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• The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Life, Leadership, Determination

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• We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

  David Sarnoff

  Death, Fear, Funeral

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• Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sea, Brave, Secret

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.131

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• Naturally, the common people don't want war ... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.

  Hermann Goring

  Country, Peace, Military

  Interview in Göring's jail cell, April 18, 1946. "Nuremberg Diary". Book by Gustave Gilbert, 1947.

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• A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

  Seneca the Younger

  Fear, Philosophical, Light

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you are out of trouble, watch for danger.

  Sophocles

  Advice, Watches, Trouble

  David Grene, Sophocles (1959). “Sophocles”, [Chicago] : University of Chicago Press

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• Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger.

  Christopher Lasch

  Hygiene, Remains, Disintegration

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• Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Fog, Sun, Mystery

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.182

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• The danger, I find, is that you can become too formulaic, like some commissioned portrait painters who develop a methodology.

  Jamie Wyeth

  Portraits, Methodology, Painter

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• The act, the doing, the taking up of paint and putting it down - the immediate impact upon your psyche or soul that occurs when you do that - has so much danger in it.

  Milton Resnick

  Impact, Soul, Paint

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• Sometimes, in a portrait, I go straight in with paint onto canvas... Other than riding my bike up and down the hills around here, it is the most dangerous thing I do... like tightrope-walking without a safety net!

  David Cobley

  Safety, Portraits, Riding

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• We should never so entirely avoid danger as to appear irresolute and cowardly; but, at the same time, we should avoid unnecessarily exposing ourselves to danger, than which nothing can be more foolish.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Foolish, Should, Exposing

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1902). “De Officiis”

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• Danger for danger's sake is senseless.

  Leigh Hunt

  Sake

  Leigh Hunt (1870). “Table-talk: To which are Added Imaginary Conversations of Pope and Swift”, p.90

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• I believe the world is increasingly in danger of becoming split into groups which cannot communicate with each other, which no longer think of each other as members of the same species.

  Bill Vaughan

  Believe, Thinking, Groups

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• The petition of an empty hand is dangerous.

  Bill Vaughan

  Hands, Empty, Petitions

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• In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Aristocracy, Literature, Ethics

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• Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.

  Euripides

  Eye, Sunshine, Men

  Euripides (2013). “Iphigenia in Tauris,, alone by the shore”, p.18, Lulu.com

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• The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.

  W. C. Fields

  Men, Lucky, Alive

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• Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Death, Art, Honor

  Ernest Hemingway (2002). “Death in the Afternoon”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.

  John F. Kennedy

  Freedom, Responsibility, Long

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

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• I think if I were to go back on stage I might be in great danger of acting.

  Ben Kingsley

  Thinking, Acting, Might

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• At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Suicide, Spring, Civil War

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.32, Penguin

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• Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Middle, Young

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• Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Government, Elements, Literature

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• Everybody is just a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way.

  John Mayer

  Way, Stranger, My Own

  Song: Why Georgia, 2001

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