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• Through lack of education, we're not teaching kids to read and write. So there is the danger that you raise up a generation of morons.

  Ray Bradbury

  Teaching, Writing, Kids

  Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.189, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I believe a personal relationship with God is healthy, but organized religion has potential for danger, in whatever faith.

  Max Lucado

  Believe, Healthy, Relationship With God

  Source: edition.cnn.com

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• There is a great danger to the world, not only to my country [Israel] but to the United States, to the Middle East, to peace, to all of humanity, from the prospect that such regimes that brutalize its own people, that sponsors terrorism more than any other regime in the world - that this regime acquires atomic bombs is very, very dangerous.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Country, Israel, People

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The danger is in what we codify, commodify, and exploit.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Exploits

  Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “Leap”, p.140, Vintage

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• I would, if checking boxes in a questionnaire, say I would oppose abortion except when the life of the mother is in danger.

  Michael Baumgartner

  Mother, Abortion, Boxes

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• It would be a sad thing if the religious and moral convictions upon which the American experiment was founded could now somehow be considered a danger to free society.

  Pope John Paul II

  Religious, Would Be, Moral

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• For thousands and thousands of American kids, libraries are the only safe place they can find to study, a haven free from the dangers of street or the numbing temptations of television. As schools cut back services, the library looms even more important to countless children.

  Scott Turow

  Children, School, Kids

  "Let-Them-Eat-Cake-Attitude Threatens to Destroy a Network of Public Assets" by Scott Turow, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2011.

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• There is, to be sure, sometimes only a small difference between being alert to possible danger and allowing oneself to become terrified to the point of paralysis by seeming or imagined portents.

  Sherwin B. Nuland

  Differences, Sometimes, Paralysis

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• Think about it. For the sake of fame, men will risk great dangers. They put themselves in the jaws of death more than for their children. For fame, they will spend their money like water and work their fingers to the bone. Have you not observed this in your own home?

  Karen Essex

  Children, Home, Thinking

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• Use makes a better soldier than the most urgent considerations of duty,--familiarity with danger enabling him to estimate the danger. He sees how much is the risk, and is not afflicted with imagination; knows practically Marshal Saxe's rule, that every soldier killed costs the enemy his weight in lead.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  War, Imagination, Soldier

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.132, Harvard University Press

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• Fascism means first of all defending your nation against the dangers that threaten it. It means the destruction of these dangers and the opening of a free way to life and glory for your nation.

  Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

  Mean, Way, Firsts

  Corneliu Zelea Codreanu (2015). “For My Legionaries”, p.96, Black House Publishing Ltd

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• There is no feeling like coming home after danger.

  Bear Grylls

  Home, Feelings, Coming Home

  FaceBook post by Bear Grylls from Feb 28, 2012

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• Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.

  Lucretius

  Adversity, Men, Doubt

  Lucretius (2005). “Sensation and Sex”, p.7, Penguin UK

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• Those of us who decided to work for democracy in Burma made our choice in the conviction that the danger of standing up for basic human rights in a repressive society was preferable to the safety of a quiescent life in servitude

  Aung San

  Rights, Safety, Choices

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• The worst violence we can do to each other often is psychological, especially in families. I dwell a lot on domestic danger. Thats the backdrop of most of my novels - what kind of damage is done without ever lifting a finger.

  Lisa Unger

  Damage Is Done, Often Is, Violence

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• Football has to work really hard to put a smile on peoples face and not to be so focused on the question of money. Everything is in danger of losing its soul if youre always going to sell out to the highest bidder.

  Gordon Taylor

  Football, Soul, Faces

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• We are in danger of developing a cult of the Common Man, which means a cult of mediocrity.

  Herbert Hoover

  Mean, Men, Modern Life

  Herbert Hoover (1938). “Addresses upon the American road”, C. Scribner's sons

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• Industrial combination is not wrong in itself. The danger lies in taking government into partnership.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Lying, Government, Partnership

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• The world allured me & in an unguarded moment I listened to her siren voice. From that moment I seemed to lose interest in heavenly things. Friends reasoned with me & told me of the danger I was in. I felt my danger & was alarmed, but I had rambled too far to return & ever since my heart has been growing harder.

  Emily Dickinson

  Heart, Voice, Atheism

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• And to think of this great country in danger of being dominated by people ignorant enough to take a few ancient Babylonian legends as the canons of modern culture. Our scientific men are paying for their failure to speak out earlier. There is no use now talking evolution to these people. Their ears are stuffed with Genesis.

  Luther Burbank

  Country, Men, Thinking

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• With government deregulation and the triumph of financial liberalization, the dangers of systemic risks, the possibility of a financial tsunami, sharply increased.

  Noam Chomsky

  Government, Risk, Triumph

  "'The United States Has Essentially a One-Party System'". Interview with Gabor Steingart, www.spiegel.de. October 10, 2008.

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• I'm a very circumspect and prudent person, and I eliminate danger as far as it can be done.

  Werner Herzog

  Done, Prudent, Persons

  Interview with Mark Kermode, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2009.

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• We belong to an age whose culture is in danger of perishing through the means to culture.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Age, Culture

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.182, Cambridge University Press

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• We are in the greatest danger of being run over when we have just gotten out of the way of a carriage.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Running, Way, Carriages

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• The passions are the humors of the mind, and the least excess sickens our judgment. If the disease spreads to the mouth, your reputation will be in danger.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Passion, Mind, Excess

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