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• Always remember, your focus determines your reality.

  George Lucas

  Inspirational, Business, Positive Thinking

  Patricia C. Wrede, George Lucas (2012). “Star Wars®: Episode I: The Phantom Menace”, p.118, Scholastic Inc.

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• Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

  George Lucas

  Depression, Fear, Hate

  Patricia C. Wrede, George Lucas (2012). “Star Wars®: Episode I: The Phantom Menace”, p.112, Scholastic Inc.

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• Chatterers are a menace.

  Jeffrey Archer

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• It is possible that the malice of writers has been overrated (by myself among others). Reading their ruminations on their craft, one sees why this writer could not possibly like that one, would indeed consider him a menace. Literature is a battleground of conflicting faiths, and nobler passions than envy are involved.

  Wilfrid Sheed

  Reading, Passion, Envy

  Wilfrid Sheed (1978). “The good word and other words”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• America has been a land of dreams. A land where the aspirations of people from countries cluttered with rich, cumbersome, aristocratic, ideological pasts can reach for what once seemed unattainable. Here they have tried to make dreams come true. Yet now... we are threatened by a new and particularly American menace. It is not the menace of class war, of ideology, of poverty, of disease, of illiteracy, or demagoguery, or of tyranny, though these now plague most of the world. It is the menace of unreality.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Dream, Country, War

  Daniel J. Boorstin (1962). “The Image or What Happened to the American Dream”

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• Blacks, soldiers, and Jews are a menace to the race.

  Margaret Sanger

  Race, Soldier, Jew

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• The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.

  George Lucas

  Intelligent, Doe, Jinn

  Patricia C. Wrede, George Lucas (2012). “Star Wars®: Episode I: The Phantom Menace”, p.21, Scholastic Inc.

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• You can't stop change any more than you can stop the suns from setting.

  Shmi Skywalker

  Sun, Settings, Stop War

  "Fictional character: Shmi Skywalker". "Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace", www.imdb.com. 1999.

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  I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow.

  Dorothea Dix

  Worry, Each Day, Tomorrow

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• A fashion plate, a rock star in his own mind, Megamind is more showman than deadly menace.

  Will Ferrell

  Fashion, Stars, Rocks

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• One fish Two fish Red fish Blue fish!

  Dr. Seuss

  Blue, Two, Red

  Dr. Seuss (2017). “One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish”, HarperCollins UK

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• A private central bank issuing the public currency is a greater menace to the liberties of the people than a standing army. We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Army, People, Liberty

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• I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.

  Dorothy Dix

  Fear, Dark, Worry

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• But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan for stopping it. Everyone tried to get out of its way.

  Frances Perkins

  Depression, Progress, Stopping

  On the depression of the1930s which inspired her to set up the Social Security system. Recalled on her death,14 May1965.

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• No doubt concentration camps were a means, a menace used to keep order.

  Albert Speer

  Mean, Order, Doubt

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• The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Life, Self, Complacency

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• I find it hard to understand why Scorsese has never called. You know, given the natural menace I bring to the screen.

  Hugh Grant

  Natural, Given, Scorsese

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• The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis.

  Gregory Corso

  Judging, Crime, Said

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• Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace.

  Anthony Burgess

  Baths, Cleanliness, Week

  1963 Inside Mr Enderby, pt.2, ch.1.

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• The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace - not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our own failures.

  J. William Fulbright

  Unions, Done, Excuse

  "Fulbright of Arkansas: The Public Positions of a Private Thinker". Book by J. William Fulbright, 1963.

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• Violent means will give violent swaraj. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Giving, India

  "Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi".

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• Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.

  Grover Cleveland

  Government, Presidential, Hateful

  Grover Cleveland (2006). “State of the Union Addresses”, p.259, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The industry is a menace to artists.

  Nikki Sixx

  Artist, Industry

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• Skiers view snowboarders as a menace; snowboarders view skiers as Elmer Fudd.

  Dave Barry

  Views, Skiers

  Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.88, Ballantine Books

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• Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age cannot afford.

  Arthur Goldberg

  Law, Age, Nuclear

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