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  The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.

  Thucydides

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Thucydides, Sir Richard Winn Livingstone (1960). “The History of the Peloponnesian War”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.

  John Stuart Mill

  Success, Time, Work

  John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.202, Hackett Publishing

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• The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Running, Quiet, Persons

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1967). “Sept. 1964-May 1949”

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• We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Military, Pearls

  Ronald Reagan, Mark J. Green, Gail MacColl (1983). “There he goes again: Ronald Reagan's reign of error”, Pantheon

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• There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.

  H. G. Wells

  Suffering, Purpose, Revolution

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• Thank Heaven! The crisis /The danger is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last /, and the fever called ''Living'' is conquered at last.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Inspiring, Death, Past

  1850 'ForAnnie'.

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• Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing.

  Adolphe Monod

  Inspirational, Dream, Goal

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• The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

  Israel Zangwill

  Life, Forgiveness, Memories

  Israel Zangwill (1921). “The Voice of Jerusalem”

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• The good Christian should beware the mathematician and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of hell.

  Saint Augustine

  Inspirational, Life, Education

  "Mathematics in Western Culture". Book by Morris Kline, 1953.

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• Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Inspirational, Courage, Men

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.92

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• The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.

  Hermann Goring

  Country, Peace, Freedom

  Quoted in Gustave M. Gilbert, Nuremberg Diary (1947).

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• The most dangerous thing is illusion.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Illusion, Dangerous, Dangerous Things

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• Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

  William Shakespeare

  Honor, East, West

  William Shakespeare (1856). “King Henry IV, pt. 1-2. King Henry the fifth”, p.29

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• The path is smooth that leadeth on to danger.

  William Shakespeare

  Risk, Path, Smooth

  William Shakespeare (1858). “Shakespeare's comedies, histories, tragedies, and poems”, p.509

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• As an unmarried woman, I was thought to be a danger.

  Grace Kelly

  Married Women, Unmarried

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• The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers

  Jacques Barzun

  Fiction, May, Crime

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• We don't mind that we still have troops in Germany, or that we still have troops in Japan or Korea. But they are not in danger, and we know that they are in danger in Iraq.

  Thelma Drake

  Japan, Korea, Iraq

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• Able Danger consisted of approximately 20 direct individuals working for Special Forces in Tampa, Florida. The total amount of people working for Able Danger was 20.

  Curt Weldon

  Florida, People, Special

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• McGovern is so far left that he is in danger of falling off the earth.

  John G. Schmitz

  Falling In Love, Earth, Falling Off

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• Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria.

  Richard Stallman

  Fighting, Patents, Malaria

  Newsforge, September 09, 2004.

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• The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.

  Frank Herbert

  Lying, Path, Proximity

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.69, Penguin

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• But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference.

  William Godwin

  Parent, Care, Youth

  William Godwin (1823). “The Enquirer”, p.60

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• Privacy was in sufficient danger before TV appeared, and TV has given it its death blow.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Blow, Tvs, Privacy

  Louis Kronenberger (1972). “A Mania for Magnificence”

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• Safety's just danger, out of place.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Safety

  Song: Honestly Now, Album: She, 1994

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• The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

  Lucan

  Evil, Situation, Apprehension

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 158-60, Pharsalia, VII. 104, 1922.

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