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• If you wait until those weapons pose a direct, clear, present danger to the United States, you've probably waited too long.

  John Sununu

  Long, Waiting, United States

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• Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.

  Paul Valery

  Order, Two, World

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• Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.

  Thornton Wilder

  World, Razors, Good Things

  Thornton Wilder (1961). “Twayne's United States Authors Series”

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• Danger breeds best on too much confidence.

  Pierre Corneille

  Confidence, Too Much, Too Much Confidence

  "Le Cid". Book by Pierre Corneille, 1636.

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• There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.

  John Churton Collins

  Success, Fear, Desire

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• There's a danger of the Internet just becoming loud, ugly and boring with a thousand voices screaming for attention.

  Matt Drudge

  Voice, Attention, Ugly

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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.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Writing, Positive Thinking, Opportunity

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• In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.

  Daniel Boone

  Cowboy, Situation, Exposed

  William Henry BOGART, Daniel BOONE (1856). “Daniel Boone, and the Hunters of Kentucky. (Seventh thousand.) [With plates.]”, p.75

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• I have so many opinions about everything it just comes out during my music. It's a battle for me. I try not to be preachy. That's a real danger.

  Neil Young

  Music, Real, Battle

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• There's a real danger in doing a sequel. There are some benefits, but that all hinges on how well you execute. Quite frankly, most sequels don't execute well

  Donnie Wahlberg

  Real, Benefits, Wells

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• Iran has long sponsored terrorists who carry out homicide bombings in Israeli cities. However, it is a mistake to believe the danger Iran poses is directed at Israel alone.

  John Doolittle

  Mistake, Believe, Iran

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• Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.

  Sakya Pandita

  Change, Happiness, Mean

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• There was a danger that skeptics and opponents would misread those likelihood ratio tests as rejections of an entire class of models, which of course they were not.

  Thomas J. Sargent

  Class, Rejection, Opponents

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• Assuming that his talent can survive the increasing strain, there is one scarcely avoidable danger that lies ahead of the pupil on his road to mastery.

  Eugen Herrigel

  Lying, Mastery, Assuming

  Eugen Herrigel (1964). “Zen”

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• The biggest danger of Hollywood becoming a purely corporate town resides in the creative process.

  Peter Bart

  Creativity, Creative, Hollywood

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• I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.

  Jean Genet

  Lying, Names, Giving

  Jean Genet, Edmund White (1993). “The selected writings of Jean Genet”, Ecco Pr

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• Do you know anything on earth which has not a dangerous side if it is mishandled and exaggerated?

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Earth, Sides, Knows

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.1878, Delphi Classics

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• If I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything.

  William Faulkner

  Hate, Envy, Bird

  1956 Interview in Paris Review, Spring.

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• In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.

  James Madison

  Respect, Rights, Majority

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• Some often repent, yet never reform; they resemble a man traveling in a dangerous path, who frequently starts and stops, but never turns back.

  Bonnell Thornton

  Men, Reform, Path

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• The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.

  Simone Weil

  Faith, Lying, Soul

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.81, Routledge

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• The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

  Helen Keller

  Strong Women, Fear, Avoiding Pain

  Let Us Have Faith (1940)

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• The problem comes when you say that danger is part of the equation. Then you don't do any more work on safety. That shouldn't happen.

  Damon Hill

  Athlete, Safety, Problem

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• Don't play for safety - it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

  Hugh Walpole

  Inspirational, Courage, Work

  Hugh Walpole (2007). “Fortitude”, p.350, 1st World Publishing

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• Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wisdom, Peace, Kings

  "Letter from Birmingham Jail," 16 Apr. 1963

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