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• A man may be buoyed up by the efflation of his wild desires to brave any imaginable peril; but he cannot calmly see one he loves braving the same peril; simply because he cannot feel within turn that which prompts another. He sees the danger, and feels not the power that is to overcome it.

  George Henry Lewes

  Sympathy, Men, Brave

  "The Spanish Drama". Book by George Henry Lewes. Chapter 2, 1846.

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• I cannot love people in the country, I discover, because there is always this danger that they may be acquaintances, with all the perils and choleras of acquaintance implicit in them; but in London they seem as charming as rabbits.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Country, People, May

  Sylvia Townsend Warner, William Maxwell (1982). “Letters”

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• I'm done with girls on rocks! I've painted them for thirteen years and I could paint them and sell them for thirteen more. That's the peril of the commercial art game. It tempts a man to repeat himself. it's an awful thing to get to be a rubber stamp. I'm quitting my rut now while I'm still able.

  Maxfield Parrish

  Girl, Art, Men

  Maxfield Parrish, Alma Gilbert-Smith, Joyce Stoner, Trust for Museum Exhibitions (2005). “Maxfield Parrish: master of make-believe”, Philip Wilson Publishers

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• So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.

  Lucretius

  Heart, Adversity, Reality

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations". Book by John Bartlett, 1855.

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• Only in the last few years did the science crystallize, revealing the urgency - our planet really is in peril. If we do not change course soon, we will hand our children a situation that is out of their control.

  James Hansen

  Children, Hands, Years

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• What was once a tiny seed of belief for me has grown into the tree of life, so if your faith is a little tested in this or any season, I invite you to lean on mine. I know this work is God’s very truth, and I know that only at our peril would we allow doubt or devils to sway us from its path. Hope on. Journey on. Honestly acknowledge your questions and your concerns, but first and forever fan the flame of your faith, because all things are possible to them that believe.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Believe, Journey, Flames

  "“Lord, I Believe”". Jeffrey R. Holland's address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. April 2013.

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• It's vital to establish some rituals-automatic but decisive patterns of behavior-at the beginning of the creative process, when you are most at peril of turning back, chickening out, giving up, or going the wrong way.

  Twyla Tharp

  Giving Up, Creative, Patterns

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril

  Andrew Motion

  Heart, Emotional, Forget

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• The man who stands by and says nothing, when the peril of his government is discussed, can not be misunderstood. If not hindered, he is sure to help the enemy.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Misunderstood, Enemy

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.1179, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The air is an extremely dangerous, jealous and exacting mistress. Once under the spell most lovers are faithful to the end, which is not always old age. Even those masters and princes of aerial fighting, the survivors of fifty mortal duels in the high air who have come scatheless through the War and all its perils, have returned again and again to their love and perished too often in some ordinary commonplace flight undertaken for pure amusement.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Jealous, Fighting

  Sir Winston Churchill, Andrew Scotland (1965). “Churchill on men and events: a selection from "Thoughts and adventures" and "Great contemporaries"”

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• Mankind has tried the other two roads to peace - the road of political jealousy and the road of religious bigotry - and found them both equally misleading. Perhaps it will now try the third, the road of scientific truth, the only road on which the passenger is not deceived. Science does not, ostrich-like, bury its head amidst perils and difficulties. It tries to see everything exactly as everything is.

  Garrett P. Serviss

  Religious, Two, Ostriches

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• No matter what we have come through, or how many perils we have safely passed, or how many imperfect and jagged - in some places perhaps irreparably - our life has been, we cannot in our heart of hearts imagine how it could have been different. As we look back on it, it slips in behind us in orderly array, and, with all its mistakes, acquires a sort of eternal fitness, and even, at times, of poetic glamour.

  Randolph Bourne

  Mistake, Heart, Reflection

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• There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.

  Plato

  Knowledge, Words Of Wisdom, Meat

  Plato (1977). “The Portable Plato”, p.38, Penguin

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• I stand before the Church this day and raise the warning voice. ... It is a voice calling upon the Lords people to prepare for the troubles and desolations which are about to be poured out upon the world without measure. For the moment we live in a day of peace and prosperity but it shall not ever be thus. Great trials lie ahead. All of the sorrows and perils of the past are but a foretaste of what is yet to be. And we must prepare ourselves temporally and spiritually.

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Lying, Past, Voice

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• Turn off your radio. Put away your daily paper. Read one review of events a week and spend some time reading good books. They tell too of days of striving and of strife. They are of other centuries and also of our own. They make us realize that all times are perilous, that men live in a dangerous world, in peril constantly of losing or maiming soul and body. We get some sense of perspective reading such books. Renewed courage and faith and even joy to live.

  Dorothy Day

  Book, Reading, Men

  Dorothy Day, Robert Ellsberg (2008). “The duty of delight: the diaries of Dorothy Day”, Marquette Univ Pr

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• Biodiversity is the totality of all inherited variation in the life forms of Earth, of which we are one species. We study and save it to our great benefit. We ignore and degrade it to our great peril.

  E. O. Wilson

  Variation, Benefits, Earth

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• Moskin has brought together with care and lucidity an inside history of American diplomacy written through the eyes of the many diplomats who conceived and carried it out over 225 years. You experience the challenges, successes, and foibles. Over time, the Foreign Service evolved into a professional cadre serving the public and presidents, often at the peril of their lives. Anyone interested in understanding our diplomacy, what makes it tick, and how it strives to serve the public interest should read this masterful history.

  Thomas R. Pickering

  Eye, Years, Understanding

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• There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away. The British people can face peril or misfortune with fortitude and buoyancy, but they bitterly resent being deceived or finding that those responsible for their affairs are themselves dwelling in a fool's paradise.

  Winston Churchill

  Mistake, Dwelling, People

  Winston Churchill (1986). “The Hinge of Fate”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Love in modern times has been the tailor's best friend. Every suitor of the nineteenth century spends more than his spare cash on personal adornment. A faultless fit, a glistening hat, tight gloves, and tighter boots proclaim the imminent peril of his position.

  George Augustus Henry Sala

  Cash, Tailors, Hats

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• I embarked on a risky course of plastic surgery and silicone injections, major dental realignments and gruesome medical procedures. I pray that young dancers, those who imitate me at their peril, will avoid this blind alley. It is more than a dead end; it is a dead beginning.

  Gelsey Kirkland

  Dancer, Medical, Praying

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• Positivism eliminates any kind of natural law principle - for example, that there are economic laws which can be transgressed only at your peril. With positivism, there is a tendency to leap into ad hoc economic theory.

  Murray Rothbard

  Law, Principles, Example

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• Without good communication, a relationship is merely a hollow vessel carrying you along on a frustrating journey fraught with the perils of confusion, projection, and misunderstanding.

  Cherie Carter-Scott

  Communication, Journey, Confusion

  Cherie Carter-Scott (2010). “If Love Is A Game, These Are The Rules”, p.96, Random House

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• To me, there's nothing funnier than funny people in peril, because it's just a great springboard for people to be at a heightened emotionality and things get funnier.

  Paul Feig

  People, Funny People, Springboards

  "Paul Feig talks 'Ghostbusters,' 'Geeks'". Interview by Patrick Ryan, www.usatoday.com. April 14, 2015.

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• Blood Dazzler is Patricia Smith's impassioned lyric chronicle of a beloved city in peril, a city whose people were left to die before us all, a people who were the heart of our country and lifeblood of our culture. After rising water, winds and abandonment, after our failure and neglect, comes this symphony of utterance from the ruins: many-voiced, poignant, sorrowful and fierce. This is poetry taking the full measure of its task.

  Carolyn Forche

  Country, Heart, Wind

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• Marriage is the basic building block of civilization. We are redefining it at our own peril.

  Hank Hanegraaff

  Block, Civilization, Building

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