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• Our common country is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views, and boldest action to bring it speedy relief. Once relieved, its form of government is saved to the world; its beloved history, and cherished memories, are vindicated; and its happy future fully assured, and rendered inconceivably grand.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Memories, Government

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.404, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The coming peril is the intellectual, educational, psychological and artistic overproduction, which, equally with economic overproduction, threatens the well-being of contemporary civilisation. People are inundated, blinded, deafened, and mentally paralysed by a flood of vulgar and tasteless externals, leaving them no time for leisure, thought, or creation from within themselves.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Educational, People, Leaving

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• Throughout the Old Testament, God warns his chosen people about the perils of assimilation, shiksappeal and false gods.

  David Harsanyi

  People, Old Testament, Assimilation

  "How Liberalism Destroyed the American Jew" by David Harsanyi, www.realclearpolitics.com. October 10, 2013.

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• A pilot must have a memory developed to absolute perfection. But there are two higher qualities which he also must have. He must have good and quick judgment and decision, and a cool, calm courage that no peril can shake.

  Mark Twain

  Memories, Two, Perfection

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• False religion may prevail, iniquity may abound, the love of many may wax cold, the cross of Calvary may be lost sight of, and darkness, like the pall of death, may spread over the world; the whole force of the popular current may be formed to overthrow the people of God; but in the hour of greatest peril the God of Elijah will raise up human instrumentalities to bear a message that will not be silenced.

  Ellen G. White

  Sight, People, Darkness

  Ellen G. White (2015). “Prophets and Kings”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

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• UNDER THE STORM AND THE CLOUD TODAY, AND TODAY THE HARD PERIL AND PAIN - TOMORROW
  THE STONE WILL BE ROLLED AWAY, FOR THE SUNSHINE SHALL FOLLOW THE RAIN

  Joaquin Miller

  Pain, Rain, Sunshine

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• At last, after almost fifty years in the hopper, the most famous unpublished novel in America is in print. Who Shot the Water Buffalo? is a splendid story of comradeship in a time and place of constant peril, but it's Babbs's irrepressible exuberance and vast, affectionate good humor that make the story go. I love this novel.

  Ed McClanahan

  Years, America, Water

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• At bank, post office or supermarket, there is one universal law which you ignore at your own peril: the shortest line moves the slowest.

  Bill Vaughan

  Moving, Humor, Law

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• The rule of no realm is mine. But all worthy things that are in peril as the world now stands, those are my care. And for my part, I shall not wholly fail in my task if anything that passes through this night can still grow fairer or bear fruit and flower again in days to come. For I too am a steward. Did you not know?

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Courage, Flower, Inspiration

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• The tests of life are to make, not break us. Trouble may demolish a man's business but build up his character. The blow at the outward man may be the greatest blessing to the inner man.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Life, Encouragement, Religious

  "Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock".

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• Planet Earth, creation, the world in which civilization developed, the world with climate patterns that we know and stable shorelines, is in imminent peril.

  James Hansen

  Civilization, Climate, World

  James Hansen (2011). “Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth about the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity”, p.4, A&C Black

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• I just don't see this old idea of the Red peril, itching to take over the world. I think you can explain a lot of the Soviets' moves as stemming from a basic sense of insecurity.

  John Anderson

  War, Moving, Thinking

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• If a place is in your blood, you leave it at your peril. You will never be happy anywhere else.

  Caroline Llewellyn

  Blood, Ifs

  Caroline Llewellyn (1994). “Life Blood”

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• I bear witness, O my God, that Thou hast created me to know Thee and to worship Thee. I testify, at this moment, to my powerlessness and to Thy might, to my poverty and to Thy wealth. There is none other God but Thee, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Love, Trust, Self

  Bahá'u'lláh (0101). “Prayers and Meditations”, p.181, Prabhat Prakashan

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• The more expansive government is, the more perils people face in daily lives, be it from IRS agents or from child support services, or from other agencies that often have little or no legal restraints on their power.

  James Bovard

  Children, Agency, Government

  Interview with Aaron Zelman, jpfo.org.

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• Perils as well as privileges attend the higher Christian life. The nearer we come to God, the thicker the hosts of darkness in heavenly places. Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.

  A. B. Simpson

  Christian, Darkness, Needs

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• Money and sex are forces too unruly for our reason; they can only be controlled by taboos with which we tamper at our peril.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Money, Sex, Reason

  "Afterthoughts".

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• A little learning is a dangerous thing. I must say that Rush Limbaugh is increasingly becoming a warning to kids of the perils of dropping out of school.

  Arianna Huffington

  Kids, School, Littles

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• The melting pot failed to function in one crucial area. Religions and nationalities, however different, generally learned to live together, even to grow together, in America. But color was something else. Reds were murdered like wild animals. Yellows were characterized as a peril and incarcerated en masse during World War ii for no really good reason by our most liberal president. Browns have been abused as the new slave labor on farms. The blacks, who did not come here willingly, are now, more than a century after emancipation by Lincoln, still suffering a host of slave like inequalities.

  Theodore Hesburgh

  War, Animal, America

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• Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.

  Thucydides

  Strength, Peace, Military

  Thucydides (1979). “The Speeches of Pericles”, Burns & Oates

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• All choices are fraught with peril, but inaction is the most perilous of all.

  Allan Frewin Jones

  Choices, Inaction

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• The decision to speak out is the vocation and lifelong peril by which the intellectual must live.

  Kay Boyle

  Acceptance, Speaks Out, Decision

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• Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never peril.

  Sun Tzu

  Inspirational, Art, Fear

  The Art of War ch. 3 (translation by Yuan Shibang)

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• Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment. In the last analysis, the welfare of the workers depends upon their own initiative. Whatever is done under the guise of philanthropy or social morality which in any way lessens initiative is the greatest crime that can be committed against the toilers. Let social busybodies and professional "public morals experts" in their fads reflect upon the perils they rashly invite under this pretense of social welfare.

  Samuel Gompers

  People, Done, Fads

  Samuel Gompers, John McBride, William Green (1922). “The American Federationist”

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• Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and Responsibility of our existence.

  Elihu Burritt

  Lying, Character, Responsibility

  Elihu Burritt (1850). “Miscellaneous Writings”, p.48

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