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• In 1957, “West Side Story” had introduced the musical to the reckless dark side of teen-age life; “Bye Bye Birdie,” set in Sweet Apple, Ohio, where the citizens apparently dress mostly in chartreuse, mauve, orange, periwinkle, and turquoise, was a walk on the bright side.

  John Lahr

  Goodbye, Sweet, Dark

  "Can’t Stop the Beat" by John Lahr, www.newyorker.com. October 26, 2009.

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• The longer I live, the more I am certified that men, in all that relates to their own health, have not common sense! whether it be their pride, or their impatience, or their obstinancy, or their ingrained spirit of contradiction, that stupefies and misleads them, the result is always a certain amount of idiocy, or distraction in their dealings with their own bodies! ... either by their wild impatience of bodily suffering, and the exaggerated moan they make over it, or else by their reckless defiance of it, and neglect of every dictate of prudence!

  Jane Welsh Carlyle

  Pride, Men, Common Sense

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• The most reckless and treacherous of all theorists is he who professes to let facts and figures speak for themselves.

  Alfred Marshall

  Facts, Speak, Figures

  Alfred Marshall (1956). “Selected Works of Alfred Marshall for a Memorial Collection for Professor Ralph L. Dewey, 1901-1959: Memorials of Alfred Marshall”

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• The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.

  Joseph Conrad

  Discovery, America, Greed

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• Poverty makes people do reckless things, but [the rich] do worse to protect their [interests]

  Immortal Technique

  People, Poverty, Rich

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• I am going to try speaking some reckless words, and I want you to try to listen recklessly.

  Zhuangzi

  Creativity, Imagination, Trying

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• The Enormous Room seems to me to be the book that has nearest approached the mood of reckless adventure in which men will reach the white heat of imagination needed to fuse the soggy disjointed complexity of the industrial life about us into seething fluid of creation. There can be no more playing safe.

  John Dos Passos

  Book, Creativity, Adventure

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• One side thinks the president'€™s request for war-making powers is too brazen and even reckless. The other side thinks it is too spineless and probably ineffectual. 'It does not seem to have resonated with anyone,' said Senator Susan Collins, Republican of Maine and a member of the Intelligence Committee. 'I haven't found any colleague who'€™s been enthusiastic about it.'

  Peter Baker

  War, Thinking, President

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• Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve
  purpose... one of the great problems of history is that the concepts of love and power have usually been contrasted as opposites --- polar opposites --- so that love is identified with a resignation of power, and power with a denial of love... What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love Is, Opposites, Justice

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• Love is a terrible weakness. It gives your enemies a perfect target, clouds your judgement, makes you reckless... and that's on a good day.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Good Day, Love Is, Clouds

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• If you would venture, let your mind be bold . . . not reckless but bold.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Mind, Venture, Ifs

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• The effort to make financial or political profit out of the destruction of character can only result in public calamity. Gross and reckless assaults on character, whether on the stump or in newspaper, magazine, or book, create a morbid and vicious public sentiment, and at the same time act as a profound deterrent to able men of normal sensitiveness and tend to prevent them from entering the public service at any price.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Book, Character, Men

  The Man with the Muck-rake, delivered 14 April 1906

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• A wise man does not try to hurry history. Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.

  Adlai Stevenson I

  Wise, War, Men

  "Speeches of Adlai Stevenson" by Adlai Ewing Stevenson, (p. 39), 1952.

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• Today, hundreds of thousands of AIDS patients are under medical treatment, which is a great advancement. But it makes some people reckless.

  Yoweri Museveni

  People, Today, Advancement

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• In some ways the most appalling thing of all, that Trump continues to question the fact of a very serious Russian attack on the core of our political system. I mean, I don't know how you get more reckless and dangerous than that. And you know, the president's first obligation is to defend the country. And in this respect, he doesn't seem to be interested in doing that.

  Max Boot

  Country, Mean, Political

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• Sadly, anarchy has gotten such a bad name. We don't really see much evidence of it because people associate it with reckless abandon.

  Bell Hooks

  Names, People, Anarchy

  Source: nefac.net

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• I had grown accustomed to life being interesting and adventure ridden and, rather childishly, I refused to believe that this must necessarily come to an end and that the rest of my life should be a sort of penance for all the reckless, irresponsible, and immensely fun things I’d done before.

  J. Maarten Troost

  Fun, Believe, Adventure

  J. Maarten Troost (2004). “The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific”, Broadway

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• Life consists of two days:
  one for you and one against you, so when it's for you don't be proud or reckless, and when it's against you be patient, for both days are test for you

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Two, Proud, Tests

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• It's kinda like D.H. Lawrence had this idea of two people meeting on a road, and instead of just passing and glancing away, they decide to accept what he calls the confrontation between their souls. It's like freeing the brave, reckless gods within us all.

  Richard Linklater

  Ideas, Two, People

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• I shall set forth for somewhere, I shall make the reckless choice Some say when they are in voice And tossing so as to scare The white clouds over them on, I shall have less to say, But I shall be none.

  Robert Frost

  Clouds, Voice, White

  Robert Frost, “The Sound Of The Trees”

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• Writer’s block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus, poetry, was born of Medusa when her head was cut off. You have to be reckless when writing. Be as crazy as your conscience allows.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Block, Crazy

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• Alas! it is not till time, with reckless hand, has torn out half the leaves from the Book of Human Life to light the fires of passion with from day to day, that man begins to see that the leaves which remain are few in number.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Book, Passion

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “The prose works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.193

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• I got reckless baby, put you in your place. Next time, maybe rearrange your face.

  Bryan Adams

  Baby, Next, Faces

  Song: Ain't Gonna Cry, Album: Reckless

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• The administration's reckless plan doesn't do one thing to ensure the long term security of social security, rather it undermines our economy. We need a budget and a fiscal policy that reflects the values and interests of America and restores fiscal discipline.

  Debbie Stabenow

  America, Discipline, Long

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• The junior Senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatred of uninformed and credulous people that he has started a prairie fire, which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.

  J. William Fulbright

  War, Fire, People

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

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