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"Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"safeguard the health both of body and soul." »Cleobulus
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"Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army." »Edward Everett Hale
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"There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies against despots -- suspicion." »Demosthenes
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"No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating." »Harold Rosenberg
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"Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of the citizens to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be carefully used and that definite safety rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of the citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government and one more safeguard against a tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible." »Hubert Humphrey
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"Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit. A well-organized society should assure to such workers the efficient means of accomplishing their task, in a life freed from material care and freely consecrated to research." »Marie Curie
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"One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish a dictatorship." »George Orwell, 1984
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"Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power." »George Orwell, 1984 Book 3, Chapter 3
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