Quotes with safe-keeping

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  • Jean Baudrillard I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • George Bernard Shaw I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • James Baldwin I think white gay people feel cheated because they were born, in principle, in a society in which they were supposed to be safe. The anomaly of their sexuality puts them in danger, unexpectedly.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Toni Morrison I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Enid Bagnold If a dog doesn't put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your wishes. It even shares your humor. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesn't happen you are only keeping an animal.
    Enid Bagnold
    British writer, playwright (1889 - 1981)
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  • Albert Einstein If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Albert Einstein If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
    Tegen Samuel J. Woolf, Berlijn, zomer 1929
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Arthur Machen If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to conjecture that, in sheer forgetfulness, he wore a red tie, or brown boots with evening dress.
    Arthur Machen
    Welsh author and mystic (1863 - 1947)
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  • Bill Maris If I'm an entrepreneur, and I have a term sheet from Sequoia and Kleiner, that's the safe choice. Google Ventures is the brave choice.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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  • Alice Duer Miller If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.
    Alice Duer Miller
    American writer (1874 - 1942)
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  • John F. Kennedy If we cannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Woody Allen If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Josh Billings If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Brit Marling If you play it safe every time, then you're missing the best part of acting. You haven't learned anything about your humanity.
    Brit Marling
    American actress and screenwriter (1982 - )
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  • Barack Obama If you're looking for the safe choice, you shouldn't be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • George Orwell Ignorance and prejudice are the ballast of our ship of state - however, ships without ballast are not seaworthy and cannot sail in the tempests, nor reach a safe harbor.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Lydia Sigourney In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry of idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.
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  • Bob Ney In recent years personal injury attorneys and trial lawyers have attacked the food industry with numerous lawsuits alleging that these businesses should pay monetary damages to those who, of their own accord, consume too much of a legal, safe product.
    Bob Ney
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Alan Greenspan In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.
    Alan Greenspan
    American economist (1926 - )
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  • Billy Tauzin Invite the best and brightest to compete for a grand prize to come up with designs, including new zoning, building codes and so forth, for New Orleans that could make it safe from water, and let the state and city pick the plan that works best for Louisiana.
    Billy Tauzin
    American lobbyist and politician (1943 - )
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