“ A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office. ”
- Hubert H. Humphrey- Copy
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“ Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
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“ Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future. ”
- Susan Sontag- Copy
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“ No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident. ”
- James Bryce- Copy
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“ Why should a man's mind have been thrown into such close, sad, sensational, inexplicable relations with such a precarious object as his body? ”
- Thomas Hardy- Copy
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“ The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life. ”
- Jane Addams- Copy
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“ All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem. ”
- Martin Luther King Jr.- Copy
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“ Monty Python's usual schoolboy humour is here let loose on a period of history appropriately familiar to every schoolboy in the West, and a faith which could be shaken by such good-humoured ribaldry would be a very precarious faith indeed. ”
- The British Board Of Film Censors- Copy
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