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• History tells us that the threat to prosperity is not debt but socialism.

  George Gilder

  Debt, Prosperity, Socialism

  George Gilder (2013). “Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World”, p.198, Regnery Publishing

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• The language of science—and especially of a science of man—is, necessarily, anti-individualistic, and hence a threat to human freedom and dignity.

  Thomas Szasz

  Men, Dignity, Language

  Thomas Stephen Szasz, Karl Kraus (1990). “Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry”, p.44, Syracuse University Press

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• Maybe you reach a certain point in evolution where boredom is the greatest threat to your survival. Maybe this isn't a planetary takeover at all, but a game. Like a kid pulling wings off flies.

  Rick Yancey

  Kids, Games, Wings

  Rick Yancey (2014). “The Infinite Sea: The Second Book of the 5th Wave”, p.133, Penguin

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• Rowing, particularly sculling, inflicts on the individual in every race a level of pain associated with few other sports. There was certainly pain in football during a head-on collision, pain in other sports on the occasion of a serious injury. That was more the threat of pain; in rowing there was the absolute guarantee of it every time.

  David Halberstam

  Sports, Football, Pain

  David Halberstam (2012). “The Amateurs: The Story of Four Young Men and Their Quest for an Olympic Gold Medal”, p.73, Open Road Media

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• Then came a bigger fear. Not the threat of imminent injury, but the fear that if I didn't go back up, I would be a chickenshit forever.

  John Sherman

  Climbing, Forever, Would Be

  John Sherman (2012). “Sherman Exposed: Slightly Censored Climbing Stories”, p.176, The Mountaineers Books

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• Military confrontation is not a suitable alternative in confronting terror and current security threats.

  Jalal Talabani

  Military, Alternatives, Currents

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• While I was the mayor of Bogotá, I received occasional death threats. Therefore, I had to use a bullet-proof vest. I made a hole right where my heart is. The hole was in the shape of a heart. I believe this kind of gesture, gave me indeed more protection.

  Antanas Mockus

  Believe, Heart, Use

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• When we encounter an unexpected challenge of threat the only way to save ourselves is to hold on tight to the people around us and not let go.

  Shawn Achor

  Letting Go, People, Challenges

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• Sexual reproduction exists solely as a means to defeat parasites. By mixing male and female genes, sex produces offspring not exactly like either the male or female - making each generation different from the last, and presenting a moving target to intruders intent on compromising this system. ... Even with this variation, parasites continue to pose a threat... and parasitism evolves and moves through any system - not just living things. The less variation there is in a system, the more readily parasites will evolve to infest it.

  Daniel Suarez

  Sex, Moving, Mean

  Daniel Suarez (2009). “Daemon”, p.425, Penguin

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• Most distracting of all, though, was not the threat of danger but the allure of beauty.

  Michel Faber

  Danger, Allure

  Michel Faber (2001). “Under the Skin”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Punk-rock gave music back to people. For a long time, when I was very young, I went to go see arena rock bands. I was 16 and it was all I could get in to see, legally. And I saw Led Zeppelin and Ted Nugent and Van Halen and all that. Me and [Minor Threat and Fugazi vocalist] Ian MacKaye would go to these concerts, and it was fun.

  Henry Rollins

  Fun, Rocks, Long

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• The negative penalties of the Old Testament case laws were not harsh but just, not a threat to society but rather the necessary judicial foundation of civic freedom… the Old Testament was harsh on criminals because it was soft on victims.

  Gary North

  Law, Foundation, Criminals

  Gary North (1990). “Victim's rights: the biblical view of civil justice”, Inst for Christian Economics

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• The question eventually must be raised: Is it a criminal offense to take the name of the Lord in vain? When people curse their parents, it unquestionably is a capital crime (Ex. 21:17). The son or daughter is under the lawful jurisdiction of the family. The integrity of the family must be maintained by the threat of death. Clearly, cursing God (blasphemy) is a comparable crime, and is therefore a capital crime (Lev. 24:16).

  Gary North

  Daughter, Integrity, Son

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• Books were despised by the Viking Tribes, as they were seen as a horrible civilizing influence and a threat to the barbarian culture.

  Cressida Cowell

  Book, Culture, Barbarians

  Cressida Cowell (2017). “How To Train Your Dragon: A Hero's Guide to Deadly Dragons”, p.15, Hachette UK

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• I did not know that the first step in any domestic violence relationship is to seduce and charm the victim. I also did not know that the second step is to isolate the victim. The next step in the domestic violence pattern is to introduce the threat of violence and see how she reacts. We victims know something you [non-victims] usually don't. It's incredibly dangerous to leave an abuser, because the final step in the domestic violence pattern is to 'kill her'. Over 70% of domestic violence murders happens after the victim has ended the relationship.

  Leslie Morgan Steiner

  Domestic Violence, Next Steps, Finals

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• Iran’s President openly talks about wiping Israel off the map. The Iranian nuclear program is a threat, not just to my country, but to the entire region. And it’s incumbent upon us all to do what needs to be done to keep from proliferating.

  Mark Regev

  Country, Israel, Iran

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• I do take the threat of terrorism seriously. You cannot eliminate that threat or diminish that threat by bombing a country.

  Howard Zinn

  Country, Terrorism, Bombing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• No one will expect the British Government or the Government of India to give way to threats of violence, disorder and chaos; and, indeed, representatives of large sections of Indian opinion have expressly warned us that we must not do so.

  Stafford Cripps

  Government, Giving, India

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• If you are not living with a whole heart now, the end of the world poses no threat; your life is already gone. Life is only as valuable as our presence to enjoy it. To miss the beauty of the moment because you are preparing to protect yourself from the next one, is to trade a precious gem for a cheap trinket.

  Alan Cohen

  Heart, Missing, Gone

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• People don't hijack planes anymore because that old system of hijacking in order to barter for a prison release or get to a different country no longer works, exactly, because 9/11 recoded the hostage's interpretation of a hijack. If a hijacker isn't trying to use the plane as a missile, then he is in danger of being killed by the hostages. There is no minor terror threat anymore. No mid-level terrorism.

  Heidi Julavits

  Country, Order, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• God is not pleased by blood – and not acting reasonably is contrary to God's nature. Faith is born of the soul, not the body. Whoever would lead someone to faith needs the ability to speak well and to reason properly, without violence and threats... To convince a reasonable soul, one does not need a strong arm, or weapons of any kind, or any other means of threatening a person with death.

  Manuel II Palaiologos

  Strong, Mean, Blood

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• The bitter attacks I faced were far worse than any fighter I ever faced in the ring. The caustic remarks, the threats to injure me, the shots at my character-fighting those were my toughest battle.

  Jack Johnson

  Character, Fighting, Battle

  "Interview with The Legends of Boxing Part 1". Interview with Monte D. Cox, coxscorner.tripod.com.

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• Every threat to the family is a threat to society itself. So protect your families! See in them your country’s greatest treasure and nourish them always by prayer and the grace of the sacraments.

  Pope Francis

  Country, Prayer, Greatest Treasure

  Pope Francis' Speech during the Meeting with Families at the Mall of Asia Arena in Manila, Philippines, w2.vatican.va. January 16, 2015.

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• Conflict acting on intelligence creates imagination. Faced with conflict, creatures are forced to imagine what will happen, where the next threat will come from. If there has never been conflict, imagination never develops. Wits arise in answer to danger, to pain, to tragedy. No one ever got smarter eating easy apples.

  Sheri S. Tepper

  Pain, Apples, Imagination

  Sheri S. Tepper (2013). “Sheri S Tepper SF Gateway Omnibus: After Long Silence, Shadow's End, Six Moon Dance”, p.900, Hachette UK

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• Now this brings me to my main topic - our military strength - more specifically, how to stay strong against threat from outside, without undermining the economic health that supports our security.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Stay Strong, Military, War

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958”, p.326, Best Books on

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