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• Bill Clinton says the middle-class folks in Topeka who contribute to The 700 Club or Focus on the Family are radicals whose beliefs pose a mortal danger to this nation!

  Don Feder

  Christian, Religious, Class

  Don Feder (1996). “Who's Afraid of the Religious Right?”, p.12, Regnery Publishing

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• As has been emphasized vigorously by foreign allies and by responsible leaders of former administrations and incumbent officeholders, there is no current danger to the United States from Baghdad.

  Jimmy Carter

  Leader, Administration, Allies

  "The Troubling New Face of America: An Op-Ed by President Carter" by Jimmy Carter, www.cartercenter.org. September 04, 2002.

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• In spring 1989...I saw the buildup of demonstrations from Chengdu to Tiananmen Square. It struck me that fear had been forgotten to such an extent that few of the millions of demonstrators perceived danger. Most seemed to be taken by surprise when the army opened fire.

  Jung Chang

  Spring, Taken, Army

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• Today in Germany, everyone is being watched--even the watchers.

  Abraham Polonsky

  Germany, Today, Conspiracy

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• It's important for people not to hold a high opinion of politicians, and one of the strengths of the British is that they don't on the whole... The danger begins when people start admiring politicians.

  Richard Ingrams

  Strength, Art, Anger

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• For those who do not have faith in God, fear is a way to protect them. But if faith is strong, there is no anxiety about something in danger.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  God, Strong, Anxiety

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• ...feminism never harmed anybody unless it was some feminists. The danger is that the study and contemplation of "ourselves" may become so absorbing that it builds by slow degrees a high wall that shuts out the great world of thought.

  Rheta Childe Dorr

  Wall, Feminist, Feminism

  Rheta Childe Dorr (1980). “A woman of fifty”, Ayer Co Pub

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• A lot of people lose a sense of reality when they achieve success. That's a terrible danger because you have to remember who you were and who you are basically and that you're still a person and all that out there is a kin of magic - what people see out there is magic, it's media magic. It's not very real and it's very glamorous, but you have to keep a sense of you through it all.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Real, Media, People

  Interview with George Christy, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 10, 2011.

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• With each one, I love working on the story and the characters. The stunts, each time, we keep pushing ourselves harder and harder. And they are stunts, so there's always a danger in doing them, but fortunately, I have not had a problem. I have not missed a day of work, ever, in my career. I'm always there early. And I train very hard, and we prepare very carefully for each one.

  Tom Cruise

  Character, Careers, Stories

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• But it is important always to keep in mind that the danger of harming humans is not connected only or even mainly with telling secrets, there can be great danger in keeping secrets.

  Daniel Ellsberg

  Keeping Secrets, Mind, Important

  Live Chat with Ellsberg and Filmmakers, www.pbs.org. October 5, 2010.

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• Men in business are in as much danger from those at work under them as from those that work against them.

  Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

  Men, Artistic

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• There is a danger in being persuaded before one understands.

  Thomas F. Wilson

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• My fellow Americans, I must speak to you tonight about a mounting danger in Central America that threatens the security of the United States. This danger will not go away it will grow worse, much worse, if we fail to take action now.

  Ronald Reagan

  America, Going Away, United States

  Reagan, Ronald (1988). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1986”, p.352, Best Books on

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• Where do your greatest dangers lie?--In pity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Pity

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• It is the duty of mankind on all suitable occasions to acknowledge their dependence on the Divine Being... Almighty God would mercifully interpose and still the rage of war among the nations... He would take this province under His protection, confound the designs and defeat the attempts of its enemies, and unite our hearts and strengthen our hands in every undertaking that may be for the public good, and for our defense and security in this time of danger.

  Benjamin Franklin

  War, Heart, Hands

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• For a man to act himself, he must be perfectly free; otherwise he is in danger of losing all sense of responsibility or of self- respect.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Freedom, Integrity, Responsibility

  Henry David Thoreau (1894). “The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: With Bibliographical Introductions and Full Indexes”

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• This world has many rings, like Saturn, and we live now on the outmost of them all. None can say deliberately that he inhabits thesame sphere, or is contemporary, with the flower which his hands have plucked, and though his feet may seem to crush it, inconceivable spaces and ages separate them, and perchance there is no danger that he will hurt it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Crush, Nature, Hurt

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.306, Courier Corporation

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• For more than twenty-five years my mind had been deeply troubled by the fact that these mechanical and scientific achievements ofman had outrun his intellectual and spiritual power. ...Throughout the Second World War this terrible problem hung in the back of my mind. As I write these words the problem and the danger are as threatening as ever. We hope our nation will survive, but in its effort to survive will it transform itself intellectually and spiritually into the image of the thing against which we fought?

  Virginia Gildersleeve

  Education, Spiritual, War

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• In estimating the adversities of life, we would seldom have much reason to complain of the evils we suffer, did we understand the dangers we daily escape.

  Norm MacDonald

  Adversity, Evil, Suffering

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• I perfectly understand the particular attention which you pay to the question of nuclear energy, and fully realize the possible dangers and catastrophes which might result for mankind from an irresponsible attitude. In this field my wish is for Iran to put all her efforts towards the peaceful use of atomic energy. We shall continue to co-operate with all the nations of the world to attain this end in the interests of human society.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Attitude, Iran, Effort

  Message to the White House in April 1977. "The Shah's Story". Book by Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, pp. 67-68, 1980.

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• It is at the approach of extreme danger when a hollow puppet can accomplish nothing, that power falls into the mighty hands of nature, of the spirit giant-born, who listens only to himself, and knows nothing of compacts.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Fall, Accomplish Nothing, Hands

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• There is the liability of accepting prematurely an artificial horizon for our own character and personality, of losing the horizon of the possible person we might be. It is the danger of considering our character as something static, rather than as something emerging.

  Halford Luccock

  Character, Personality, Horizon

  "Marching Off the Map: And Other Sermons". Book by Halford Edward Luccock, p. 83, 1952.

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• The Atomic Age was born in secrecy, and for two decades after Hiroshima, the high priests of the cult of the atom concealed vital information about the risks to human health posed by radiation. Dr. Alice Stewart, an audacious and insightful medical researcher, was one of the first experts to alert the world to the dangers of low-level radiation.

  Stewart Udall

  Two, Risk, Insightful

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• The health of the soul is as precarious as that of the body; for when we seem secure from passions, we are no less in danger of their infection than we are of falling ill when we appear to be well.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Fall, Passion, Soul

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• What finally emerges from the 'clear and present danger' cases is a working principle that the substantive evil must be extremely serious and the degree of imminence extremely high before utterances can be punished...It must be taken as a command of the broadest scope that explicit language, read in the context of a liberty-loving society, will allow.

  Hugo Black

  Taken, Evil, Justice

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