Dangerous Quotes - Page 13

• [I]t's safer to be fond of dangerous people.

  Edith Wharton

  People

  Edith Wharton (2015). “The House of Mirth”, p.47, Booklassic

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• Fear of success is far more dangerous than fear of failure, because the subconscious mind works to prevent that which it fears. People may fear success because of low self-esteem and feeling of not deserving it; because it will increase what others expect of them. Fear of success shows up as anxiety, indecision, avoidance, procrastination or acceptance of mediocrity.

  Joe Tye

  Self Esteem, Procrastination, Acceptance

  Joe Tye (2000). “Personal Best: 1001 Great Ideas for Achieving Success in Your Career”, Mjf Books

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• A fiddler on the roof. Sounds crazy, no? But here, in our little village of Anatevka, you might say every one of us is a fiddler on the roof trying to scratch out a pleasant, simple tune without breaking his neck. It isn't easy. You may ask 'Why do we stay up there if it's so dangerous?' Well, we stay because Anatevka is our home. And how do we keep our balance? That I can tell you in one word: tradition!

  Sheldon Harnick

  Crazy, Home, Simple

  "Fictional character: Tevye". "Fiddler on the Roof", www.imdb.com. 1971.

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• After generations of living under medical tutelage, which provides us with protection (albeit illusory) against "dangerous drugs", we have failed to cultivate the self-reliance and self-discipline we must possess as competent adults surrounded by the fruits of our pharmacological-technological age.

  Thomas Szasz

  Self, Discipline, Drug

  Thomas Szasz (1996). “Our Right to Drugs: The Case for a Free Market”, p.24, Syracuse University Press

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• America's most dangerous export was, is and always will be our fast-food outlets.

  Anthony Bourdain

  America, Fast Food, Outlets

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• I don't have any problem with Mao or Stalin or the Vietnamese leaders or certainly Fidel locking up people they see as dangerous. Because so often, dissidence has been used by the greater powers to undermine a people's revolution.

  Lynne Stewart

  People, Leader, Revolution

  "Counter-Intelligent". Interview with Susie Day, monthlyreview.org. November 1, 2002.

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• The most dangerous lechers and creeps are not drunks wearing rags on the street, but respectable men wearing hairspray, pinstripes, and wedding rings who lurk in the halls of power.

  Michelle Malkin

  Men, Rags, Hairspray

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• When your victimhood is your empowerment, recovery is the enemy, and working on 'individual change' becomes counterproductive, even dangerous to your identity.

  Tammy Bruce

  Recovery, Empowerment, Enemy

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• Without love, intelligence is dangerous; without intelligence, love is not enough.

  Ashley Montagu

  Love Is, Enough, Without Love

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• How dangerous a master human emotion is!

  Watchman Nee

  Emotion, Masters, Humans

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.70, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• The truth of God may well be likened to a narrow path skirted on either side by a dangerous and destructive precipice: in other words, it lies between two gulfs of error.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Lying, Errors, Two

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• Living is dangerous. The important thing is to know the limits.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Important, Limits, Knows

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• Successful films are very dangerous things.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Successful, Film, Dangerous Things

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• Jesus asked the Father for his disciples' security, sanctity and unity. Jesus still intercedes for us so fervently because we live in a world that is deceived, dangerous, defiled and divided.

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  Jesus, Father, Unity

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• It has come to the time where the most dangerous place to be in America is not the inner city, where gangs threaten innocent lives, or in angry prisons, where only the fit survive, but in the womb of a mother who is being told that if she doesn't really want the baby, an abortion is the solution.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Mother, Baby, Cities

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• I'm basically a libertarian. I don't want to restrict anyone from doing anything unless it's going to harm me. I don't want [to] pass a law stopping someone from smoking. It's just too dangerous. You lose the concept of a free society. Since we are genetically so diverse and our brains are so different, we're going to have different aspirations.

  James D. Watson

  Law, Smoking, Brain

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• Technology is Darwinian. It spreads. It evolves. It adapts. The most dangerous wipes out the less fit.

  Nancy Kress

  Technology, Wipe, Fit

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• Most people think spies are afraid of guns, or KGB guards, or barbed wire, but in point of fact the most dangerous thing they face is paper. Papers carry secrets. Papers carry death warrants. Papers like this one, this folio with its blurry eighteen year old faked missile photographs and estimates of time/survivor curves and pervasive psychosis ratios, can give you nightmares, dragging you awake screaming in the middle of the night.

  Charles Stross

  Thinking, Gun, Night

  "Toast: And Other Rusted Futures". Book by Charles Stross, 2002.

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• This is what makes this team so dangerous: at any time in the game, even after they've gotten hit in the mouth all day, they're still that explosive.

  Michael Irvin

  Team, Games, Mouths

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• The real culprits are those who created a system that makes it dangerous to work and safe to loaf.

  Thomas Sowell

  Real, Safe, Culprit

  Thomas Sowell (1987). “Compassion Versus Guilt and Other Essays”, William Morrow

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• A rousing tale of techno-geek rebellion, as necessary and dangerous as file sharing, free speech, and bottled water on a plane.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Water, Speech, Geek

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• The point is that religion puts a value on irrationality, which makes it the perfect tool for promoting irrational beliefs like misogyny. Other ideologies can be challenged with evidence and reason, but religion is allowed a pass by most people. And that's why it's especially dangerous.

  Amanda Marcotte

  People, Perfect, Tools

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• There is nothing more dangerous than idleness...In labor there is salvation; in labor there is safety.

  Francis M. Lyman

  Safety, Salvation, Labor

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• Villainy wears many masks; none so dangerous as the mask of virtue.

  Washington Irving

  Virtue, Mask, Villainy

  "Fictional character: Ichabod Crane". "Sleepy Hollow", 1999.

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• No doubt metaphors are dangerous- and perhaps especially so in philosophy. But a prohibition against their use would be a willful and harmful restriction upon our powers of inquiry.

  Max Black

  Philosophy, Doubt, Would Be

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