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

  Curt Weldon

  Able, Members

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• We don't mind that we still have troops in Germany, or that we still have troops in Japan or Korea. But they are not in danger, and we know that they are in danger in Iraq.

  Thelma Drake

  Japan, Korea, Iraq

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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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• The danger in media concentration comes not from the concentration, but instead from the feudalism that this concentration, tied to the change in copyright, produces.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Media, Produce, Concentration

  Lawrence Lessig “Free Culture”, Lulu.com

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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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• I discovered that the most dangerous mask is the one worn by intelligent people because they are clever at their disguise.

  Ala Bashir

  Clever, Intelligent, People

  "Saddam Hussein's Former Doctor Paints a Different Picture" by Charlotte Sector, abcnews.go.com. April 28, 2006.

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• Washington is dangerously positioned between two Canadas, Canada Canada and California's Canada, Oregon.

  Stephen Colbert

  Two, Oregon, California

  TV Series "The Colbert Report", 2005–2015.

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• The danger of terrorists and rogue states is compounded by the proliferation of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear weapons.

  Joe Lieberman

  Nuclear, Weapons, Rogues

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• It is... treading on dangerous ground to paint the picturesque as I am at times doing.

  E. J. Hughes

  Paint, Treading, Picturesque

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• The danger is, you have a formula and you just repeat it.

  Martin Parr

  Formulas, Repeats

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• What pleases our mind is not dangerous enough.

  Kazuaki Tanahashi

  Mind, Enough, Please

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• On the rock bound coast of New Brunswick the waves break incessantly. Every now and then comes a particularly dangerous wave that breaks viciously into the rock. It is called 'The Rage.' That's me.

  Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

  Rocks, Wave, Rage

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• You can be a giant among artists without ever attaining any great skill. Facility is a dangerous thing. When there is too much technical ease the brain stops criticizing. Don't let the hand fall into a smart way of putting the mind to sleep.

  John French Sloan

  Smart, Fall, Sleep

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• By stealthily teaching dependence, photography can turn out to be dangerous.

  Robert Genn

  Photography, Teaching, Turns

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• Why do you need street smarts? Shrewdness? Toughness? It's to protect something soft that is going to be in danger if it's exposed at the wrong time and place. It's to protect a soul. But to protect your soul, you have to have one to start with.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Smart, Soul, Needs

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• Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep'rate friends.

  Abraham Cowley

  Want, Equal, Rate

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• The danger of having too close deadlines... It could lead you to just accept an avenue that's not quite good enough.

  Judith Weir

  Good Enough, Accepting, Deadline

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• Love is dangerous in the best way possible.

  Lindsay Lohan

  Love Is, Way, Dangerous

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• The art of painting is entering a new golden age. It is in no danger of becoming obsolete.

  Joseph Plaskett

  Art, Age, Entering

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• Our training pushes us to develop a new set of instincts: instead of reacting to danger with a fight-or-flight adrenaline rush, we're trained to respond unemotionally by immediately prioritizing threats and methodically seeking to defuse them. We go from wanting to bolt for the exit to wanting to engage and understand what's going wrong, then fix it.

  Chris Hadfield

  Fighting, Training, Exit

  Chris Hadfield (2013). “An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth”, p.39, Pan Macmillan

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• There's more danger in the violence you don't face.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Faces, Violence

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• You have to have a temperamental attraction to dangerous ideas.

  Jim Holt

  Ideas, Attraction, Dangerous Ideas

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• For those who do not wish to step away from consensus, the creative is useless at best; at worst, it is dangerous.

  Deena Metzger

  Creative, Wish, Useless

  Deena Metzger (2009). “Writing for Your Life: Discovering the Story of Your Life's Jou”, p.7, Harper Collins

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