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• The preacher who is concerned with gaining a reputation, rising in his profession, is always in bondage. The itch for bigness is a dangerous thing. It has made a castaway of many a man whom God once richly blessed. A man should desire to be neither larger nor smaller than pleases God. Better than that, he should not bother at all about how large or how small but rather how faithful he shall be.

  Vance Havner

  Blessed, Men, Faithful

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• Fear is a dangerous thing. Once it is sanctioned by the state there is no telling where it might lead. It is always a short path to walk from being suspicious of our fellow citizens to taking actions to restrict their liberty.

  Justin Trudeau

  Liberty, Might, Path

  "Canadian Liberty and the Politics of Fear". Speech at the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, www.liberal.ca. March 10, 2015.

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• If I post a selfie, and you like it, it's of little cost to you, but it feels great to me. That becomes addictive, and you see people's narcissism so quickly. I think that's a very dangerous thing for us all to be addicted to.

  Kim Stolz

  Thinking, People, Cost

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• People want power but not wisdom. Power without wisdom is a very dangerous thing. Better to have wisdom first.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, People, Want

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• Precedents are dangerous things; let the rein of government then be braced and held with a steady hand.

  George Washington

  Hands, Government, Precedent

  George Washington (1852). “The life of General Washington: first president of the United States”, p.142

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• Power is a dangerous thing. Be careful that you don't abuse it or let it make a tyrant of you.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Power, Tyrants, Abuse

  Louisa May Alcott (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)”, p.2377, Delphi Classics

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• The three most dangerous things in the world are a programmer with a soldering iron, a hardware type with a program patch and a user with an idea.

  Rick Cook

  Ideas, Iron, Wizardry

  "The Wizardry Consulted". Book by Rick Cook, 1995.

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• Advertising is like learning - a little is a dangerous thing. If a man has not the pluck to keep on advertising, all the money he has already spent is lost.

  P. T. Barnum

  Men, Littles, Advertising

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• Going up the mast is one of the most dangerous things you can do as a solo sailor.

  Abby Sunderland

  Sailor, Solo, Dangerous

  Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.145, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Power in the hands of the stupid is often a dangerous thing. Hitler proved it.

  Siddharth Katragadda

  Stupid, Hands, Dangerous

  "Dark Rooms: A Saga". Book by Siddharth Katragadda, 2002.

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• It is commonly a dangerous thing for a man to have more sense than his neighbors. Socrates paid for his superiority with his life; and if Aristotle saved his skin, it was by taking to his heels in time.

  Christoph Martin Wieland

  Men, Skins, Neighbor

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• I learned two things growing up in Texas. 1: God loves you, and you're going to burn in hell forever. 2: Sex is the dirtiest and most dangerous thing you can possibly do, so save it for someone you love.

  Molly Ivins

  Sex, Growing Up, Love You

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• Good company requires only birth, education, and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice. Birth and good manners are essential; but a little learning is by no means a dangerous thing in good company; on the contrary, it will do very well.

  Jane Austen

  Friendship, Nice, Mean

  Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.296, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Assumptions are dangerous things.

  Agatha Christie

  Assumption, Dangerous

  "The Wide Window". Book by Daniel Handler, 2000.

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• Religion is not a nice thing. It is potentially a very dangerous thing because it involves a heady complex of emotions, desires, yearnings and fears.

  Karen Armstrong

  Nice, Atheism, Desire

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• This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes they consume us completely.

  Arthur Golden

  Dream, Fire, Doe

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• A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Learning

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• The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.

  Peter Drucker

  Business, Mistake, Wrong Answers

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• It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen; they cannot 'do'; they can only be done by.

  Rumer Godden

  Dolls, Done, Sometimes

  Rumer Godden (2015). “The Dolls' House”, p.9, Pan Macmillan

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• Getting typecast is a dangerous thing to do.

  Michael Zaslow

  Dangerous, Things To Do

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• A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Military, History, Nuclear Missiles

  Margaret Thatcher's speech at Soviet official banquet at St George's Halls, The Kremlin, www.margaretthatcher.org. March 30, 1987.

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• Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.

  Oscar Wilde

  Reality, Dangerous, Ideals

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (more than 150 Works)”, p.281, e-artnow

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• Twenty aspirin, a little slit alongside the veins of the arm, maybe even a bad half hour standing on a roof: We've all had those. And somewhat more dangerous things, like putting a gun in your mouth. But you put it there, you taste it, it's cold and greasy, your finger is on the trigger, and you find that a whole world lies between this moment and the moment you've been planning, when you'll pull the trigger. That world defeats you. You put the gun back in the drawer. You'll have to find another way.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Lying, Gun, Girl Interrupted

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.17, Vintage

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• Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.

  Stephen King

  Men, Insane, Redemption

  "Fictional character: Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding". "The Shawshank Redemption", www.imdb.com. September 10, 1994.

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• Woolf wanted to say dangerous things in Orlando but she did not want to say them in the missionary position.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Want, Orlando, Missionary

  Jeanette Winterson (2013). “Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery”, p.49, Random House

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