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• A people who mean to be free must be prepared to meet danger in person, and not rely upon the fallacious protection of armies

  Edmund Randolph

  Freedom, Military, Responsibility

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• Because dating is a human exercise, it can be a tightrope fraught with danger. You will be dating imperfect people, and some of them are more imperfect than others. In addition, you are not perfect either, so that complicates the picture.

  Henry Cloud

  Exercise, People, Perfect

  Henry Cloud, John Townsend (2006). “God Will Make a Way: What to Do When You Don't Know What to Do”, p.103, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I don't mean to imply that we are in imminent danger of being wiped off the face of the earth - at least, not on account of global warming. But climate change does confront us with profound new realities. We face these new realities as a nation, as members of the world community, as consumers, as producers, and as investors. And unless we do a better job of adjusting to these new realities, we will pay a heavy price. We may not suffer the fate of the dinosaurs. But there will be a toll on our environment and on our economy, and the toll will rise higher with each new generation.

  Eileen Claussen

  Jobs, Mean, Fate

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• Help, then, is the ballast that keeps us steady, that recognizes where along the path are the dangers and pitfalls that can throw us off; hope tempers fear so we can recognize dangers and then bypass or endure them.

  Jerome Groopman

  Hope, Pitfalls, Path

  Jerome Groopman (2005). “The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness”, Random House Trade Paperbacks

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• Laughter in the face of danger is a mark of courage.

  Jennifer Lee Carrell

  Laughter, Faces, Mark

  Jennifer Lee Carrell (2007). “Interred with Their Bones”, p.234, Penguin

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• Wine is the liquid form of the Goddess Tara, who is the saviour of all living creatures, the mother of all enjoyment and Release, the destroyer of dangers and disease, who burns up all sins and purifies the worlds, O Beloved , who grants all success and increases knowledge, understanding and learning.

  Wendy Doniger

  Mother, Wine, Understanding

  Wendy Doniger (1988). “Textual Sources for the Study of Hinduism”, p.135, Manchester University Press

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• God is like a computer, the more software you put in, the greater the danger that extensions will conflict.

  Alexander Waugh

  Computer, Conflict, Software

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• The danger is not only that these austerity measures are killing the European economies but also that they threaten the very legitimacy of European democracies - not just directly by threatening the livelihoods of so many people and pushing the economy into a downward spiral, but also indirectly by undermining the legitimacy of the political system through this backdoor rewriting of the social contract.

  Ha-Joon Chang

  People, Political, Democracy

  "The root of Europe's riots" by Ha-Joon Chang, www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2012.

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• The point is, we can decry the dangers we face or ignore them or even allow ourselves to be paralyzed by fear.

  Benjamin Carson

  Fear, Faces, Paralyzed

  "Take the Risk: Learning to Identify, Choose, and Live with Acceptable Risk". Book by Ben Carson and Gregg Lewis, 2008.

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• To avert the danger [posed by theory] to life, Nietzsche could choose one of two ways: he could insist on the strictly esoteric character of the theoretical analysis of life - that is, restore the Platonic notion of the noble delusion - or else he could deny the possibility of theory proper and so conceive of thought as essentially subservient to, or dependent on, life or fate... If not Nietzsche himself, at any rate his successors [Heidegger] adopted the second alternative.

  Leo Strauss

  Character, Fate, Two

  "Natural Right and History". Book by Leo Strauss, 1953.

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• The danger which threatens us comes from Labour...Those who think that the Conservative or Unionist Party, standing as such and disavowing its Liberal allies, could return with a working majority are living in a fools paradise and, if they persist, may easily involve themselves and the country in dangers the outcome of which it is hard to predict.

  Austen Chamberlain

  Country, Party, Thinking

  "The Impact of Labour, 1920-1924: The Beginnings of Modern British Politics" by Maurice Cowling, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (p. 181), 1971.

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• The greatest danger for those working in the cinema is the extraordinary possibility it offers for lying.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Lying, Cinema, Possibility

  "Interview in Rome". Encountering Directors, (pp. 15-32), 1972.

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• The danger of a closed mind is that it can also leave good things like love, compassion and reason on its outside.

  Lennox Lewis

  Compassion, Like Love, Mind

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• We send our [peacekeepers] off to some disputed zone, full of local intrigue and power blocs and uncertainty and danger, and they are supposed to save lives not with their weapons, but through their competence and their character. And they do it.

  Romeo LeBlanc

  Character, Weapons, Save A Life

  Speech on the occasion of the presentation of the insignia of the Order of Military Merit, February 05, 1997.

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• Well, the first days are the hardest days, don't you worry anymore. When life looks like Easy Street there is danger at your door.

  Robert Hunter

  Doors, Worry, Looks

  Robert Hunter, David G. Dodd (2005). “The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• Nero wasn't worried at all when he heard the utterance of the Delphic Oracle: "Beware the age of seventy-three." Plenty of time to enjoy himself still. He's thirty. The deadline the god has given him is quite enough to cope with future dangers.

  C.P. Cavafy

  Age, Oracles, Utterance

  "Constantine P. Cavafy: Collected Poems". Book by Constantine Cavafy, p. 87, 2009.

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• There's a romance to danger. There's a romance to drinking, to drugs, to petty crime and to heartbreak and loneliness. All of those things can be used to make the story of our lives better.

  Joey Comeau

  Loneliness, Drinking, Romance

  Interview with Adrian Comeau, "I Am Other People" series, www.asofterworld.com.

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• After listening to the debate on unemployment I can see a danger that Liberals lose to the Tories their claim to have new and sensible ideas and are left saying "Me too" to a Socialist conventional wisdom which is failing. The salient need of this country to produce more and much more efficiently hardly figured on the agenda.

  Jo Grimond

  Country, Ideas, Listening

  The Sunday Times, September 19, 1976.

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• This [Magna Carta] has been forced from the King. It constitutes an insult to the Holy See, a serious weakening of the royal power, a disgrace to the English nation, a danger to all Christendom, since this civil war obstructs the crusade. Therefore?we condemn the charter and forbid the King to keep it, or the barons and their supporters to make him do so, on pain of excommunication.

  Pope Innocent III

  Kings, Pain, War

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• But even now, after the greatest victory known to history we cannot for one minute forget the basic fact that our country remains the one socialist state in the world. You will speak frankly about this to the collective farmers...Only the most concrete, most immediate danger, which threatened us from Hitlerite Germany, has disappeared.

  Mikhail Kalinin

  Country, Greatest Victory, Germany

  "The Soviet Union Since World War II" by American Academy of Political and Social Science, Philip Edward Mosely, (p. 4), 1949.

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• For every apparent gain, in short, we now observe a balancing danger. This is the world we have created.

  Mark Kingwell

  World, Gains

  Mark Kingwell (2000). “The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age”, p.165, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The Conservative Party has one overriding concern in foreign policy, and that is the growth of Communist power and influence in the world, and the dangers it can bring for all of us.

  Reginald Maudling

  Party, Growth, World

  The Times, April 26, 1976.

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• We are here to say that if you are evil enough to threaten the life of a child, if you are evil enough to interfere with their education, and if you are evil enough to place in danger the future of our communities, you ought to be punished in a very special way.

  Jose Peralta

  Children, Evil, Community

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• No generation can do another generation's work for it. What we human beings can do at most is to mark out the pathway a little clearer for the generations to come after, and put legible signboards at the points where the greatest dangers have threatened us, in the hope that our posterity will read, understand, and be warned.

  Joseph Alexander Leighton

  Littles, Pathways, Generations

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• Let the child feel Christ is near him; By your faith will grow his own; Death nor danger will affright him If he never feels alone.

  Maud Lindsay

  Children, Christ, Grows

  Maud Lindsay (2005). “Mother Stories”, p.110, 1st World Publishing

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