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"The moral difference between a soldier and a civilian is that the soldier accepts personal responsibility for the safety of the body politic of which he is a member. The civilian does not."
"Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety."
"An inventor's endeavor is essentially lifesaving. Whether he harnesses forces, improves devices, or provides new comforts and conveniences, he is adding to the safety of our existence. He is also better qualified than the average individual to protect himself in peril, for he is observant and resourceful."
"When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life. It means fear is no longer a dominant factor in what you do and no longer prevents you from taking action to initiate change. The Roman philosopher Tacitus rightly observed that 'the desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.' If uncertainty is unacceptable to you, it turns into fear. If it is perfectly acceptable, it turns into aliveness, alertness and creativity."
"In security analysis the prime stress is laid upon protection against untoward events. We obtain this protection by insisting upon margins of safety, or values well in excess of the price paid."
"The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come."
"To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself."
"There is no safety this side of the grave"
"Unite for the public safety, if you would remain an independent nation."
"Earth will be safe when we feel in us enough safety."
"The wishbone will never replace the backbone."
"Working safely is like breathing - if you don't, you die."
"The dangers of life are infinite, and among them is safety."
"They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to me an irritating pretense, because I felt so sure they could not possibly know the things I knew. Their bearing, which was simply the bearing of commonplace individuals going about their business in the assurance of perfect safety, was offensive to me like the outrageous flauntings of folly in the face of a danger it is unable to comprehend. I had no particular desire to enlighten them, but I had some difficulty in restraining myself from laughing in their faces, so full of stupid importance."
"We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future."
"On the occasion of every accident that befalls you, remember to turn to yourself and inquire what power you have for turning it to use."
"The search for safety takes its clearest form... in the compulsive-obsessive neurosis... to frantically order and stabilize the world so that no unmanageable, unexpected or unfamiliar dangers will ever appear."
"The function of the margin of safety is, in essence, that of rendering unnecessary an accurate estimate of the future."
"The way to be safe is never to be secure."
"In engineering, people have a big margin of safety. But in the financial world, people don't give a damn about safety. They let it balloon and balloon and balloon. It's aided by false accounting."
