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• The combination of hatred and technology is the greatest danger threatening mankind.

  Simon Wiesenthal

  Technology, Hatred, Threatening

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• It's better to do a dull thing with style than a dangerous thing without it.

  Charles Bukowski

  Style, Dull, Dangerous

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• We are to regard existence as a raid or great adventure; it is to be judged, therefore, not by what calamities it encounters, but by what flag it follows and what high town it assaults. The most dangerous thing in the world is to be alive; one is always in danger of one's life. But anyone who shrinks from that is a traitor to the great scheme and experiment of being.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Adventure, Encounters, Flags

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• The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Home, Literature, Might

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit”, p.94, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.

  Tennessee Williams

  Brother, Tongue, Dangerous

  Tennessee Williams (2008). “Camino Real”, p.20, New Directions Publishing

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• Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.

  Gertrude Stein

  Inspiring, Fear, Scary

  Everybody's Autobiography (1937) ch. 2

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

  George Bernard Shaw

  Dangerous, Bigots, Conscience

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• A piece of writing is a dangerous thing," he said. "It can change your life.

  Tobias Wolff

  Inspirational, Writing, Pieces

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• But the most dangerous thing in the world in the world is to run the risk of waking up one morning and realizing suddenly that all this time you've been living without really and truly living and by then it's too late. When you wake up to that kind of realization, it's too late for wishes and regrets. It's even too late to dream.

  Kinky Friedman

  Running, Dream, Morning

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• Hate isn’t the most dangerous thing, he’d said. Indifference is.

  Lauren Oliver

  Hate, Indifference, Delirium

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• A woman made of parts is a dangerous thing. You never know when she'll throw away a piece you may need.

  Heidi W. Durrow

  Pieces, May, Needs

  "The Girl Who Fell from the Sky". Book by Heidi W. Durrow, January 11, 2010.

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• A grown child is a dangerous thing.

  Alice Walker

  Children, Dangerous, Grown Children

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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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• A little knowledge is a dangerous thing." - Harkat Mulds (Hunters of the Dusk)

  Darren Shan

  Hunters, Littles, Dangerous

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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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• And that almost killed you?" "It wasn't deep but it got infected. Infection means that the bad germs got into it. Infection's the most dangerous thing there is, Tom. Infection was what made the superflu germ kill all the people. And infection is what made people want to make the germ in the first place. An infection of the mind.

  Stephen King

  Mean, People, Mind

  Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.1578, Anchor

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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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• Comfort can be a dangerous thing. You stick around home all the time where it’s safe and nothing ever changes, and before you know it, you get set in your ways and you quit learning, you quit changing, you don’t grow anymore.

  Frank Peretti

  Home, Comfort, Safe

  Frank E. Peretti (2011). “Monster”, p.8, Thomas Nelson Inc

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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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• 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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• 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 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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