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“I like writing teen characters because they’re vulnerable to the newness of things; and vulnerability makes emotional responses raw, vital and unguarded. Lacking a context of consequences, choices are riskier and stakes higher. Life is lived without a safety net. As an author and reader, I find that a mighty charge to drama.”

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Author:Allan Stratton

“Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim for the stars. Keep grinning. Be bloody-minded. Argue with the world. And never forget that writing is as close as we get to keeping a hold on the thousand and one things--childhood, certainties, cities, doubts, dreams, instants, phrases, parents, loves--that go on slipping , like sand, through our fingers.”

Source: Conversations with Salman Rushdie

“Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families.”

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Author:Barbara Mikulski

“When we stand up for America, we stand up for what America stands for, which is a safety net for our seniors and really helping our families be able to help themselves”

Helping Able America Safety Our Family Senior Safety Net Workplace Safety

Author:Barbara Mikulski

“Unlike national markets, which tend to be supported by domestic regulatory and political institutions, global markets are only 'weakly embedded'. There is no global lender of last resort, no global safety net, and of course, no global democracy. In other words, global markets suffer from weak governance, and are therefore prone to instability, inefficiency, and weak popular legitimacy.”

Lasts Political Suffering Courses Democracy Weak Safety Institutions Resorts Governance Embedded Instability Legitimacy Safety Net Inefficiency Lenders Political Institutions

Book:The Globalization Paradox: Why Global Markets, States, and Democracy Can't Coexist

Source: The Globalization Paradox: Why Global Markets, States, and Democracy Can't Coexist

“All of the sports have a safety net, but boxing is the only sport that has none. So when the fighter is through, he is through. While he was fighting his management was very excited for him, but now that he is done, that management team is moving on.”

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Author:Gerry Cooney

“Coming back to the topic of computer security, the TCP Wrapper is an example of such a safety net. I wrote it when my systems were under attack by someone who appeared to walk through walls.”

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Author:Wietse Venema

“In a previous life I wrote the software that controlled my physics experiments. That software had to deal with all kinds of possible failures in equipment. That is probably where I learned to rely on multiple safety nets inside and around my systems.”

Kind Deals Safety Physics Experiments All Kinds Rely Controlled Software Multiple Equipment Safety Net Previous Life

Author:Wietse Venema

“Medicaid is a vital safety net for New York's poor and vulnerable, young and old alike.”

Young Poor New York Safety Vulnerable Safety Net Young And Old Medicaid Poor And Vulnerable

Author:James T. Walsh

“Eighty percent of the people in the world have no food safety net. When disaster strikes — the economy gets blown, people lose a job, floods, war, conflict, bad governance, all of those things — there is nothing to fall back on.”

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Author:Josette Sheeran

“It turns out I had this huge geeky safety net out there that I didn’t know about this whole time, made up of people who have been reading my comic for nine years but never contacted me.”

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Author:Rich Burlew

“We shouldn't turn the safety net into a hammock. It should actually be a safety net.”

Should Turns Poor Safety Hateful Safety Net Hammocks

Author:Steve King

“God will never let you sink under your circumstances. He always provides a safety net and His love always encircles.”

Circumstances Safety Gods Will His Love Safety Net Love Always

Author:Barbara Johnson

“The issues that matter to me are the social safety nets for people, health care, middle-class concerns. We need to take care of the middle class and the poor in our country.”

People Needs Country Matter Care Social Poor Class Issues Middle Concern Safety Take Care Our Country Health Care Middle Class Safety Net Haves And Have Nots

Author:Tim McGraw

“But my lazy lack of faith, my in-vogue atheism, has taken away the safety net hanging beneath our children's lives.”

Children Taken Atheism Our Children Safety Atheist Lazy Vogue Safety Net Lack Of Faith

Book:Afterwards

Source: Afterwards

“I am indebted to the British welfare state; the very one that Mr Cameron would like to replace with charity handouts. When my life hit rock bottom, that safety net, threadbare though it had become under John Major's Government, was there to break the fall. I cannot help feeling, therefore, that it would have been contemptible to scarper for the West Indies at the first sniff of a seven-figure royalty cheque. This, if you like, is my notion of patriotism.”

“For people who have for been putting their hard-earned money into the system for years, the president's idea would replace their safety net with a risky gamble with no assurance of a stable return of investment.”

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Author:Grace Napolitano

“Because of my own experience with market fluctuation, I recognize the great risks one takes on investments. This converts the Social Security safety net into a risky proposition many cannot afford to take.”

Social My Own Risk Security Safety Investment Propositions Social Security Converting Safety Net Great Risk Fluctuation

Author:Grace Napolitano

“Effort and pain may not be avoided. Physical and psychological breakdowns occur. The support of a like-minded group, dedicated to The Art of Suffering, provides a safety net. An individual will push harder and risk more in the company of trustworthy peers.”

May Art Pain Suffering Individual Effort Company Support Risk Groups Harder Safety Psychological Dedicated Peers Avoided Breakdown Trustworthy Safety Net

Author:Mark Twight

“We will not cut one penny from the safety net until we've cut every penny from corporate welfare.”

Cutting Safety Corporate Welfare Pennies Safety Net

Author:Rand Paul

“A safety net for the poor indeed requires some level of income redistribution.”

Poor Levels Safety Income Safety Net Income Redistribution

Author:Ari Fleischer

“I was a wild kid. I was left to climb trees. And you know those railways logs, they piled them up, six feet apart, and I'd jump from one to the other. Without a safety net! I was an incredible tomboy.”

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Author:Shirley Bassey

“I know what my comfort zones are. But without a back-up, I will never step out of my comfort zone. I don't go bungee jumping; I won't jump from the third floor without a safety net. I don't do such things. That's not my personality type.”

Knows Steps Type Personality Comfort Thirds Safety Zone Comfort Zone Jumping Safety Net Personality Types Bungee Jumping Bungee

Author:Kajol

“As long as I manage investments properly and don't spend recklessly, Tumblr has given my family a strong safety net and given me the freedom to work on whatever I want. And that's exactly what I plan to do.”

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Author:Marco Arment

“You know, there are people making a lot of money in this country who can actually afford their own health care. We are in a situation where we got a safety net in place in this country for people who frankly don't need one. We got to focus on making sure we got a safety net for those who actually need it.”

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Author:Eric Cantor

“It's often difficult to slough off all that we've acquired, all the comforts and safety nets modern life provides for us, and realize that in those days, people were living very much on the edge - life was incredibly hard!”

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Author:Derek Jacobi

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