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«The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.»
Author: Jane Addams
(Founder, Social worker)
| Keywords:
All of Us, common good, incorporate, incorporated, incorporates, incorporating, precarious, secure, secured, uncertain
«Over-seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up.»
Author: Michael J. Gelb
| Keywords:
bureaucratic, high-performance, lighten, lightened, lightening, lightens, lighten up, mastery, performance, secure, seriousness, warning
«The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.»
Author: Patrick Henry
(Lawyer)
| Keywords:
a people, concealed, liberties, rulers, secure, transaction, transactions
«The fact is that people are good, if only their fundamental wishes are satisfied, their wish for affection and security. Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.»
Author: Abraham Maslow
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Affection,
Humanity,
Wishes
| Keywords:
affection, behavior, fundamental, secure, security
«The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous»
Author: Frederick Douglass
(Abolitionist, Author, Lecturer, Slave)
| Keywords:
secure, The Nation, truthful, virtuous
«There are two modes of establishing our reputation: to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter.»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
| About:
Praise,
Reputation
| Keywords:
abused, abusing, accompanied, accompanying, Establishing, former, invariably, latter, modes, praised, rogues, secure
«The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished - it is no longer secure in its instincts.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
errors, finished, instincts, like this, newspaper, party, party politics, reader, ruin, secure
«Self-respect The secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
as yet, secure, self-respecting, self respect, suspicious
«No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.»
«Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
energize, energized, energizes, energizing, secure, transition, transitions
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