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• And so the danger for the housing industry is if we see interest rates rise.

  Franklin Raines

  Economy, Interest, Rate

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• I have grown to believe that there is no dangerous idea, which does not become less dangerous when written out in sincere and careful English.

  William Butler Yeats

  Believe, Ideas, Doe

  William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.443

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• Wise travelers always stop short before they come to danger.

  Laozi

  Wise, Traveler

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• Only when a republic's life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is wrong. There is no other time.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Republic, Life Is

  Mark Twain, John S. Tuckey (1972). “Mark Twain's Fables of Man”, p.392, Univ of California Press

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• My daughter, there are times of moral danger when the hardest virtuous resolution to form is flight, and when the most heroic bravery is flight.

  Charles Dickens

  Daughter, Bravery, Words Of Wisdom

  Charles Dickens (1868). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.275

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• Today we haven't the heart to expel the painters and poets from society because we refuse to admit to ourselves that there is any danger in keeping them in our midst.

  Pablo Picasso

  Heart, Today, Poet

  Elizabeth Cowling, Pablo Picasso (2002). “Picasso: style and meaning”, Phaidon Press

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• A good picture, any picture, has to be bristling with razor blades.

  Pablo Picasso

  Razors, Blades

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• My whole life has been spent walking by the side of a bottomless chasm, jumping from stone to stone. Sometimes I try to leave my narrow path and join the swirling mainstream of life, but I always find myself drawn inexorably back towards the chasm's edge, and there I shall walk until the day I finally fall into the abyss.

  Edvard Munch

  Fall, Jumping, Trying

  Ragna Thiis Stang, Edvard Munch (1979). “Edvard Munch: The Man and the Artist”

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• It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Courage, Stupid, Anticipation

  Sherlock Holmes in "The Adventure of the Final Problem" (1893).

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• Courage in danger is half the battle.

  Plautus

  Courage, Military, Battle

  "Pseudolus". Play by Plautus, Act I, scene 5, line 37, 191 B.C..

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• There is nothing more dangerous than a lazy parent.

  Wes Fesler

  Parenting, Lazy, Laziness

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• There is nothing more dangerous than a humiliated man.

  Nelson Mandela

  Men, Closed Minded, Humiliated

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• Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

  Aesop

  Reality, Focus And Concentration, Shadow

  "Aesop's Fables".

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• As soon as there is life there is danger.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Greatness, Danger In Life

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.301, University of Georgia Press

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• The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Life, Writing

  Speech in Indianapolis, Indiana, April 12, 1959.

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  I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

  Clara Barton

  Military, War, Nursing

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• In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Attitude, Fear

  George Bernard Shaw (1968). “Four Plays by Bernard Shaw”, Pocket Books

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• The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Happiness, Success

  'Die fröhliche Wissenschaft' (1882) bk. 4, sect. 283

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• The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear. It is the storm within which endangers him[,] not the storm without.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

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• The money can be a hindrance to someone like me because the danger is that you start thinking, 'Is that a $20 million take?' That kind of thing, and being self-critical.

  Jim Carrey

  Thinking, Self, Kind

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• I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.

  William Congreve

  Stupid People, Stupidity, Growing

  William. II Congreve William Wycherley (John Vanbrugh and Farquhar George), William. II Wycherley, William Congreve, George Farquhar, John Vanbrugh (1840). “Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840”, p.155

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• I am a danger to myself if I get angry.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Angry, Ifs

  "The Agitator" by Margaret Talbot, www.newyorker.com. June 5, 2006.

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• There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.

  Henry George

  Change, Growth, Blind

  Henry George (2006). “Social Problems”, p.7, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I think the world is full of evil people. I think in some ways we're in more danger now than before.

  Dean Koontz

  Thinking, Evil People, Literature

  "Contemplating Evil". Interview with Nick Gillespie and Lisa Snell, reason.com. November 1996.

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• When in doubt or danger, run in circles, scream and shout.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Running, Technology, Circles

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