#safety

These are they whose youth was violently severed by war and death; a word on the telephone, a scribbled line on paper, and their future ceased. They have built up their lives again, but their safety is not absolute, their fortress not impregnable. ↗

— Winifred Holtby

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We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

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