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“The best safety lies in fear.”
William Shakespeare
“I have no color prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.”
Mark Twain
“Where there is no leadership the people fall, but in an abundance of counselors there is safety. (Proverbs 11:14)”
Bible
“Safety is something that happens between your ears, not something you hold in your hands.”
Jeff Cooper
“Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of”
Douglas Adams
“In skating over thin ice our safety is our speed”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“They who can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
Benjamin Franklin
“I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Nobel prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety”
“It is a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract”
Alan Shepherd
