Dangerous Quotes - Page 7

• If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Happiness, Travel

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Sep 07, 2011

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• Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Science, Imagination, Goal

  1906 The Doctor's Dilemma, preface,'The Latest Theories'.

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• There is nothing more dangerous than a lazy parent.

  Wes Fesler

  Parenting, Lazy, Laziness

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• If a little knowledge was a dangerous thing, a lot was lethal.

  Tom Sharpe

  Littles, Little Knowledge, Ifs

  Tom Sharpe (1974). “Porterhouse Blue”, p.191, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on - series polygamy - until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimension to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.

  Tom Robbins

  Love, Relationship, Wedding

  "Still Life with Woodpecker". Book by Tom Robbins, 1980.

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• Death is what takes place within us when we look upon others not as gift, blessing, or stimulus but as threat, danger, competition.

  Dorothee Solle

  Death, Fear, Blessing

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• Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.

  David Hume

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Science

  A Treatise upon Human Nature bk. 1 (1739)

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• Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

  Helen Rowland

  Love, Relationship, Littles

  Helen Rowland (1909). “Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”

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• Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.

  William Proxmire

  Exercise, Power, Political

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• No errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion is left free to grapple with them.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Country, Errors, Opinion

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.48

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  The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophy, Women, Humorous

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• It was never physically dangerous except when I nearly fell off a horse, but it was physically arduous - especially when you were working late at night.

  Derek Jacobi

  Horse, Night, Late

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• Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous... I define vulnerability as emotional risk, exposure, uncertainty. It fuels our daily lives.

  Brené Brown

  Emotional, Risk, Fuel

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• Sometimes being too nice is dangerous, you have to show your mean side once in a while to avoid getting hurt.

  Ziad K. Abdelnour

  Hurt, Nice, Mean

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• The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already.

  Edward Abbey

  Enough Already, Missionary, Savages

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.9, RosettaBooks

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• Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

  James A. Baldwin

  Heart, Evil, Imagination

  "The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy". "Esquire" Magazine, May 1961.

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• The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  War, Class, Ignorant

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you.

  Tony Benn

  Creativity, Mad, Innovation

  1991 Speech at the Labour Party Conference, Oct.

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• What's dangerous is not to evolve.

  Jeff Bezos

  Evolve

  "Jeff Bezos and Amazon: Making Authors’ Dreams Come True" by Sue Shanahan, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 30, 2015.

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• Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Witty, Kings

  Strength to Love (1963) ch. 4

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• To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize in them is infinitely worse.

  Rudolph Valentino

  Women, Women Bashing, Generalization

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Money without brains is always dangerous.

  Napoleon Hill

  Money, Brain, Wealth

  Napoleon Hill, Wallace D. Wattles (2012). “Get Rich Collection”, p.99, Penguin

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• Critics play a dangerous game when they denounce the science and law EPA has used to defend clean air for more than 40 years. The American people know better.

  Gina McCarthy

  Air, Years, Law

  "U.S. EPA: We need tougher ozone standards" by Gina McCarthy, money.cnn.com. November 26, 2014.

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• A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Life, Attitude, Views

  Marshall McLuhan, W. Terrence Gordon, Elena Lamberti, Dominique Scheffel-Dunand (2011). “The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man”, p.246, University of Toronto Press

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• All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Inspirational, Success, Dream

  The Seven Pillars of Wisdom suppressed introductory chapter (1926).

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