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It's the safety valve of middle life, and the solace of age. -- Mary Roberts Rinehart
Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow. -- Monica Edwards
The problem is, we're moving to software-as-service, which can be yanked or transformed at any moment. The ability of your PC to run independent code is an important safety valve. -- Jonathan Zittrain
I don't believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn't, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode. -- Hedy Lamarr
If we know there is enough money in there for nine or ten months, we won't worry too much. They can come back and get more-not all they want, but a large piece of it. So you always have the supplemental as a safety valve. -- John William McCormack
We spend all this energy keeping our lives normal and safe and predictable, and the result is that our approved cultural safety valve is the movies. So in films, anyway, the hero is obliged to represent the continuance of social values and institutions, and his permission to act is much more seriously limited than the villain's. -- Peter Coyote
While Free Choice Vouchers didn't fulfill my vision of a health care system in which every American would be empowered to hire and fire their insurance company, they were a foothold for choice and competition and a safety valve for Americans whose employers are already forcing them to bear more and more of their family's health insurance costs. -- Ron Wyden
The dream acts as a safety-valve for the over-burdened brain. -- Sigmund Freud
Giving is the safety valve that releases the excess pressure of wealth. -- Randy Alcorn
Bad temper is its own safety valve. He who can bark does not bite. -- Agatha Christie
Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety-valve device for dealing with happiness overflow. -- Monica Edwards
When pressure builds up, don't panic. Pray! Prayer is a tremendous stress reliever. It can be your safety valve. -- Rick Warren
Freedom of the press is to the machinery of the state what the safety valve is to the steam engine. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
REVOLUTION, n. A bursting of the boilers which usually takes place when the safety valve of public discussion is closed. -- Ambrose Bierce
The possibility of killing one's self is a safety valve. Having it, man has no right to say life is unbearable. -- Leo Tolstoy
War is a sociological safety valve that cleverly diverts popular hatred for the ruling classes into a happy occasion to mutilate or kill foreign enemies. -- Ernest Becker
As strenuous challenge or contemplative retreat, the parks and other units of the national lands offer welcome respite from the world, a safety valve for body and spirit. -- T. H. Watkins

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