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• The greatest asset of any nation is the spirit of its people, and the greatest danger that can menace any nation is the breakdown of that spirit-the will to win and the courage to work.

  George B. Cortelyou

  Winning, People, Spirit

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• Britain and Pakistan will jointly fight the menace of terrorism .. Both the countries are facing a common threat of terrorism and we know that Pakistan is even more committed to fighting this menace

  Gordon Brown

  Country, Fighting, Pakistan

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• We don't want to change. Every change is a menace to stability.

  Aldous Huxley

  Want, Stability, Brave New World Character

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• I am a greaser. I am a JD and a hood. I blacken the name of our fair city. I beat up people. I rob gas stations. I am a menace to society. Man do I have fun!

  S. E. Hinton

  Fun, Men, Cities

  S.E. Hinton (2016). “The Outsiders 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.109, Penguin

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• A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reform. It does not haggle over expenditures for armaments and military equipment. It pays without discussion, it ruins itself, and that is an excellent thing for the syndicates of financiers and manufacturers for whom patriotic terrors are an abundant source of gain.

  Anatole France

  Military, War, Patriotic

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• The Southern newspapers, with their advertisements of negro sales and personal descriptions of fugitive slaves, supply details of misery that it would be difficult for imagination to exceed. Scorn, derision, insult, menace - the handcuff, the last - the tearing away of children from parents, of husbands from wives - the weary trudging in droves along the common highways, the labor of body, the despair of mind, the sickness of heart - these are the realities which belong to the system, and form the rule, rather that the exception, in the slave's experience.

  Fanny Kemble

  Husband, Children, Heart

  Fanny Kemble (1961). “Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839”, p.6, University of Georgia Press

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• This is not a new world - it is simply an extension of what began in the old one. It has patterned itself after every dictator who has ever planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time. It has refinements...technological advances...and a more sophisticated approach to the destruction of human freedom. But like everyone of the super-states that preceded it - it has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and truth is a menace.

  Rod Serling

  Iron, Enemy, Boots

  "The Twilight Zone: The Obsolete Man". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1961.

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• Have I done the world good, or have I added a menace?

  Guglielmo Marconi

  Done, World

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• and if i if i ever let love go because the hatred and the whisperings become a phantom dictate i o- bey in lieu of impulse and realities (the blossoming flamingos of my wild mimosa trees) then let love freeze me out. (from i must become a menace to my enemies)

  June Jordan

  Reality, Hatred, Tree

  June Jordan (2012). “Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan”, p.232, Copper Canyon Press

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• The two of you together are a menace,” Penelope remarked. “My aim in life,” Lady Danbury announced, “is to be a menace to as great a number of people as possible, so I shall take that as the highest of compliments, Mrs. Bridgerton.” “Why is it,” Penelope wondered, “that you only call me Mrs. Bridgerton when you are opining in a grand fashion?” “Sounds better that way,” Lady D said, punctuating her remark with a loud thump of her cane.

  Julia Quinn

  Fashion, Two, Numbers

  Julia Quinn (2009). “It's In His Kiss”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• Nobody gets out of love alive. You turn into a menace or a pest when you've been rejected.

  Helen Fisher

  Pests, Alive, Rejected

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• Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Hands, Promise, Variation

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• Noomi [Rapace] felt fresh. And she's passionate and ambitious in all the right ways. She's a tour de force. Every time I was trying to have a discussion with the actors, she'd be pulling out a blade out from underneath her gypsy skirt and menace someone saying, "Maybe I should slit your throat."

  Kam Williams

  Trying, Ambitious, Passionate

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• Wake up to the real world. Look at what's happening in the region. Look at where people are going, how people react to humiliation and marginalization. I do not think a few more votes is worth making this menace - that we all face - far more complicated. People have to wake up to that and respond to that, not politicize it.

  Mohammad Javad Zarif

  Real, Thinking, People

  "Iran's Javad Zarif on Syria, Russia, and Donald Trump". Interview with Robin Wright, www.newyorker.com. December 18, 2015.

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• There are many things in the deep waters; and seas and lands may change. And it is not our part here to take thought only for a season, or for a few lives of Men, or for a passing age of the world. We should seek a final end of this menace, even if we do not hope to make one.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Men, Deep Water, Sea

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.192, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Cause see they call me a menace; and if the shoe fits I'll wear it.

  Eminem

  Funny, Shoes, Causes

  "Renegade". Song by Eminem and Jay-Z, 2006.

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• Environmental damage such as graffiti, fly-posting and general littering is a menace that is becoming all too prevalent, not just in inner cities but in many communities - urban and rural.

  Margaret Beckett

  Cities, Community, Environmental

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• What is she to me? Except a menace — a danger you’ve chosen to inflict on all of us.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Twilight, Danger, Chosen

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• Repression breeds hate; hate menaces stable government.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Hate, Government, Repression

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• The problem of living is at bottom an economic one. And this alone is bad enough, even in a period of so-called "normalcy." But living has been considerably complicated of late in various ways - by war, by questions of personal liberty, and by "menaces" of one kind or another.

  Benton MacKaye

  War, Liberty, Normalcy

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• You're a public menace. You shouldn't be allowed out on your own.

  Cassandra Clare

  City Of Fallen Angels

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “City of Fallen Angels”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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• In spite of death, he felt the need of life and love. He felt that love saved him from despair, and that this love, under the menace of despair, had become still stronger and purer. The one mystery of death, still unsolved, had scarcely passed before his eyes, when another mystery had arisen, as insoluble, urging him to love and to life.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Life And Love, Eye, Despair

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.435, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line.

  Rollo May

  Lines, May, Poet

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.69, W. W. Norton & Company

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• She put a hit on her boyfriend, so it's not like she hasn't murdered someone." "And you know that how?" Sam asks. I'm trying really hard to be honest, but telling the whole thing to Sam seems beyond me. Still, the fragments sound ridiculous on their own. "She said so. In the park." He rolls his eyes. "Because the two of you were so friendly." "I guess she mistook me for someone else." I sound so much like Philip that it scares me. I can hear the menace in my tone. "Who?" Sam asks, not flinching. I force my voice back to normal. "Uh, the person who killed him.

  Holly Black

  Eye, Two, Voice

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• I know girls who pine for it. They like to play dress-up and pretend being Vor ladies of old, rescued from menace by romantic Vor youths. For some reason they never play 'dying in childbirth', or 'vomiting your guts out from the red dysentery', or 'weaving till you go blind and crippled from arthritis and dye poisoning', or 'infanticide'. Well, they do die romantically of disease sometimes, but somehow it's always an illness that makes you interestingly pale and everyone sorry and doesn't involve losing bowel control.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Girl, Sorry, Play

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