“Eighty-five percent cannot read when they enter the security forces of Afghanistan. Why? Because the Taliban withheld education during the period of time in which these men and women would have learned to read.” MenForceFiveSecurityPeriodsPercentMen And WomenAfghanistanEightyTalibanSecurity Forces Author:James G. Stavridis
“We have first lady Michelle Obama on the show tonight. As you'd expect, security's been pretty tight. On my way in I got five pat-downs, and that was just from Joe Biden.” WayFirstsShowsFiveSecurityMy WayTonightFirst LadyBiden Author:Jimmy Fallon
“Organisation of social insurance should be treated as one part only of a comprehensive policy of social progress. Social insurance fully developed may provide income security; it is an attack upon Want. But Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction and in some ways the easiest to attack. The others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor and Idleness.” WayWantShouldMaySocialFiveProgressSecurityPolicyIgnoranceDiseaseIncomeTreatedGiantsIdlenessComprehensiveOrganisationReconstructionSocial ProgressSqualor Author:William Beveridge
“The unfair composition of the Security Council is largely acknowledged. The principal defects are the anachronistic privileges of the five permanent members of the Council and the Council's insufficient representativeness.” FiveSecurityMembersPrivilegePermanentPrincipalCompositionUnfairDefectsCouncilInsufficientSecurity Council Author:Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
“Normally an infant learns to use his mother as a "beacon of orientation" during the first five months of life. The mother's presence is like a fixed light that gives the child the security to move out safely to explore the world and then return safely to harbor.” WorldGivingFirstsChildrenUseLightMovingMotherFiveSecurityMonthsReturnFixedInfantHarborsOrientationBeacons Book:Oneness and separateness: from infant to individual Source: Oneness and separateness: from infant to individual
“The Jewish usurers are fast-rooted even in the smallest villages, and if they lend five gulden they require a security of six times as much. They charge interest, upon interest, and upon this again interest, so that the poor man loses everything that he owns.” IfsMenInterestLosesPoorFiveSecuritySixVillageRootedSmallestPoor Man Author:Desiderius Erasmus
“Most middle-class people I know don't really live like me. Middle-class people worry a lot about money. They worry a lot about job security, and they do a lot of nine-to-five stuff.” PeopleKnowsJobsStuffClassWorryFiveMiddleSecurityNineLike MeMiddle Class Author:Irvine Welsh
“How long do you want to wait until you start enjoying life? When you're sixty-five you get social security.” WantLongSocialWaitingEnjoyFiveSecuritySixtyEnjoy LifeSocial Security Book:The comedy of Neil Simon Source: The comedy of Neil Simon
“The day I'm in England performing, English security let a man in a Batman suit climb Buckingham Palace. I felt so much safer... Batman was on the wall of Buckingham Palace for five hours. Wouldn't happen in America - three minutes: dead Batman.” MenHappensAmericaThreeFeltHoursFiveMinutesSecurityWallEnglandSuitsPerformingClimbsPalacesBuckingham Palace Author:Christopher Titus
“I've worked over four dozen nine-to-five jobs before taking the chance to chase my dream of wanting to become an actor and filmmaker. Growing up in Brooklyn and Harlem, working at jobs like the bus company were great. I had benefits, a great salary, and security. But it wasn't my dream.” DreamJobsActorsChanceCompanyGrowing UpFiveFourGrowingSecurityBenefitsNineFilmmakerBusDozenSalaryBrooklynHarlem Author:Malcolm Goodwin
“If you have to pay about forty to forty-three percent of your income for housing, you also have to pay fifteen percent of your paycheck for the FICA for Social Security wage withholding. You have to pay medical care, you have to pay the banks for your credit card debt, student loans. Then you only have about twenty-five or thirty-five percent, maybe one-third of your salary to buy goods and services. That's all.” IfsCareThreeSocialPayFiveSecurityStudentsPercentThirdsTwentiesCreditDebtMedicalIncomeCardsThirtyFortyGoodsFifteenSocial SecurityHousingLoanSalaryCredit CardTwenty FivePaychecksMedical CareGoods And ServicesWithholdingStudent LoanCredit Card Debt Author:Michael Hudson
“Somewhat by historical happenstance the five permanent members of the UN Security Council - United States, Britain, France, Russia, and China - also were the original five countries to have nuclear weapons.” CountryStatesUnitedUnited StatesFiveSecurityMembersWeaponsOriginalsHistoricalChinaNuclearRussiaFrancePermanentBritainNuclear WeaponsCouncilSecurity CouncilHappenstance Author:John Burroughs