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• It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen; they cannot 'do'; they can only be done by.

  Rumer Godden

  Dolls, Done, Sometimes

  Rumer Godden (2015). “The Dolls' House”, p.9, Pan Macmillan

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• The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.

  Peter Drucker

  Business, Mistake, Wrong Answers

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• A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Learning

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• Woolf wanted to say dangerous things in Orlando but she did not want to say them in the missionary position.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Want, Orlando, Missionary

  Jeanette Winterson (2013). “Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery”, p.49, Random House

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• This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes they consume us completely.

  Arthur Golden

  Dream, Fire, Doe

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• When you are subverting the power of government, that's a fundamentally dangerous thing to democracy.

  Edward Snowden

  Government, Democracy, Dangerous

  "Opinion Roundup: Edward Snowden And The NSA Leaks". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. June 10, 2013.

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• 'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being; the difference between sanity and insanity; the meaning of life and death; what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad.

  Michael Sheen

  Real, Differences, Life And Death

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Concentrated political power is the most dangerous thing on earth.

  Rudolph Rummel

  Political, Liberty, Earth

  "Rudolph Rummel Talks About the Miracle of Liberty and Peace". The Freeman Interview, fee.org. July 1, 1997.

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• The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Successful, Temptation, Dangerous

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 120, 1799.

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• Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.

  Oscar Wilde

  Reality, Dangerous, Ideals

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (more than 150 Works)”, p.281, e-artnow

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• ...there is therefore now no condemnation for two reasons: you are dead now; and God, as the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world, has been dead all along. The blame game was over before it started. It really was. All Jesus did was announce that truth and tell you it would make you free. It was admittedly a dangerous thing to do. You are a menace. Be he did it; and therefore, menace or not, here you stand: uncondemned, forever, now. What are you going to do with your freedom?

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Jesus, Games, Two

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• The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Danger, Dangerous

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• Twenty aspirin, a little slit alongside the veins of the arm, maybe even a bad half hour standing on a roof: We've all had those. And somewhat more dangerous things, like putting a gun in your mouth. But you put it there, you taste it, it's cold and greasy, your finger is on the trigger, and you find that a whole world lies between this moment and the moment you've been planning, when you'll pull the trigger. That world defeats you. You put the gun back in the drawer. You'll have to find another way.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Lying, Gun, Girl Interrupted

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.17, Vintage

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• Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Jerome K. Jerome (2014). “Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.44, Diderot Publishing

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• Because you may think a bed is a peaceful thing, Sir, and to you it may mean rest and comfort and a good night's sleep. But it isn't so for everyone; and there are many dangerous things that may take place in a bed.

  Margaret Atwood

  Good Night, Mean, Sleep

  Margaret Atwood (2011). “Alias Grace: A Novel”, p.161, Anchor

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• It's impossible to consider living without ideals. However, when ideas lead to ideology, that's a very dangerous thing. Ideology then leads to creating the image of an enemy, and it leads to the murder and massacre that we've seen since the beginning of time.

  Michael Haneke

  Ideas, Creating, Enemy

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. December 30, 2009.

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• [I]f you think that American imperialism and its globalised, capitalist form is the most dangerous thing in the world, that means you don't think the Islamic Republic of Iran or North Korea or the Taliban is as bad.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Islamic, Mean, Thinking

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• There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Dangerous, Bigots, Conscience

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• Dreams can be dangerous things.

  Cassandra Clare

  Dream, Dangerous, James Carstairs

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Angel”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• I feel something for you, some dangerous thing, some volatile thing.

  Nora Roberts

  Dangerous, Feels

  Nora Roberts (2009). “Genuine Lies”, p.198, Bantam

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• Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.

  Stephen King

  Men, Insane, Redemption

  "Fictional character: Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding". "The Shawshank Redemption", www.imdb.com. September 10, 1994.

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• All I did was go to sleep. There shouldn’t be anything safer than that. (Kiara) Spoken like a true civilian. Trust me, princess, that’s the most dangerous thing anyone does…Well, that, and go to the can. (Nykyrian)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Princess, Sleep, Doe

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Born of Night: The League: Nemesis Rising”, p.65, St. Martin's Paperbacks

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• Things like microphones are dangerous things because you never know when they might feedback and squeal.

  Temple Grandin

  Might, Feedback, Microphones

  "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. January 20, 2006.

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• Love makes you foolish. It makes you throw every bit of logic away, do stupid things, dangerous things.

  Melissa Marr

  Stupid, Logic, Foolish

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• There's a danger of the Internet just becoming loud, ugly and boring with a thousand voices screaming for attention.

  Matt Drudge

  Voice, Attention, Ugly

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