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I think it's important that, as a matter of course, the brain and spinal column were removed from this cow, and that would be the material that would cause concern in terms of human health. And therefore we're confident in the safety of the food supply.
Ann Veneman
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I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's active disengagement.
Ken Burns
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We have no more fundamental obligation in government than to ensure the safety of our citizens.


Bob Ehrlich
If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.
William Hazlitt
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The fight for sanity in our gun safety laws is not by any means over. In many ways it's just beginning.
Michael D. Barnes
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In the little town where I live in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, we now have a 'Public Safety Complex' around the corner from what used to be our hokey Andy Griffith-esque fire station.
Rachel Maddow
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I think it's a self-serving effort to put a political agenda above the safety of our law enforcement officers.
Todd Tiahrt
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In Philadelphia, our public safety, poverty reduction, health and economic development all start with education. We can't grow the middle class if we don't give our kids the tools they need to innovate and invent.
Michael Nutter
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Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety.


Arnold Schwarzenegger
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My safety and my family's safety are not guaranteed even now.


Chen Guangcheng
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God offers us counsel not just for our own safety, but for the safety of His other children, whom we should love. There are few comforts so sweet as to know that we have been an instrument in the hands of God in leading someone else to safety. That blessing generally requires the faith to follow counsel when it is hard to do.
Henry B. Eyring
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The idea that public safety, the safety of the innocent, is an absolute which trumps every other consideration, is tacitly abandoned in the way we live.
Tom Stoppard
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People get cranky when you burst their bubble. Over time, advances in astronomy have relentlessly reinforced the utter insignificance of Earth on a celestial scale. Fortunately, political and religious leaders stopped barbecuing astronomers for saying so, turning their spits with human-rights activists instead.
Nathan Myhrvold
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Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.
Billy Joel
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We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.
Willie Nelson
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Safety's just danger, out of place.


Harry Connick, Jr.
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Medicaid is a vital safety net for New York's poor and vulnerable, young and old alike.


James T. Walsh
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We don't want to turn the safety net into a hammock that lulls able-bodied people into complacency and dependence.
Paul Ryan
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Manufacturers must accept responsibility for their customers' safety.


Eric Schneiderman
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Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.


Aeschylus