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• We call on the Senate to reject any judicial nominee who does not affirm fundamental civil rights, including a woman's right [to obtain an abortion on demand]. The threat an [pro-life] judiciary poses to women's lives demands nothing less.

  Susana Martinez

  Rights, Pro Life, Abortion

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• The core threat to democracy is not in the White House, it's the [Bush] haters themselves.

  David Brooks

  White, House, Democracy

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• With the CGI, suddenly there's a thousand enemies instead of six - the army goes off into the horizon. You don't need that. The audience loses its relationship with the threat on the screen. That's something that's consistently happening and it makes these movies like video games and that's a soulless enterprise. It's all kinetics without emotion.

  Harrison Ford

  Army, Games, Enemy

  "‘Cowboys & Aliens’ star Harrison Ford: Most special-effects films are soulless now". herocomplex.latimes.com. April 25, 2011.

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• Iran's continued drive to develop nuclear capabilities, including troubling enrichment activities and past work on weaponization documented by the IAEA, and its continued support to groups like Hezbollah, Hamas and other terrorist organizations make clear that the regime in Tehran is a very grave threat to all of us.

  Leon Panetta

  Past, Iran, Organization

  Remarks by Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta at the Saban Center, archive.defense.gov. December 2, 2011.

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• Even a faithful mistress can be bent by constant threats.

  Propertius

  Faithful, Mistress, Bent

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• Given the level of anti-Americanism in the world, given the level of frustration with the United States throughout the Muslim world, you've got a homegrown attack or you have a nuclear explosion in the air that is not a test somewhere. Those are still the biggest threats out there.

  Robert D. Kaplan

  Frustration, Air, United States

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• I was told to hand over my disposable lighter, to prevent, I suppose, any threat of "Do what I say or I'll light this Marlboro and you'll all die - in thirty years due to inhalation of secondhand smoke."

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Humorous, Food

  P.J. O'Rourke (2009). “Peace Kills”, p.58, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• In olden times when there was a war, it was a human-to-human confrontation. The victor in battle would directly see the blood and suffering of the defeated enemy. Nowadays, it is much more terrifying because a person in an office can push a button and kill millions of people and never see the human tragedy that he or she has created. The mechanization of war, the mechanization of human conflict, poses an increasing threat to peace.

  Dalai Lama

  War, Blood, Office

  "Pathways to Peace: Interreligious Readings and Reflections". Book by A. Jean Lesher, p. 111, 2005.

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• Our imagination and reasoning powers facilitate anxiety; the anxious feeling is precipitated not by an absolute impending threat-such as the worry about an examination, a speech, travel-but rather by the symbolic and often unconscious representations.

  Willard Gaylin

  Worry, Imagination, Anxiety

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• Activism is very seductive, and writing is painful and hard. It's very scary to have a death threat living over your head. Activism is very sustaining. But I don't view myself as a political person. I'm just someone who desperately wants to stay alive.

  Larry Kramer

  Writing, Views, Seductive

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• According to the Bank of England the economy is growing too fast so interest rates must rise to counter the supposed inflationary threat. In lay terms, I interpret this to mean that people are working much harder, causing economic growth, and they're in danger of spending their money, which is what the recession-hit shops want them to do. But the Bank and the City seem to think this is wrong, and that if people work harder they should be punished by having their mortgages increased.

  Harry Enfield

  Mean, Hard Work, Thinking

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• Gender based violence anywhere is a threat to peace and security everywhere.

  John F. Kerry

  Violence, Gender, Peace And Security

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• For years, even before 9/11, I've been trying to warn that the threat from amateur biolabs will ultimately turn out to be far more troublesome than leakage from military labs - perhaps even more costly and deadly than nuclear terrorism.

  Greg Bear

  Military, Nuclear Terrorism, Years

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• Typically, you get a year in prison for making a threat to assassinate the president.

  Megyn Kelly

  Years, President, Prison

  "Megyn Kelly reacts to Sandra Fluke". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. March 8, 2012.

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• To be able to detect the outbreak of avian flu anywhere in the world is going to require a partnership of several countries that will share information and samples, but it is important to remember a threat anywhere is a threat everywhere.

  Michael C. Burgess

  Country, Important, World

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• I think what we've learned is that the terrorist threat is serious, but it shifts. You cannot make a single person the sole focus of your counterterrorism.

  Paul Bremer

  Thinking, Focus, Serious

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• The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.

  Carol P. Christ

  Leaving, Movement, Growing

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• The hijab, or sikh turban, or Jewish skullcap are all explicit symbols, but they do not represent a threat or affront to others, and have no bearing on the competence, skills and intelligence of a person.

  Randa Abdel-Fattah

  Skills, Hijab, Turbans

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• We went into Iraq because Iraq posed a threat to the stability of the region and was engaged in the process of trying to develop weapons of mass destruction and had links to terrorists.

  Frank Carlucci

  Mass Destruction, Iraq, Trying

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• It follows that acceleration in the rate of change will result in an increasing need for reorganization. Reorganization is usually feared, because it means disturbance of the status quo, a potential threat to peoples vested interests in their jobs, and an upset to established ways of doing things. For these reasons, needed reorganization is often deferred. With a resulting loss in effectiveness and increase in costs.

  Marvin Bower

  Change, Jobs, Mean

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• I think Dario Ringach is a poster boy for the concept that the use of force or the threat of force is an effective means to stop people who abuse animals," "No strictly peaceful movement has succeeded in liberation," "I think the animal rights movement has been restrained in its use of force, mostly because people in the struggle are often people of privilege who aren't willing to risk losing that privilege.

  Jerry Vlasak

  Struggle, Mean, Animal

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• Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities: it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole, laboriously constructed intellectual edifice might collapse.

  Arthur Koestler

  Fear, Innovation, Intellectual

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• Our nonviolent tactics are not as effective. We ask nicely for years and get nothing. Someone makes a threat, and it works.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Years, Tactics

  "U.S. News & World Report" Magazine, April 8, 2002.

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• Decades ago, visitors from other planets warned us about the direction we were heading and offered to help. Instead, some of us interpreted their visits as a threat, and decided to shoot first and ask questions after. It is ironic that the US should be fighting monstrously expensive wars, allegedly to bring democracy to those countries, when it itself can no longer claim to be called a democracy when trillions, and I mean thousands of billions of dollars have been spent on black projects which both congress and the commander in chief have been kept deliberately in the dark.

  Paul Hellyer

  Country, War, Mean

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• There is no consensus in Israel regarding the two-state formula. We will not, under any circumstances, allow the establishment of a neighboring state that will be a genuine threat on our existence.

  Reuven Rivlin

  Israel, Two, States

  "Rivlin to Carter: No Israeli Consensus on '2 States'". www.israelnationalnews.com. June 16, 2009.

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