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• The Universe forces those who live in it to understand it. Those creatures who find everyday experience a muddled jumble of events with no predictability, no regularity, are in grave peril. The Universe belongs to those who, at least to some degree, have figured it out.

  Carl Sagan

  Everyday, Events, Degrees

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science”, p.19, Ballantine Books

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• Putting our ecosystem in great peril is certainly not a part of Chinese culture that I know.

  Yao Ming

  Ecosystems, Chinese, Culture

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

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• Having served as the majority spokesman for the House Ways and Means Committee after Republicans took the House in 1994, I've seen the promise and the peril of divided government before.

  Ari Fleischer

  Mean, Government, House

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• The High Divide, a novel about a family in peril, is haunting and tense but leavened by considerable warmth and humanity. Lin Enger writes with durable grace about a man’s quest for redemption and the human capacity for forgiveness.

  Benjamin Percy

  Writing, Men, Grace

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• The peril of this Nation is not in any foreign foe! We, the people, are its power, its peril, and its hope.

  Charles Evans Hughes

  People, Foe, Nations

  Charles Evans Hughes (1910). “Conditions of Progress in Democratic Government”

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• When both my editors say 'This is really bad, you need to change this,' I ignore that at my peril.

  Robin Hobb

  Editors, Needs, Need A Change

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• If the conquest of a great peak brings moments of exultation and bliss, which in the monotonous, materialistic existence of modern times nothing else can approach, it also presents great dangers. It is not the goal of ‘grand alpinisme’ to face peril, but it is one of the tests one must undergo to deserve the joy of rising for an instant above the state of crawling grubs.

  Lionel Terray

  Mountain Peaks, Climbing, Goal

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• Animals are not just other species. They are other nations. And we murder them at our peril. The peace map is drawn on a menu. Peace is not just the absence of war. It is the presence of Justice. Justice must be blind to race, color, religion or species. If she is not blind, she will be a weapon of terror.

  Philip Wollen

  War, Animal, Race

  "Philip Wollen, Australian Philanthropist, Former VP of Citibank, Makes Blazing Animal Rights Speech". Philip Wollen's speech at the St James Ethics Centre and the Wheeler Centre debate in Australia, freefromharm.org. May 16, 2012.

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• Instead of bracing yourself for the perils of the unknown, embrace the joy that is here, in your present moment.

  Michelle Cruz

  Joy, Moments, Embrace

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• The church is ever in peril-and never more so than now-of the disaster which must follow when she allows men of distinction in the sphere of human attainments, who are unregenerate or unspiritual, to dictate as to what her beliefs shall be.

  Lewis Sperry Chafer

  Men, Church, Spheres

  Lewis Sperry Chafer (1947). “Systematic Theology”

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• Freedom is never more in peril than when politicians feel the pressure to 'do something.'

  Sheldon Richman

  Politics, Pressure, Politician

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• Congress has turned its back on America's working families. There are Teamster families in every congressional district in America, and those families vote. Those who would oppose these families have done so at their own political peril.

  James P. Hoffa

  America, Political, Done

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• You know, the cure for all this talk is really a good dose of incompetent government. You get that alternative and you'll never put Singapore together again: Humpty Dumpty cannot be put together again... my asset values will disappear, my apartments will be worth a fraction of what they were, my ministers' jobs will be in peril, their security will be at risk and their women will become maids in other people's countries, foreign workers.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Country, Jobs, Together Again

  Straits Times, April 5, 2007.

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• I never thought very many people in the world were very much like John Laroche, but I realized more and more that he was only an extreme, not an aberration - that most people in some way or another do strive for something exceptional, something to pursue, even at their peril, rather than abide an ordinary life.

  Susan Orlean

  People, Way, Ordinary

  Susan Orlean (2000). “The Orchid Thief”, Ballantine Books

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• Love is a dangerous commodity-fraught with peril.

  Robert Indiana

  Love Is, Commodity, Dangerous

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• If you are ever inclined to pray for a missionary, do it at once, where ever you are. Perhaps he may be in great peril at that moment.

  Amy Carmichael

  Missionary, May, Praying

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• Christian mothers, if only you knew the future of distress and peril, of shame ill-restrained, that you prepare for your sons and daughters in imprudently accustoming them to live hardly clothed and in making them lose the sense of modesty, you should be ashamed of yourselves and of the harm done the little ones whom heaven entrusted to your care, to be reared in Christian dignity and culture.

  Pope Pius XII

  Christian, Daughter, Mother

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• Blackened skeleton arms of wood by the wayside pointed upward to the convent, as if the ghosts of former travellers, overwhelmed by the snow, haunted the scene of their distress. Icicle-hung caves and cellars built for refuges from sudden storms, were like so many whispers of the perils of the place; never-resting wreaths and mazes of mist wandered about, hunted by a moaning wind; and snow, the besetting danger of the mountain, against which all its defences were taken, drifted sharply down.

  Charles Dickens

  Taken, Skeletons, Wind

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Little Dorrit”, p.448, Cosimo, Inc.

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• For I am fresh of spirit, and resolved
  To meet all perils very constantly.

  William Shakespeare

  Spirit, Resolution, Resolve

  "The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Julius Cæser. Antony and Cleopatra. Cymbeline. Titus Andronicus. Pericles".

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• Place your army in deadly peril, and it will survive; plunge it into desperate straits, and it will come off in safety.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Army, Safety

  Sun, Tzu (2015). “The Art of War”, p.156, Aegitas

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• An inventor's endeavor is essentially lifesaving. Whether he harnesses forces, improves devices, or provides new comforts and conveniences, he is adding to the safety of our existence. He is also better qualified than the average individual to protect himself in peril, for he is observant and resourceful.

  Nikola Tesla

  Life, Average, Safety

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “My Inventions”, p.13, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Self-recognition is necessary to know one's road, but, knowing the road, the price of the mistakes and perils is worth paying. The following of that road will be all the discipline one needs. Discipline does not mean being molded by outside forces, but sticking to one's road against the forces that would deflect or bury the soul. People speak of finding one

  Randolph Bourne

  Mistake, Mean, Self

  Randolph Bourne (1992). “The Radical Will: Selected Writings, 1911-1918”, p.133, Univ of California Press

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• General knowledge may have to be slight or even amateurish knowledge, but it is none the less useful, and we discourage it at our peril.

  C. V. Wedgwood

  Knowledge, May, Discouraging

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• It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

  Jean-Francois Regnard

  Courage, Heart, Bravery

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• REFLECTION,n: An Action of the mind whereby we obtain a clearer view of our relation to the things of yesterday and are able to avoid the perils that we shall not again encounter

  Ambrose Bierce

  Reflection, Views, Yesterday

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.195, University of Georgia Press

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