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• I am not a fan of the cupcake image. This idea that you can distract a girl with something frivolous like a cake or shoes or handbags, and she won't be a threat to men.

  Joanna Trollope

  Girl, Men, Cupcakes

  Interview with Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. June 02, 2012.

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• Whoever has an original thing to say, it is sort of a threat to the status quo.

  Steve Lacy

  Uprising, Status Quo, Originals

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• The biggest threat to this country isn't the Russians. It's our own inability to make democracy or capitalism work.

  Phil Donahue

  Country, Democracy, Inability

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• It's so easy to demagogue the issue and make someone who speaks out against the internal-combustion engine sound like an insane communist, when the truth is that the internal-combustion engine is the biggest threat to my life in the next 25 years, in terms of what it's doing to our environment and how it's depleting the ozone layer and so forth.

  Bill Maher

  Speaks Out, Issues, Ozone

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Most bands people have side projects and it's not considered a death threat as it was say, with The Beatles.

  Stevie Nicks

  People, Band, Sides

  Source: www.npr.org

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• American agriculture is badly in need of diversity. Another threat to the food system of course is the likelihood that petroleum is not going to get any cheaper.

  Wendell Berry

  Agriculture, Diversity, Needs

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• The threat to men of great dignity, privilege and pretense is not from the radicals they revile; it is from accepting their own myth. Exposure to reality remains the nemesis of the great -- a little understood thing.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Reality, Men, Littles

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1981). “A life in our times: memoirs”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Financial capacity and political perspicacity are inversely correlated. Long-run salvation by men of business has never been highly regarded if it means disturbance of orderly life and convenience in the present. So inaction will be advocated in the present even though it means deep trouble in the future. Here, at least equally with Communism, lies the threat to Capitalism. It is what causes men who know that things are going quite wrong to say that things are fundamentally sound.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Running, Lying, Mean

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1997). “The Great Crash, 1929”, p.194, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you look at great human civilizations, from the Roman Empire to the Soviet Union, you will see that most do not fail simply due to external threats but because of internal weakness, corruption or a failure to manifest the values and ideals they espouse.

  Cory Booker

  Civilization, Weakness, Looks

  "Brick Towers" by Cory Booker, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 11, 2005.

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• While I agree that homegrown terrorism and the jihadist threat deserve continuing attention, a single-minded approach ignores all other threats.

  Bennie Thompson

  Attention, Terrorism, Continuing

  "Terrorists are not just Muslims" by Bennie Thompson, www.politico.com. January 27, 2011.

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• Devastation could arise insidiously, rather than suddenly, through unsustainable pressure on energy supplies, food, water and other natural resources. Indeed, these pressures are the prime 'threats without enemies' that confront us.

  Martin Rees

  Water, Enemy, Devastation

  "The global village will have its village idiots". The European Interview, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. December 13, 2012.

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• In the case of climate change, the threat is long-term and diffuse and requires broad international action for the benefit of people decades in the future. And in politics, the urgent always trumps the important, and that is what makes it a very difficult and challenging issue.

  Martin Rees

  Issues, Long, People

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• The pace of change and the threat of disruption creates tremendous opportunities.

  Steve Case

  Opportunity, Pace, Disruption

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• Our approach to existential risks cannot be one of trial-and-error. There is no opportunity to learn from errors. The reactive approach - see what happens, limit damages, and learn from experience - is unworkable. Rather, we must take a proactive approach. This requires foresight to anticipate new types of threats and a willingness to take decisive preventive action and to bear the costs (moral and economic) of such actions.

  Nick Bostrom

  Opportunity, Errors, Risk

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• I have never written that there is a threat of fascism in America. I always considered the idea overwrought. But now I believe there really is such a threat - and it will come draped not in an American flag, but in the name of tolerance and health.

  Dennis Prager

  Believe, Names, Ideas

  "Tolerance, Health and Fascism". townhall.com. August 27, 2013.

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• I think a lot of programs, policies have been put in place since 9/11, have prevented a 9/11-style attack. On the other hand, I think the threat has become greater, not lesser.

  Michael McCaul

  Thinking, Hands, Style

  "State of the Union with Candy Crowley", www.cnn.com. December 8, 2013.

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• Pose a political threat to Business As Usual, and sooner or later, mostly sooner, someone will try to kill you.

  Alexander Cockburn

  Political, Trying, Usual

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• Seeing Anonymous primarily as a cybersecurity threat is like analyzing the breadth of the antiwar movement and 1960s counterculture by focusing only on the Weathermen.

  Yochai Benkler

  Movement, Analyzing, Weathermen

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• There are no term limits on His reign. He has always been King and He always will be King. There is no death that threatens the perpetuity of His sovereign authority. There is no usurping of power by a lesser rival to His throne. There are no coups, no revolutions (at least, none that succeed). There is no threat of impeachment. He is a King who rules eternally.

  Sam Storms

  Kings, Reign, Limits

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• I wish I could avoid the people who have threatened me. My favorite threat is that I will be thrown in the River Miljacka, which is at most knee-deep, with my feet bound in cement.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Feet, Rivers, People

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• The only acceptable response to the threat of lethal violence is immediate and savage counterattack. If you resist, you just may get killed. If you don't resist you almost certainly will get killed. It is a tough choice, but there is only one right answer.

  Jeff Cooper

  Choices, Savages, Answers

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• Today is a time of turbulence and stagnation, of threat and promise from a competitor: the magic, omnivorous videocassette recorder (VCR). In other words, it is business as usual.

  Richard Corliss

  Vcr, Magic, Promise

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• If (the West) shows its rigidity by making unjust decisions and putting their threats into practice, the Iranian people will not be the only ones to pay the price.

  Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

  Pay The Price, Practice, People

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• I think if you looked at the kind of ebb and flow of supernatural fiction and horror fiction, it does seem to be more popular in times when were hammered over the head daily with threats from all angles, very real threats.

  Michael Koryta

  Real, Thinking, Ebb And Flow

  "Sanctuary Of Suspense: A Lighthouse On 'The Ridge'". "Weekend Edition" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. July 10, 2011.

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• John Kerry told Tom Ridge he was too busy to receive a Homeland Security briefing. I thought that was odd, since you're not supposed to ignore terrorist threats until after you become president.

  David Letterman

  President, Busy, Odd

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