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• But it is important always to keep in mind that the danger of harming humans is not connected only or even mainly with telling secrets, there can be great danger in keeping secrets.

  Daniel Ellsberg

  Keeping Secrets, Mind, Important

  Live Chat with Ellsberg and Filmmakers, www.pbs.org. October 5, 2010.

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• Men in business are in as much danger from those at work under them as from those that work against them.

  Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

  Men, Artistic

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• ... the danger of illicit sex influences is, and always has been, in inverse proportion to the degree to which women approximatedto equality with men, in social dignity and in opportunity for public responsibility.

  Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

  Sex, Responsibility, Opportunity

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• There is a danger in being persuaded before one understands.

  Thomas F. Wilson

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• My fellow Americans, I must speak to you tonight about a mounting danger in Central America that threatens the security of the United States. This danger will not go away it will grow worse, much worse, if we fail to take action now.

  Ronald Reagan

  America, Going Away, United States

  Reagan, Ronald (1988). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1986”, p.352, Best Books on

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• The real danger in life is not death, but living an evil life.

  Socrates

  Real, Danger In Life, Evil

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• Tom Ridge announced a new color-coded alarm system. ... Green means everything's okay. Red means we're in extreme danger. And champagne-fuschia means we're being attacked by Martha Stewart.

  Conan O'Brien

  Mean, Color, Green

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• Where do your greatest dangers lie?--In pity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Pity

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• It is the duty of mankind on all suitable occasions to acknowledge their dependence on the Divine Being... Almighty God would mercifully interpose and still the rage of war among the nations... He would take this province under His protection, confound the designs and defeat the attempts of its enemies, and unite our hearts and strengthen our hands in every undertaking that may be for the public good, and for our defense and security in this time of danger.

  Benjamin Franklin

  War, Heart, Hands

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• ...words are some of the most powerful and important things I know....Language is the tool of love and the weapon of hatred. It's the bright red warning flag of danger--and the stone foundation of diplomacy and peace.

  Ani DiFranco

  Powerful, Hatred, Important

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• For a man to act himself, he must be perfectly free; otherwise he is in danger of losing all sense of responsibility or of self- respect.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Freedom, Integrity, Responsibility

  Henry David Thoreau (1894). “The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: With Bibliographical Introductions and Full Indexes”

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• This world has many rings, like Saturn, and we live now on the outmost of them all. None can say deliberately that he inhabits thesame sphere, or is contemporary, with the flower which his hands have plucked, and though his feet may seem to crush it, inconceivable spaces and ages separate them, and perchance there is no danger that he will hurt it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Crush, Nature, Hurt

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.306, Courier Corporation

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• Yet some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise, and wherever the vein of thought reaches down into the profound, there is no danger from vanity. Solemn friends will warn them of the danger of the head's being turned by the flourish of trumpets, but they can afford to smile.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Vanity, Profound, Veins

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.56, Courier Corporation

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• If you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly do it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Done, Ought, Ifs

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (1927). “The Secret of Father Brown”

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• For more than twenty-five years my mind had been deeply troubled by the fact that these mechanical and scientific achievements ofman had outrun his intellectual and spiritual power. ...Throughout the Second World War this terrible problem hung in the back of my mind. As I write these words the problem and the danger are as threatening as ever. We hope our nation will survive, but in its effort to survive will it transform itself intellectually and spiritually into the image of the thing against which we fought?

  Virginia Gildersleeve

  Education, Spiritual, War

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• There was danger at times that women might not be judged by the highest standards, but more leniently because of their sex. "She is a remarkably good chemist--for a woman," you might hear a man say. It seemed to me essential, if the ablest young women scholars were to achieve the best work of which they were capable, that they should be held to the most rigorous standards. ...To advance, a woman must do at least as good work as her male colleagues, usually better.

  Virginia Gildersleeve

  Sex, Men, Males

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• In estimating the adversities of life, we would seldom have much reason to complain of the evils we suffer, did we understand the dangers we daily escape.

  Norm MacDonald

  Adversity, Evil, Suffering

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• I perfectly understand the particular attention which you pay to the question of nuclear energy, and fully realize the possible dangers and catastrophes which might result for mankind from an irresponsible attitude. In this field my wish is for Iran to put all her efforts towards the peaceful use of atomic energy. We shall continue to co-operate with all the nations of the world to attain this end in the interests of human society.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Attitude, Iran, Effort

  Message to the White House in April 1977. "The Shah's Story". Book by Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, pp. 67-68, 1980.

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• Europe resolved a great problem-the problem of the Zionist danger. The Zionists, who constituted a strong political party in Europe, caused much disorder there. Since they had a lot of property and controlled an empire of propaganda, they made the European governments helpless.

  Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

  Strong, Party, Europe

  Friday sermon on International Jerusalem Day, October 5, 2007.

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• You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger. Cheerful endurance of hardships and contempt of surroundings become a virtue in a pioneer. Comfort is a comparatively new thing in the United States.

  Ida Tarbell

  Country, Suffering, Cheerful

  Ida Minerva Tarbell (1916). “New Ideals in Business, an Account of Their Practice and Their Effects Upon Men and Profits”

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• Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of those who mutilate the flesh!

  Paul the Apostle

  Dog, Evil, Flesh

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• A certain secret jealousy of the British Minister is always lurking in the breast of every American Senator, if he is truly democratic; for democracy, rightly understood, is the government of the people, by the people, for the benefit of Senators, and there is always a danger that the British Minister may not understand this political principle as he should.

  Henry Adams

  Government, People, Political

  Henry Adams (2015). “Democracy”, p.18, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• When peace has been broken anywhere, the peace of all countries is in danger.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Country, Broken, Has Beens

  1939 Radio broadcast, 3 Sep.

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• The Nazi danger to our Western world has long ceased to be a mere possibility. The danger is here now--not only from a military enemy but from an enemy of all law, all liberty, all morality, all religion.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Military, Law, Long

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (2008). “Fireside chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: radio addresses to the American people about the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, 1933-1944”, Red & Black Pub

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• It is at the approach of extreme danger when a hollow puppet can accomplish nothing, that power falls into the mighty hands of nature, of the spirit giant-born, who listens only to himself, and knows nothing of compacts.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Fall, Accomplish Nothing, Hands

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