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• With hearts fortified with these animating reflections, we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare, that, exerting the utmost energy of those powers, which our beneficent Creator hath graciously bestowed upon us, the arms we have compelled by our enemies to assume, we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverance employ for the preservation of our liberties; being with one mind resolved to die freemen rather than to live as slaves.

  John Dickinson

  Perseverance, Heart, Reflection

  John Dickinson (1891). “The Life and Writings of John Dickinson”

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• The main health hazard in the world today is people who don't love themselves.

  Kinky Friedman

  Health, People, World

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• The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. - is sure to be noticed.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Loss, Self, Wife

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• I will for ever, at all hazards, assert the dignity, independence, and integrity of the English bar; without which, impartial justice, the most valuable part of the English constitution, can have no existence.

  Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine

  Integrity, Justice, Independence

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• Reckless adventure is the fool's hazard.

  Tacitus

  Adventure, Fool, Reckless

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• The very condition of Woman is so subject to Hazard, so complex, and so grievous, that to place her at one moment is but to displace her at the next.

  Djuna Barnes

  Next, Moments, Subjects

  Djuna Barnes (1928). “Ladies Almanack: Showing Their Signs and Their Tides, Their Moons and Their Changes, the Seasons as it is with Them, Their Eclipses and Equinoxes, as Well as a Full Record of Diurnal and Nocturnal Distempers”, Carcanet Press Limited

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• There is no plan. All is hazard. And the only thing that will preserve us is ourselves.

  John Fowles

  Plans, Preserves

  John Fowles (1965). “The Magus”

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• It’s unlikely that any of those natural hazards will do us in within the next 100 years if we’ve already survived 100,000. By contrast, we are introducing, through human activity, entirely new types of dangers by developing powerful new technologies. We have no record of surviving those.

  Nick Bostrom

  Powerful, Technology, Years

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• Writing is a solitary occupation, and one of its hazards is loneliness. But an advantage of loneliness is privacy, autonomy and freedom.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Loneliness, Writing, Occupation

  "A Widow’s Story" by Joyce Carol Oates, www.newyorker.com. December 13, 2010.

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• A great man knows the value of greatness; he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Greatness, Men, Dare

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The Works of Walter Savage Landor”, p.365

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• To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.

  William Penn

  Wall, Avarice Greed, Avarice

  William Penn (1726). “A Collection of the Works of William Penn: To which is Prefixed a Journal of His Life, with Many Original Letters and Papers Not Before Published”, p.832

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• If one were to be a person of value that value could not be a condition subject to hazards of fortune. It had to be a quality that could not change. No matter what.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Quality, Matter, Fortune

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.223, Pan Macmillan

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• Sweden rejected fluoridation in the 1970s, and in this excellent book these three scientists have confirmed the wisdom of that decision. Our children have not suffered greater tooth decay, as World Health Organization figures attest, and in turn our citizens have not borne the other hazards fluoride may cause

  Arvid Carlsson

  Children, Book, Organization

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• No religion is a true religion that does not make men tingle to their finger tips with a sense of infinite hazard.

  William Ernest Hocking

  Men, Doe, Infinite

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• The Christian's chief occupational hazards are depression and discouragement.

  John Stott

  Christian, Discouragement, Chiefs

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• Achieving the summit of a mountain was tangible, immutable, concrete. The incumbent hazards lent the activity a seriousness of purpose that was sorely missing from the rest of my life. I thrilled in the fresh perspective that came from the tipping the ordinary plane of existence on end.

  Jon Krakauer

  Perspective, Missing, Mountain

  Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into Thin Air: A personal account of the Everest disaster”, p.24, Pan Macmillan

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• In the quiet hours, in the heat of battle, and through the hazards of the day; in times of temptation, of sorrow, of peace and of blessing, let us pray always, both alone, and with our families gathered around us, with gratitude for the blessings of life, for understanding of its problems, and for strength to endure to the end.

  Heber J. Grant

  Gratitude, Blessing, Temptation

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• Those who refuse to support and defend the state have no claim to protection by that state. Killing an anarchist or a pacifist should not be considered "murder" in a legalistic sense. The offense against the state, if any, should be "Using deadly weapons within city limits," or "Creating a traffic hazard," or other misdemeanor.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Peace, War, Cities

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• There is a major disaster when a person allows some success to become a stopping place rather than a way station on to a larger goal. It often happens that an early success is a greater moral hazard than an early failure.

  Bill Vaughan

  Success, Goal, Stopping

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• An author places himself uncalled before the tribunal of criticism and solicits fame at the hazard of disgrace.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Criticism, Fame

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Broome, Pope, Pitt, Thomson”, p.114

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• Members in the Commonwealth of God are not bound together by the specifics of their religion, for the nature of our interdependency does not require this. Rather we are bound by the shared recognition that when one person suffers, all suffer; when we violate one life, all lives are violated; when we pollute the earth, all living things are stained; when one nation threatens the security of another, it, too, becomes less secure; when we place the planet in mortal danger, we hazard the future of our own children as well as the children of our enemies.

  Forrest Church

  Children, Enemy, Suffering

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• As a peace machine, it's value to the world will be beyond computation. Would a declaration of war between Russia and Japan be made, if within an hour there after a swifty gliding aeroplane might take its flight from St Petersburg and drop half a ton of dynamite above the enemy's war offices? Could any nation afford to war upon any other with such hazards in view?

  John Brisben Walker

  War, Russia, Japan

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• My teacher, Hopkins, often commented on the craving for certainty that led so many physicists into mysticism or into the Church and similar organisations ... Faith seems to be an occupational hazard for physicists.

  Norman Pirie

  Faith, Teacher, Science

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• Without vanity a writer's work is tepid, and he must accept his vanity as part of his stock in trade and live with it as one of the hazards of his profession.

  Moss Hart

  Vanity, Accepting, Trade

  moss hart (1959). “act one”

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• Together we resolve that a great nation must care for the vulnerable and protect its people from life's worst hazards and misfortune.

  Barack Obama

  People, Pro Life, Together

  Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 2013, Washington, D.C.

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