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  I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Freedom, War, Gun

  Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “Paine and Jefferson on Liberty”, p.89, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Boys should not play with weapons more dangerous than they understand.

  E. T. A. Hoffmann

  Boys, Play, Weapons

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• As soon as there is life there is danger.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Greatness, Danger

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.301, University of Georgia Press

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• The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  War, People, Ignorant

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• We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves.

  Daniel Boone

  Country, Men, White Man

  John Filson, Daniel Boone (1793). “The discovery, settlement and present state of Kentucky, and an introduction to the topography and natural history of that ... country. Also colonel Daniel Boon's narrative of the wars of Kentucky”, p.36

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• I was never a dangerous woman. I'm not the prissy blonde woman that could take your husband away.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Husband, Blonde, Your Husband

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• Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.

  Peter Drucker

  Senior, Business, Mistake

  Peter Drucker, Harvard Business Review (2016). “The Peter F. Drucker Reader: Selected Articles from the Father of Modern Management Thinking”, p.9, Harvard Business Review Press

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• Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs.

  King James I

  Marijuana, Smoking, Brain

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• I like directors who come on the set and create something that's a little dangerous, difficult or unusual.

  Elia Kazan

  Directors, Littles, Unusual

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• Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.

  Milan Kundera

  Love, Dream, Memories

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• The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Spiritual, Punishment, Smack

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Fantasia of the Unconscious: Top Novelist Focus”, p.29, 谷月社

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• The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  Peace, Military, War

  "Searchlights and Nightingales". Book by Robert Wilson Lynd, 1939.

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• Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals.

  David Ogilvy

  Business, People, Enemy

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• A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

  Alexander Pope

  Education, Spring, Learning

  An Essay on Criticism l. 215 (1711) See Drayton 2

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• When you have a person in power who punishes people for speaking their mind, it's truly dangerous.

  Tim Robbins

  People, Mind, Persons

  "'I don't know what I am.' – Tim Robbins". Interview with Jake Tracer, dailybruin.com. June 13, 2004.

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• Considering the fact that I've used it in the past, and know what it is, and seen the results of it, I don't view marijuana as a dangerous drug.

  Tim Robbins

  Past, Marijuana, Views

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• To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.

  George Santayana

  Positive, War, Remembrance

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.262, Рипол Классик

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• Even without wars, life is dangerous.

  Anne Sexton

  Life, War, Reality

  Anne Sexton (1974). “The death notebooks”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Temptation, Sin

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 2, sc. 2, l. 180

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• A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Risk, Littles, Dangerous Things

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• Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world.

  Ted Turner

  Men, World, Dangerous Man

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• Getting typecast is a dangerous thing to do.

  Michael Zaslow

  Things To Do, Dangerous Things

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• But really, I can only be dangerous for the team in one place, and that is in the box.

  Ruud van Nistelrooy

  Sports, Team, Boxes

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• Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor

  Milan Kundera

  Love Is, Unbearable Lightness Of Being, Metaphor

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• The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Future Leaders, Born Leaders

  Warren Bennis, Steven B. Sample, Rob Asghar (2015). “The Art and Adventure of Leadership: Understanding Failure, Resilience and Success”, p.15, John Wiley & Sons

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