Neil Gaiman Author
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"This is not a place, after all. It is BETWEEN places. This is NOWHERE. A brief thought: I could stay here, abandon my quest, hang forever in the void, safe and cold and alone."

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Nhat Hanh Zen Master, Author
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"We all need a place that is safe and wholesome enough for us to return for refuge. In Buddhism, that refuge is mindfulness."

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George Bernard Shaw Playwright, Critic
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"If I refuse to allow my leg to be amputated, its mortification and my death may prove that I was wrong; but if I let the leg go, nobody can ever prove that it would not have mortified had I been obstinate. Operation is therefore the safe side for the surgeon as well as the lucrative side."

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Gilbert K. Chesterton Writer, Journalist
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"Busy editors cannot be expected to put on their posters, "Mr. Wilkinson Still Safe," or "Mr. Jones, of Worthing, Not Dead Yet." They cannot announce the happiness of mankind at all. They cannot describe all the forks that are not stolen, or all the marriages that are not judiciously dissolved. Hence the complex picture they give of life is of necessity fallacious; they can only represent what is unusual."

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Griffin Jay Musician
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"Aw, it's just like a woman. When the shootin's all over and everything's safe, they pass out."

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