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“It is very often asserted that fear is destructive. Yet this is not entirely true; when fear is felt about things that truly threaten security, it is protective. It is very fortunate that humans have an almost unlimited capacity for learning fears; otherwise we would have been eliminated long ago.”

Humans Long Has Beens Felt Fear Security Capacity Fortunate Destructive Long Ago Unlimited Protective

Author:Smiley Blanton

“The British security industry has the capacity to be a world leader and it should be our shared objective to achieve this.”

World Should Leader Achieve Security Industry Capacity British Objectives World Leader

Author:Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

“Globalization makes our economy, our health, and our security all captive to events on the other side of the world. And no other nation on earth has a greater capacity to shape that global system, or to build consensus around a new set of international rules that expand the zones of freedom, personal safety, and economic well-being. Like it or not, if we want to make America more secure, we are going to have to help make the world more secure.”

Source: The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

“If a man surrenders all power of self-determination in regard to the profits, management or ownership of the place where he works, he not only loses that special prerogative which marks him off from a cow in a pasture, but what is worse, he loses all capacity for determining any work. This is the beginning of a slavery which sometimes goes by the name of security.”

“Tracing the progress of mankind in the ascending path of civilization, and moral and intellectual culture, our fathers found that the divine ordinance of government, in every stage of the ascent, was adjustable on principles of common reason to the actual condition of a people, and always had for its objects, in the benevolent councils of the divine wisdom, the happiness, the expansion, the security, the elevation of society, and the redemption of man. They sought in vain for any title of authority of man over man, except of superior capacity and higher morality.”

“If Hamas continues to threaten the security of the state of Israel, I believe Israel has the ability and the capacity to control the borders and cut off the weapons supply.”

Ifs Believe States I Believe Ability Cutting Security Weapons Capacity Israel Borders Hamas

Author:Mosab Hassan Yousef

“The most profound security threat we face today is global warming....climate change has the capacity to change the way all of us live.”

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Author:William J. Clinton

“I feel that the only true security I have is my capacity, however limited, to love.”

Feels Security Capacity

Book:Pauses: Reflections on Science, Spirituality, and the Fine Art of Living

Source: Pauses: Reflections on Science, Spirituality, and the Fine Art of Living

“We are continuously looking at the question of increasing the capacity of Home Affairs and that is why Home Affairs introduced mobile units, to be able to reach people. The matter of the establishment of the Social Security Agency was to deal with the matter of the more efficient distribution of these grants, the reductions in the levels of corruption and greater sensitivity. You are dealing with vulnerable people, like the elderly, who you needed to find a way of addressing, so that people don't have to be waiting in the sun in the queue, and so on.”

“In industry, we are now concentrating our best effort in trying to make plants work at a maximum capacity, trying to replace the equipment which is in bad conditions due to lack of spare parts from the U.S.., that we cannot get from the U.S.; to extend our industry later on the basis of our primary resources. And to lessen our dependence on external markets and dedicate our efforts in 1965 to the aspect of security and hygiene of work, to make our plants better for the worker: that the worker may feel really a man there.”