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securing
«If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.»
Author: Swami Vivekananda
(Spiritual leader)
| About:
Positive thinking
| Keywords:
achievement, brood, brooded, broods, demise, disaster, fraught, get it, hasten, hastened, hastening, hastens, positively, richer, secure, securing, think about, with confidence
«He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression;for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| Keywords:
establishes, guard, liberty, oppression, precedent, secure, securing, violates, violating
«Some punishment seems preparing for a people who are ungratefully abusing the best constitution and the best King any nation was ever blessed with, intent on nothing but luxury, licentiousness, power, places, pensions, and plunder; while the ministry, divided in their counsels, with little regard for each other, worried by perpetual oppositions, in continual apprehension of changes, intent on securing popularity in case they should lose favor, have for some years past had little time or inclination to attend to our small affairs, whose remoteness makes them appear even smaller.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
abusing, attend, blessed with, continual, counsels, inclination, intent, intent on, in case, licentiousness, ministries, ministry, Ministry of, oppositions, pension, pensions, plunder, plundered, plundering, plunders, popularity, preparing, remoteness, securing, smaller, The Ministry, ungratefully, worried
«In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for some time mutinous and full of faction, until some popular general, who understands the art of conciliating the soldiery, and who possesses the true spirit of command, shall draw the eyes of all men upon himself. Armies will obey him on his personal account. There is no other way of securing military obedience in this state of things.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| Keywords:
army officer, conciliate, conciliating, faction, factions, fluctuation, fluctuations, military officer, mutinous, officers, securing, soldiery
«A strong and secure man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds alike) just as he digests his meat, even when he has some bits to swallow.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
alike, bits, deeds, digesting, digests, experiences, just as, meat, meats, secure, securing, swallow, swallow up
«Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.»
«He alone is great and happy who requires neither to command nor to obey in order to secure his being of some importance in this world»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
alone, as required, command, happy, importance, in order, in this, In this World, neither, Nor, obey, order, requires, secure, securing
«Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.»
«There is no other way for securing yourself against flatteries except that men understand that they do not offend you by telling you the truth; but when everybody can tell you the truth, you fail to get respect»
«Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a ''taxing-machine';' to the contented, a ''machine for securing property'.' Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| Keywords:
active, appetite, balancing, constable, constables, contented, discontented, duties, emphatically, guided, keen, machine, No Quarter, parish, Parties, party man, quarter, securing, self government, self interest, taxing
