Dangerous Things Quotes - Page 10

• Advertising is like learning - a little is a dangerous thing.

  P. T. Barnum

  Humorous, Littles, Advertising

  P. T. Barnum (2015). “The Art of Money Getting, or Golden Rules for Making Money”, p.45, Booklassic

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• Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.

  Edward Abbey

  Power, Anarchy, Worst

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.21, RosettaBooks

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• I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.

  Tori Amos

  Thinking, Variation, Theme

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• Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Education, School

  "Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton : The Illustrated London News, 1905-1907". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1986.

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• I'd say the most dangerous thing I've ever done is probably bungee jumping in Thailand...

  Simon Cowell

  Jumping, Done, Thailand

  "'If you could kiss anyone in the world, who would it be?'". Interview with Francesca Gallio, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2009.

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• When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.

  Charles Dickens

  Men, People, Laughing

  Charles Dickens (2016). “The Pickwick Papers: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.353, Pan Macmillan

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• A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.

  Frederick Douglass

  Education, Learning, People

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• Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.

  Epictetus

  Friendship, Effort, Training

  Epictetus (1967). “Epictetus: the Discourses as reported by Arrian, the Manual, and fragments”

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• He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Women, Wife, Danger

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• Money without brains is always dangerous.

  Napoleon Hill

  Money, Brain, Wealth

  Napoleon Hill, Wallace D. Wattles (2012). “Get Rich Collection”, p.99, Penguin

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• During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Inspirational, Men, Heartache

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• The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Truth, Propaganda, Dangerous

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook H 7, 1799.

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• If a little knowledge was a dangerous thing, a lot was lethal.

  Tom Sharpe

  Littles, Dangerous, Little Knowledge

  Tom Sharpe (1974). “Porterhouse Blue”, p.191, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• There is no more dangerous thing for a democracy than a foreign policy based on presidential preventive war.

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  War, Presidential, Democracy

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• The most dangerous thing about student riots is that adults take them seriously.

  Georges Pompidou

  Adults, Students, Dangerous

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• Criticizing others is a dangerous thing, not so much because you may make mistakes about them, but because you may be revealing the truth about yourself.

  Harold Medina

  Trust, Mistake, Empathy

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• I need not add that freedom is a dangerous thing. But it is hardly possible that we are all cowards.

  Jack Parsons

  Coward, Add, Needs

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• Dangerous thing, giving humanity the knowledge of good and evil. And the capacity to make the wrong choice more often than not.

  Lawrence Block

  Evil, Giving, Choices

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• Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.

  Margaret Deland

  Common Sense, Dangerous, Conscience

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• But if it's tolerable mediocrity, and you're like, 'Well, you know it could be worse. At least I'm getting paid.' Then you wind up in a job that is slowly killing your soul and you're allowing that to happen. Comfort can be a very, very dangerous thing.

  Tim Ferriss

  Jobs, Wind, Soul

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• The first time a student realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing is when he brings home a poor report card.

  Mark Twain

  Time, Home, Learning

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• I think that the lack of intuition in fashion today is one of the most dangerous things. My fear is that our business is turning into a bag business, and it's all about the bag. But it's not only about the bag. It's about the women. And it's not about a bag or a shoe or the jewelry. It's only about women. . . . Being almost politically correct and doing only what you expect without the ability to make mistakes is very dangerous to fashion. We have to go with our heart. We have to go with our intuition.

  Alber Elbaz

  Fashion, Mistake, Heart

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• Assumptions are dangerous things to make, and like all dangerous things to make - bombs, for instance, or strawberry shortcake - if you make even the tiniest mistake you can find yourself in terrible trouble.

  Daniel Handler

  Wisdom, Mistake, Finding Yourself

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• My bounce-around life had taught me that dreams were dangerous things - they look solid in your mind, but you just try to reach for them. It's like gathering clouds.

  Kirby Larson

  Dream, Clouds, Mind

  Kirby Larson (2007). “Hattie Big Sky”, p.3, Yearling

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• The most dangerous moment comes with victory.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Success, War, Greatest Victory

  "Your Mind Power Unleashed" by Thomas W. Foster, (p. 123), 2001.

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