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  The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.

  Thucydides

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Thucydides, Sir Richard Winn Livingstone (1960). “The History of the Peloponnesian War”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Suicide, Spring, Civil War

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.32, Penguin

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• Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Death, Art, Honor

  Ernest Hemingway (2002). “Death in the Afternoon”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.

  John F. Kennedy

  Freedom, Responsibility, Long

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

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• There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.

  H. G. Wells

  Suffering, Purpose, Revolution

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• In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Aristocracy, Literature, Ethics

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• I think if I were to go back on stage I might be in great danger of acting.

  Ben Kingsley

  Thinking, Acting, Might

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• Safety's just danger, out of place.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Safety

  Song: Honestly Now, Album: She, 1994

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• At the approach of danger two voices speak with equal force in the heart of man: one very reasonably tells the man to consider the nature of the danger and the means of avoiding it and the other, even more reasonable, says that it is too painful and harassing to think of the danger... better to turn aside from the painful subject till it has come, and to think of what is pleasant. In solitude a man generally yields to the first voice; in society to the second.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Mean, Heart, Men

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• The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.

  Frank Herbert

  Lying, Path, Proximity

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.69, Penguin

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• Privacy was in sufficient danger before TV appeared, and TV has given it its death blow.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Blow, Tvs, Privacy

  Louis Kronenberger (1972). “A Mania for Magnificence”

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• As an unmarried woman, I was thought to be a danger.

  Grace Kelly

  Married Women, Unmarried

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• The commission members themselves were never briefed on Able Danger.

  Curt Weldon

  Able, Members

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• The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.

  Hermann Goring

  Country, Peace, Freedom

  Quoted in Gustave M. Gilbert, Nuremberg Diary (1947).

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• Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria.

  Richard Stallman

  Fighting, Patents, Malaria

  Newsforge, September 09, 2004.

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• Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Inspirational, Courage, Men

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.92

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• McGovern is so far left that he is in danger of falling off the earth.

  John G. Schmitz

  Falling In Love, Earth, Falling Off

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• But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference.

  William Godwin

  Parent, Care, Youth

  William Godwin (1823). “The Enquirer”, p.60

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• The good Christian should beware the mathematician and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of hell.

  Saint Augustine

  Inspirational, Life, Education

  "Mathematics in Western Culture". Book by Morris Kline, 1953.

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• The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

  Israel Zangwill

  Life, Forgiveness, Memories

  Israel Zangwill (1921). “The Voice of Jerusalem”

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• Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

  William Shakespeare

  Honor, East, West

  William Shakespeare (1856). “King Henry IV, pt. 1-2. King Henry the fifth”, p.29

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• The path is smooth that leadeth on to danger.

  William Shakespeare

  Risk, Path, Smooth

  William Shakespeare (1858). “Shakespeare's comedies, histories, tragedies, and poems”, p.509

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• The European model is in danger if we obliterate the principle of personal responsibility.

  Jacques Delors

  Responsibility, Europe, Principles

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• The most dangerous thing is illusion.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Illusion, Dangerous, Dangerous Things

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• I made many studio albums and I think the danger of studio recording is that if you do not watch out, you come out with a perfectly sterile performance.

  Chuck Mangione

  Thinking, Albums, Watches

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