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• At some fundamental level, religion does not allow for compromise. It insists on the impossible. If God has spoken, then followers are expected to live up to God's edicts, regardless of the consequences. To base one's life on such uncompromising commitment may be sublime; to base our policy making on such commitments would be a dangerous thing.

  Barack Obama

  Commitment, Policy Making, Sublime

  Barack Obama (2006). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.153, Crown

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• A little knowledge is a dangerous thing - it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread.

  Samuel Johnson

  Angel, Littles, Fool

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• Most people think spies are afraid of guns, or KGB guards, or barbed wire, but in point of fact the most dangerous thing they face is paper. Papers carry secrets. Papers carry death warrants. Papers like this one, this folio with its blurry eighteen year old faked missile photographs and estimates of time/survivor curves and pervasive psychosis ratios, can give you nightmares, dragging you awake screaming in the middle of the night.

  Charles Stross

  Thinking, Gun, Night

  "Toast: And Other Rusted Futures". Book by Charles Stross, 2002.

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• Successful films are very dangerous things.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Successful, Film, Dangerous

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• Faith can cut in so many ways. If you're penitent and not triumphal, it can move us to repentance and accountability and help us reach for something higher than ourselves. That can be a powerful thing, a thing that moves us beyond politics as usual, like Martin Luther King did. But when it's designed to certify our righteousness - that can be a dangerous thing. Then it pushes self criticism aside. There's no reflection.

  Jim Wallis

  Kings, Powerful, Moving

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• The most dangerous things in the world are immense accumulations of human beings who are manipulated by only a few heads.

  Carl Jung

  World, Accumulation, Dangerous

  Carl Gustav Jung, Sir Herbert Edward Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1977). “The Collected Works: The symbolic life. Miscellaneous writings”

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• I guess, as an Anglican, there's always room to move, which can be a dangerous thing, but also a very healthy thing, because bits of the great biblical tradition which you haven't fully plugged into before you've got the space to grow into... not least, the sacraments.

  N. T. Wright

  Moving, Biblical, Space

  Interview with Trevin Wax, blogs.thegospelcoalition.org. November 19, 2007.

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• Never think negatively, for the negative thinker does a very dangerous thing. He pumps out negative thoughts into the world around him and thus activates the world negatively.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Thinking, Negative, Doe

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2007). “The Positive Principle Today”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• Taking power away from a man is a dangerous thing. Someone always pays.

  Glenn Close

  Men, Pay, Dangerous

  "Fictional character: Patty Hewes". TV Series "Damages" ("And My Paralyzing Fear of Death", 2007), www.imdb.com. 2007–2012.

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• The consensus is a very dangerous thing to get complacent about.

  Ken Moelis

  Dangerous, Complacent, Consensus

  Source: nordic.businessinsider.com

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• People who thought that she was busy going around trying to stir up difficulty where there was none or less than she imagined, were quite critical of her. She was, we must never forget, a public figure. And in democracies, public figures tend to attract criticism as well as praise. The most dangerous thing would be if anybody were regarded as above criticism. And Eleanor Roosevelt is, in recent years, getting there.

  William A. Rusher

  Years, People, Democracy

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Also with that money comes the idea, "Let your imagination run wild." Which I think is a very dangerous thing. I think it's dangerous because you can get into pretty wacky territory. There are things that are too crazy.

  Taika Waititi

  Running, Crazy, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• The most dangerous thing in the world is to have no purpose.

  T. D. Jakes

  Purpose, World, Danger

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• You know that saying 'A little knowledge is a dangerous thing'? That's so true of positive psychology. Our latest research tells us that the pursuit of happiness is a delicate art. Certain approaches to seeking happiness are now known to backfire, whereas others are effective.

  Barbara Fredrickson

  Art, Pursuit Of Happiness, Psychology

  "Barbara Fredrickson Talks About…". Interview with Seph Fontane Pennock, positivepsychologynews.com. January 20, 2015.

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• There's a great fear of the imagination. It's a dangerous thing. It's out of control, it's subversive.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Imagination, Dangerous, Subversive

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• The most dangerous thing that can happen to us, I think, is to permit a feeling to develop that any client is a problem. I have always taken the attitude that no account is a 'problem account' but that all accounts have important problems attached to them - that you can waste more time and burn up more nervous energy by fighting a problem than by taking a positive attitude and solving it. It sure gives you a nice, warm glow when you do.

  Leo Burnett

  Attitude, Nice, Taken

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• When you know who you are, you know who you are. That's the real dangerous thing in Hollywood, because they all want to create you and mold you.

  Paul Mooney

  Real, Want, Mold

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 15, 2007.

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• A little learning is a dangerous thing. I must say that Rush Limbaugh is increasingly becoming a warning to kids of the perils of dropping out of school.

  Arianna Huffington

  Kids, School, Littles

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• An intelligence that is not humane is the most dangerous thing in the world .

  Ashley Montagu

  World, Danger, North Korea

  Ashley Montagu (1958). “Education and Human Relations”

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• There is on earth among all dangers, no more dangerous thing than a richly endowed and adroid reason, especially if she enters into spiritual matters which concern the soul and God. For it is more possible to teach an ass to read than to blind such a reason and lead it right; for reason must be deluded, blinded, and destroyed.

  Martin Luther

  Spiritual, Soul, Earth

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• The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness.

  John Piper

  Self, World, Sin

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• Things like microphones are dangerous things because you never know when they might feedback and squeal.

  Temple Grandin

  Might, Feedback, Microphones

  "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. January 20, 2006.

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• The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman, because he'll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.

  Truman Capote

  Sleep, World, Closets

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• Theories then are dangerous things.

  Virginia Woolf

  Theory, Dangerous

  Virginia Woolf (1967). “Collected essays”

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• Souls are dangerous things to carry straight through all the spilt saltpetre of this world.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Soul, World, Dangerous

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