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• The European model is in danger if we obliterate the principle of personal responsibility.

  Jacques Delors

  Responsibility, Europe, Principles

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• The commission members themselves were never briefed on Able Danger.

  Curt Weldon

  Able, Members

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• Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact notion of sincerity, and in the end coming to despise truth itself as something too cold, too blunt for his purpose -- as, in fact, not good enough for his insistent emotion. From laughter and tears the descent is easy to sniveling and giggles.

  Joseph Conrad

  Laughter, Lying, Exaggeration Is

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “The Napoleonic Novels: The Rover & Suspense: From the Renowned Author of The Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent and Under Western Eyes (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)”, p.400, e-artnow

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• The danger in media concentration comes not from the concentration, but instead from the feudalism that this concentration, tied to the change in copyright, produces.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Media, Produce, Concentration

  Lawrence Lessig “Free Culture”, Lulu.com

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• I made many studio albums and I think the danger of studio recording is that if you do not watch out, you come out with a perfectly sterile performance.

  Chuck Mangione

  Thinking, Albums, Watches

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• At the approach of danger two voices speak with equal force in the heart of man: one very reasonably tells the man to consider the nature of the danger and the means of avoiding it and the other, even more reasonable, says that it is too painful and harassing to think of the danger... better to turn aside from the painful subject till it has come, and to think of what is pleasant. In solitude a man generally yields to the first voice; in society to the second.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Mean, Heart, Men

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• My life would be in danger if I return to Mexico.

  Gloria Trevi

  Would Be, Mexico, Return

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• Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep'rate friends.

  Abraham Cowley

  Want, Equal, Rate

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• Washington is dangerously positioned between two Canadas, Canada Canada and California's Canada, Oregon.

  Stephen Colbert

  Two, Oregon, California

  TV Series "The Colbert Report", 2005–2015.

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• Aesthetic delectation is the danger to be avoided.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Aesthetic, Avoided

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• Prejudice is always dangerous.

  Wendy Beckett

  Prejudice, Dangerous

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• A living creature develops a destructive impulse when it wants to destroy a source of danger... The original motive is not pleasure in destruction... I destroy in a dangerous situation because I want to live and do not want to have any anxiety. In short, the impulse to destroy serves a primary biological will to live.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Dangerous Situations, Anxiety, Want

  "The Function of the Orgasm". Book by Wilhelm Reich, 1927.

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• A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice.

  Joyce Cary

  Tragedy, World, Injustice

  Joyce Cary, Alan Bishop (1976). “Selected essays”, Michael Joseph

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• Freedom is dangerous. Possibly crawling on all fours might be safer than standing upright, but we like the view better up there.

  Isabel Paterson

  Views, Might, Crawling

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• The absent danger greater still appears less fears he who is near the thing he fears.

  Samuel Daniel

  Absent, Stills, Greater

  Samuel Daniel (1718). “The Poetical Works of Mr. Samuel Daniel, Author of the English History: To which is Prefix'd, Memoirs of His Life and Writings”, p.283

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• There's more danger in the violence you don't face.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Faces, Violence

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• On the rock bound coast of New Brunswick the waves break incessantly. Every now and then comes a particularly dangerous wave that breaks viciously into the rock. It is called 'The Rage.' That's me.

  Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

  Rocks, Wave, Rage

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• Our training pushes us to develop a new set of instincts: instead of reacting to danger with a fight-or-flight adrenaline rush, we're trained to respond unemotionally by immediately prioritizing threats and methodically seeking to defuse them. We go from wanting to bolt for the exit to wanting to engage and understand what's going wrong, then fix it.

  Chris Hadfield

  Fighting, Training, Exit

  Chris Hadfield (2013). “An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth”, p.39, Pan Macmillan

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• The danger of terrorists and rogue states is compounded by the proliferation of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear weapons.

  Joe Lieberman

  Nuclear, Weapons, Rogues

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• Love is dangerous in the best way possible.

  Lindsay Lohan

  Love Is, Way, Dangerous

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• What pleases our mind is not dangerous enough.

  Kazuaki Tanahashi

  Mind, Enough, Please

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• Live intensely and dangerously. The world may not depend on your efforts, but you do.

  Eric Maisel

  Effort, World, May

  Eric Maisel (2000). “The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance”, p.105, Penguin

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• By stealthily teaching dependence, photography can turn out to be dangerous.

  Robert Genn

  Photography, Teaching, Turns

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• It is... treading on dangerous ground to paint the picturesque as I am at times doing.

  E. J. Hughes

  Paint, Treading, Picturesque

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• The art of painting is entering a new golden age. It is in no danger of becoming obsolete.

  Joseph Plaskett

  Art, Age, Entering

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