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  The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

  Michelangelo

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

  James Madison

  Freedom, Real, War

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.49, University of Virginia Press

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• No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Art, Made, Known

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• Out of this nettle - danger - we pluck this flower - safety.

  William Shakespeare

  Teacher, Appreciation, Flower

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 2, sc. 3, l. [11]

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• He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger.

  Salvatore Quasimodo

  Epic, Men, Order

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• The state is in danger of falling into disrepute due to the evidence of its inadequate resources.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Fall, States, Resources

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• For danger levels man and brute And all are fellows in their need.

  John Dryden

  Men, Needs, Levels

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• Man could escape danger only by renouncing adventure, by abandoning that which has given to the human condition its unique character and genius among the rest of living things.

  Rene Dubos

  Adventure, Character, Unique

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• Crying wolf is a real danger.

  David Attenborough

  Real, Cry, Reality

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• Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Doubt, Denial, May

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• The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

  Edmund Burke

  Liberty, Libertarian, Internet

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.3631, Delphi Classics

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• The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger.

  George W. Bush

  Shadow, Allies, United States

  Third Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 20 January 2004

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• Reading without thinking will confuse you.Thinking without reading will place you in danger.

  Confucius

  Reading, Humility, Thinking

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• Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow.

  Dorothy Thompson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Meaningful

  Dorothy Thompson (1957). “The Courage to be Happy”

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• Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Creativity, Procrastination, Design

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.199, Wordsworth Editions

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• No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

  Heraclitus

  Encounters, Doe, Prosperity

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• Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

  Thomas Huxley

  Leadership, Sports, Freedom

  'Collected Essays' vol. 3 (1895) 'On Elementary Instruction in Physiology' (written 1877)

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• To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.

  Og Mandino

  Life, Thinking, Seize The Day

  Og Mandino (1986). “Mission: success!”, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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• Never was anything great achieved without danger.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Success, Philosophical

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• While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.

  Lewis Carroll

  Respect, Laughter, Exercise

  Lewis Carroll (2008). “The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll”, p.352, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Courage, Survival, Steel

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• Yes, my consuming desire is to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, barroom regulars - to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recording - all this is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always supposedly in danger of assault and battery. My consuming interest in men and their lives is often misconstrued as a desire to seduce them, or as an invitation to intimacy. Yes, God, I want to talk to everybody as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.

  Sylvia Plath

  Girl, Sleep, Men

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• The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

  Alfred Adler

  Self Esteem, Life Is Good, Danger In Life

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• He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Women, Wife, Wallets

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