Dangerous Quotes - Page 16

• For all you know, the way I act could very well be an act. Or maybe it isn't. I could be the most dangerous, most vicious one of the bunch, because no one takes me seriously!

  Stevie Richards

  Way, Vicious, Bunch

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• It's dangerous to short stocks.

  Charlie Munger

  Charlie Munger's investment afvice at the 2002 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, www.tilsonfunds.com. May 4, 2002.

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• I think we have some special talents. That being said, I think it's dangerous to rely on special talents - it's better to own lots of monopolistic businesses with unregulated prices. But that's not the world today. We have made money exercising our talents and will continue to do so.

  Charlie Munger

  Exercise, Thinking, Special

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• All secret oath-bound political parties are dangerous to any nation, no matter how pure or how patriotic the motives and principles which first bring them together.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Party, Patriotic, Political

  Ulysses S. Grant (2013). “The Personal Memoirs of General U. S.”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

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• To obtain salvation we must tremble at the thought of being lost, and tremble not so much at the thought of hell, as of sin, which alone can send us thither. He who dreads sin avoids dangerous occasions, frequently recommends himself to God, and has recourse to the means of keeping himself in the state of grace. He who acts thus will be saved; but for him who lives not in this manner it is morally impossible to be saved.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Mean, Grace, Impossible

  Saint Alphonsus de Liguori, Catholic Way Publishing (2016). “The Saint Alphonsus de Liguori Collection [30 Books]”, p.10616, Catholic Way Publishing

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• There is nothing more dangerous in the spiritual life, than to wish to rule ourselves after our own way of thinking.

  Philip Neri

  Spiritual, Thinking, Wish

  St Philip Neri (2009). “The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri”, p.57, St Athanasius Press

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• Ever since I assumed my present office my main purpose has been to work for the pacification of Europe, for the removal of those suspicions and those animosities which have so long poisoned the air. The path which leads to appeasement is long and bristles with obstacles. The question of Czechoslovakia is the latest and perhaps the most dangerous. Now that we have got past it, I feel that it may be possible to make further progress along the road to sanity.

  Neville Chamberlain

  Past, Air, Europe

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• Only love and courage will make this world a safer place. Hatred and fear will make it more dangerous.

  Laurence Overmire

  Hatred, World, Love And Courage

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• But I do nothing that I don't like, such as "inventing" up to the arty or "down" to the corny. I happen to relish a certain type of corn. What I think is the really dangerous approach is the "let's be artistic" attitude. I know that artistry just happens.

  Fred Astaire

  Attitude, Thinking, Corn

  "Steps in Time" by Fred Astaire, (pp. 6-7), 1959.

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• The witnessing of titanic events is always dangerous, usually painful, and often fatal.

  Larry Niven

  Events, Painful

  "Ringworld". Book by Larry Niven, October 1970.

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• Certainty without power can be interesting, even amusing. Certainty with power can be dangerous.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Interesting, Amusing, Certainty

  Donald Rumsfeld (2011). “Known and Unknown: A Memoir”, p.149, Penguin

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• The more freedoms Americans lose, the more dangerous government becomes.

  James Bovard

  Government, Loses

  James Bovard (2015). “Terrorism and Tyranny: Trampling Freedom, Justice, and Peace to Rid the World of Evil”, p.349, Macmillan

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• We have to be faster in calming down a resentment than putting out a fire, because the consequences of the first are infinitely more dangerous than the results of the last; fire ends burning down some houses at the most, while the resentment can cause cruel wars, with the ruin and total destruction of nations.

  Heraclitus

  War, Fire, House

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• Everything is dangerous to him that is afraid of it.

  Benjamin Whichcote

  Benjamin Whichcote, Anthony Tuckney (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms [collected by J. Jeffery from the papers of B. Whichcote]. Now re-publ., with additions, by S. Salter. To which are added, Eight letters: which passed between dr. Whichcote, and dr. Tuckney”, p.181

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• Where's that toxic rhetoric coming from? Let's not make a false pretense of balance: it's coming, overwhelmingly, from the right. It's hard to imagine a Democratic member of Congress urging constituents to be "armed and dangerous" without being ostracized; but Representative Michele Bachmann, who did just that, is a rising star in the G.O.P.

  Paul Krugman

  Stars, Balance, Toxic

  "Climate of Hate". www.nytimes.com. January 9, 2011.

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• People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.

  Rollo May

  People, Way

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• I still feel like my game is very dangerous. I always will have my serve.

  Pete Sampras

  Games, Feels, Stills

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• I love New York, but it's a rough city. It's not dangerous now the way it was in the 70's or the 80's, but it's still a rough city. It's hard to hack it there. Life is harder than it is on the West Coast. To be able to deal with that, you have to have a lot of aspirational feelings pinned on being there.

  Greta Gerwig

  New York, Cities, Life Is Hard

  Source: collider.com

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• The road has been viewed as a male turf. If you think of the classic "Odyssey," of, you know, classical literature or Jack Kerouac or almost any road story, it's really about a man on the road. There's an assumption that the road is too dangerous for women.

  Gloria Steinem

  Men, Thinking, Males

  "Gloria Steinem Shares What She Learned 'On The Road'". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. December 2, 2015.

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• The notion of making the television - the very thing that we allow into our living room and our kid's bedroom - something that's potentially dangerous, to me, is just so incredibly delicious that I can't tell you.

  Rockne S. O'Bannon

  Kids, Television, Rooms

  Source: collider.com

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• The security of computers and the Internet is a horrible and dangerous mess. Every week we hear about breaches of databases of Social Security numbers and financial information and health records, and about critical infrastructure being insecure.

  Matt Blaze

  Insecure, Numbers, Records

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Inflation is not a benign element in the economy's operation. It is, as it has always been, the most dangerous and destructive form of taxation.

  Robert Higgs

  Elements, Taxation, Economy

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• Images of resentment and revenge only have us spending the precious moments of our lives imagining the 'other' as both dangerous and important!

  Bill Crawford

  Revenge, Important, Resentment

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• Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.

  Andre Gide

  Ideas, Doe, Dare

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• People with good intentions but limited understanding are more dangerous than people with total ill will.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Ill Will, People, Understanding

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