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• We are threatened by the now so we jump to the past or the future.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Past

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• Marriage as an institution is not so much threatened by same-sex couples as it is by heterosexuals' increasing indifference to it.

  Mike Huckabee

  Sex, Couple, Indifference

  Mike Huckabee (2015). “God, Guns, Grits, and Gravy”, p.91, St. Martin's Press

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• It sucks for me, because now I have to not be as crazy as I am on the Internet. Which totally sucks, because it's not going to be fun anymore. But the repercussions are really bad. Like, Taylor Swift fans are really crazy. They threatened to murder me and stuff. It's really bizarre, and disgusting. They're the worst people in the world.

  Diplo

  Fun, Crazy, People

  "Diplo Says He Knows Taylor Swift’s ‘Secrets’ And He’s ‘Scared For His Life’" By Cavan Sieczkowski, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 23, 2015.

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• I was no longer troubled when he pulled out a machete in a crowded bar, tried to pick up schoolgirls, or threatened to scalp us, then rip off our heads and scoop out our brains.

  Tahir Shah

  Fear, Rip, Brain

  Tahir Shah (2013). “House of the Tiger King Paperback”, p.65, Lulu.com

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• The most important fact of this century is not that Earth is threatened in many ways, It is that for the first time in all of its history a decisive means of protecting the home planet exists. It is by using space.

  William E. Burrows

  Home, Mean, Space

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• At this stage of my life I would rather try and have some small impact within a company and suffer through those things than make such a big stink that nobody can trust to work with you. It's very important in an environment of a big institution that people don't feel threatened that you're going to expose them in any way.

  Gelsey Kirkland

  Impact, People, Suffering

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• Every major industry was once a growth industry. But some that are now riding a wave of growth enthusiasm are very much in the shadow of decline. Others that are thought of as seasoned growth industries have actually stopped growing. In every case, the reason growth is threatened, slowed, or stopped is not because the market is saturated. It is because there has been a failure of management.

  Theodore Levitt

  Growth, Marketing, Shadow

  Theodore Levitt (2008). “Marketing Myopia”, p.1, Harvard Business Press

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• We are disturbed about the effect of the Jewish influence on our press, radio, and motion pictures. It may become very serious. (Fulton) Lewis told us of one instance where the Jewish advertising firms threatened to remove all their advertising from the Mutual System if a certain feature was permitted to go on the air. The threat was powerful enough to have the feature removed.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Powerful, Air, Goes On

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• On a day when Osama bin Laden again threatened the United States and our allies, it is disturbing to realize that John Kerry neither recognizes nor understands the murderous ideology of our enemies and the threat they pose to our nation.

  Marc Racicot

  Enemy, Allies, United States

  "Kerry: Bush uses terrorism threat for campaign" by Mike Rosell, www.cnn.com. April 16, 2004.

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• No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.

  Andrew Vachss

  Children, Doe, Politician

  FaceBook post by Andrew Vachss from Sep 10, 2011

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• I believe God did intend, in giving us intelligence, to give us the opportunity to investigate and appreciate the wonders of His creation. He is not threatened by our scientific adventures.

  Francis Collins

  Believe, Adventure, Opportunity

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• Guys don't understand great art. They don't care that sometimes the camera has power beyond the photographer to record emotion that only the heart can see. They're threatened when the camera jumps ahead of me. Todd Kovich was pissed when I brought my Nikon to the prom, but I'd missed too many transcendent shots over the years to ever take a chance of missing one again. A prom, I told him, had a boundless supply of photogenic bozos who could be counted on to do something base.

  Joan Bauer

  Art, Years, Guy

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• Bonds despite their ridiculous yields will not easily be threatened with a new bear market.

  Bill Gross

  Yield, Bears, Ridiculous

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• The thing that makes countries want to pursue some kind of nuclear deterrent is precisely the fact that they feel threatened.

  Stephen Walt

  Country, Nuclear, Want

  "Can Sanctions End Iran's Nuclear Ambitions?". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. November 21, 2011.

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• We have sworn, and not lightly. This oath we will keep. We are threatened with many evils, and treason not least; but one thing is not said: that we shall suffer from cowardice, from cravens or the fear of cravens. Therefore I say that we will go on, and this doom I add: the deeds that we shall do shall be the matter of song until the last days of Arda.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Song, Evil, Suffering

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Silmarillion”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The more closely [the German army] converged on [Stalingrad], the narrower became their scope for tactical manoeuvre as a lever in loosening resistance. By contrast, the narrowing of the frontage made it easier for the defender to switch his local reserves to any threatened point on the defensive arc.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, Army, Levers

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• Two great areas of deafness existed in the South: White Southerners had no ears to hear that which threatened their Dream. And colored Southerners had none to hear that which could reduce their anger.

  Sarah-Patton Boyle

  Dream, Anger, Two

  Sarah Patton Boyle (2016). “The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian’s Stand in Time of Transition”, p.181, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• I can tell when men are threatened by my height.

  Allison Janney

  Men, Height, I Can

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• But I really believe it is in America's interest as well as that of the free world more generally to stop Iran from getting its hands on nuclear weapons. This regime has threatened to wipe Israel off the map and bring about a world without America, and either of those is a really bad prospect.

  Frank Gaffney

  Believe, Hands, Iran

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• If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk.

  Gary Ackerman

  America, Risk, Democracy

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• Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened with extinction, don't do anything special to avoid it.

  George C. Williams

  Special, Extinction, Lineage

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• Without God we are but bruised reeds, ever threatened by the prospect of being crushed by life’s uncaring millstone. Without God we are nothing, our lives worthless, our days an endless circular tread. Without God we stand condemned, doomed to a life without the precious gift of hope.

  T. Davis Bunn

  Reeds, Uncaring, Precious Gifts

  T. Davis Bunn, Isabella Bunn (2004). “The Innocent Libertine (Heirs of Acadia Book #2)”, p.200, Bethany House

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• Churchmen are quick to defend religious freedom; lawyers were never so universally aroused as by President Roosevelt's Court bill; newspapers are most alert to civil liberties when there is a hint of press censorship in the air. And educators become perturbed at every effort to curb academic freedom. But too seldom do all of these become militant when ostensibly the rights of only one group are threatened. They do not always react to the truism that when the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes.

  Earl Warren

  Religious, Rights, Air

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• You have despoiled churches. You have threatened every corporation and endowment in the country. You have examined into everybodys affairs. You have criticised every profession and vexed every trade. No one is certain of his property, and nobody knows what duties he may have to perform to-morrow. This is the policy of confiscation as compared with that of concurrent endowment.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Country, Church, May

  Benjamin Disraeli (earl of Beaconsfield.) (1882). “Selected speeches, ed. by T.E. Kebbel”

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• The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last moment. Their thinly veiled symbolic meaning might be translated thus: We are innocent of wrongdoing. We are attacked by unforeseeable forces come to harm us. We are, thus, innocent even of negligence. Though those forces are insuperable, chance will come to our aid and we shall emerge victorious.

  David Mamet

  Symbolic Meaning, Perception, Tragedy

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