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“An age that needs security guards is, of course, without security. What do we have in the dull old days? Old man janitors in the schools; watchmen in the factories, and the watchman was usually the...”
“Just about everything in this life is treacherous, ready to twist and shape-shift at any second; it seemed to me that the whole world would be a different place if you had someone you were certain ...”
“It's not real until it's secured" -Greg Turnquist, Devnexus 2015”
“We fail to move beyond what is safe, we abandon our dreams in favor of what is sure rather than strive for what is best for us.”
“Security is a false god begin making sacrifices to it and you are lost.”
“The man who looks for security even in the mind is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.”
“Never think you've seen the last of anything.”
“If you want total security go to prison. There you're fed clothed given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking ... is freedom.”
“Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so right in the middle of it we die lose a leg fall in love drop a jar of applesauce.”
“Truly nothing is to be expected but the unexpected.”
“Happiness greatness pride-nothing is secure nothing keeps.”
“There is no security no assurance that because we wrote something good two months ago we will do it again. Actually every time we begin we wonder how we ever did it before.”
“There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.”
“The way to be safe is never to be secure.”
“We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.”
“It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.”
“To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.”
“"Safety first" has been the motto of the human race for half a million years but it has never been the motto of leaders.”
“Our greatest illusion is reliance upon the security and permanence of material possessions. We must search for some other coin.”
“Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament not of income.”
