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• The perils of credit and debt, especially perilous in the computer age, have long been acknowledged in pop culture, but very infrequently by TV.

  Tom Shales

  Long, Age, Culture

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• I'm proud of my wrinkles. They give my face character. As an actress, you mess with that at your peril.

  Jane Seymour

  Character, Wrinkles, Giving

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• I get to do the most amazing things. We call it Host in Peril quite often, because people love to see me risk my life or be in danger.

  Rick Mercer

  People, Risk, Host

  "'Canadian Jon Stewart' Explains Thanksgiving". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. October 9, 2010.

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• There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.

  Bertrand Russell

  Atheist, Men, Littles

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Human Society in Ethics and Politics”, p.219, Routledge

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• America's demographic shift was obvious to everyone in the 2010 Census - but Republicans stubbornly rejected math, facts, and polls to their electoral peril. While Republicans tailored their platform by and for the pale stale and male, among us, Obama and Democrats are embracing America's diverse mosaic.

  Christine Pelosi

  Math, America, Males

  "President Obama and Democrats Won Embracing Demography as Destiny" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2012.

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• The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.

  Alice Walker

  Spiritual, Believe, Animal

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.278, Hachette UK

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• Yea, and if some god shall wreck me in the wine-dark deep, even so I will endure… For already have I suffered full much, and much have I toiled in perils of waves and war. Let this be added to the tale of those.

  Homer

  War, Wine, Dark

  Homer (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Homer (Illustrated)”, p.4415, Delphi Classics

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• Peril, loneliness, an uncertain future, are not oppressive evils, so long as the frame is healthy and the faculties are employed; so long, especially, as Liberty lends us her wings, and Hope guides us by her star.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Stars, Loneliness, Wings

  Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Villette”, p.56, Xist Publishing

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• Sticklers never read a book without a pencil at hand, to correct the typographical errors. In short, we are unattractive know-all obsessives who get things out of proportion and are in continual peril of being disowned by our exasperated families.

  Lynne Truss

  Book, Errors, Hands

  Lynne Truss (2011). “Eats, Shoots and Leaves”, p.5, HarperCollins UK

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• And in truth (as I now see) I had the wish to put off my journey as long as I could. Not for any peril or labour it might cost; but because I could see nothing in the whole world for me to do once it was accomplished. AS long as this act lay before me, there was, as it were, some barrier between me and the dead desert which the rest of my life must be.

  C. S. Lewis

  Journey, Long, Wish

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• It was titillating to brush up against the enigma of mortality, to steal a glimpse across its forbidden frontier. Climbing was a magnificient activity, I firmly believed, not in spite of the inherent perils, but precisely because of them.

  Jon Krakauer

  Climbing, Glimpse, Stealing

  FaceBook post by Jon Krakauer from Aug 23, 2014

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• Human love, human trust, are always perilous, because they break down. The greater the love, the greater the trust, and the greater the peril, the greater the disaster. Because to place absolute trust on another human being is in itself a disaster, both ways, since each human being is a ship that must sail its own course, even if it go in company with another ship.... And yet, love is the greatest thing between human beings.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love Is, Way, Ships

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Kangaroo”, p.201, Jester House Publishing

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• You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are.

  Joss Whedon

  Journey, People, Giving

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• She felt as if she had strayed into a fairy tale, as full of peril as of wonder, a place where anything could happen.

  Kate Forsyth

  Fairy Tale, Wonder, Tales

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• One has only to set a loved human being against the fact that we are all in peril all the time to get back a sense of proportion. What does anything matter compared to the reality of love and its span, so brief at best, maintained against such odds?

  May Sarton

  Reality, Odds, Doe

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.56, Open Road Media

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• I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more /the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort /to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires /and expires, too soon, too soon /before life itself

  Joseph Conrad

  Love, Heart, Men

  "Youth" (1902)

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• For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.

  Lord Byron

  Grief, Past, Grieving

  George Gordon Byron, “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt. Canto I.”

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• That is why Bias jested with those who were going through the perils of a great storm with him and calling on the gods for help: "Shut up," he said, "so that they do not realize that you are here with me.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Storm, Calling, Helping

  Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

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• It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

  Jean-Francois Regnard

  Courage, Heart, Bravery

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• Military weapons are the means used by the Sage to punish violence and cruelty, to give peace to troublous times, to remove difficulties and dangers, and to succor those who are in peril. Every animal with blood in its veins and horns on its head will fight when it is attacked. How much more so will man, who carries in his breast the faculties of love and hatred, joy and anger! When he is pleased, a feeling of affection springs up within him; when angry, his poisoned sting is brought into play. That is the natural law which governs his being

  Sima Qian

  Spring, Military, War

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• Generally, social networking sites can be hugely promising and beneficial in opening new friendships and vistas and knowledge of the world, but they are also fraught with peril, when young people are reckless or headless.

  Richard Blumenthal

  People, New Friendship, Networking

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• Our masks, always in peril of smearing or cracking, in need of continuous check in the mirror or silverware, keep us in thrall to ourselves, concerned with our surfaces.

  Carolyn Kizer

  Mirrors, Needs, Faces

  Carolyn Kizer (2002). “Cool, Calm, and Collected: Poems 1960-2000”, p.115, Copper Canyon Press

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• When I have occasionally set myself to consider the different distractions of men, the pains and perils to which they expose themselves I have discovered that all the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.

  Blaise Pascal

  Pain, Men, Facts

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.52, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The more keenly we are awake to the perils of life, the higher and grander is the possibility of being truly brave.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Courage, Brave, Possibility

  Henry Van Dyke (2007). “Counsels by the Way”, p.90, Wildside Press LLC

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• The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.

  Albert Einstein

  Evil, World, Tolerate

  Einstein's tribute to Pablo Casals on March 30, 1953. "Conversations with Casals". Book by Josep Maria Corredor, p. 11, archive.org. 1957.

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