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Security

«It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.»
Author: Harold W. Dodds | About: Security | Keywords: adage, insecurity, spur
«Nerves provide me with energy... It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that I get worried.»
Author: Mike Nichols | About: Security
«In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn»
Author: Nathaniel Branden | About: Knowledge, Learning, Security | Keywords: doubling
«Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risks.»
Author: Shirley Hufsteddler | About: Security
«It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.»
Author: Epicurus | About: Security | Keywords: city wall, ills
«He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft»
«Learned institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.»
«Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older»
«Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.»
«Security is the chief enemy of mortals.»

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