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• Nowadays, by contrast, Christianity specialises in soft-focus mood music; its threats of hell, its demand for poverty and chastity, its doctrine that only the few will be saved and the many damned, have been shed, replaced by strummed guitars and saccharine smiles. It has reinvented itself so often, and with such breathtaking hypocrisy, in the interests of retaining its hold on the gullible, that a medieval monk who woke today, like Woody Allen's Sleeper, would not be able to recognise the faith that bears the same name as his own.

  A.C. Grayling

  Guitar, Names, Hypocrisy

  "Can an atheist be a fundamentalist?" by A. C. Grayling, www.theguardian.com. May 3, 2006.

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• As a goalkeeper you need to be good at organising the people in front of you and motivating them. You need to see what's going on and react to the threats. Just like a good manager in business.

  Peter Shilton

  People, Good Man, Needs

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• The Iraqi regime is a threat of unique urgency. [...] It has developed weapons of mass death.

  George W. Bush

  Unique, Weapons, Regimes

  Speech on Iraq Resolution, The Rose Garden, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. October 2, 2002.

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• [Saddam Hussein] is a threat because he is dealing with al-Qaeda. . . . A true threat facing our country is that an al-Qaeda-type network trained and armed by Saddam could attack America and not leave one fingerprint.

  George W. Bush

  Country, America, Hussein

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• Today the Iraqi and Afghan people are on the path to democracy and freedom. The governments that are rising will pose no threat to others. Instead of harboring terrorists, they're fighting terrorist groups. And this progress is good for the long-term security of all of us.

  George W. Bush

  Fighting, Government, Long

  United Nations General Assembly Address, delivered 21 September 2004, New York, NY

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• The real threat to U.S. military power is nuclear proliferation, because if every little country has nuclear weapons it becomes very tricky for the United States to engage in military action.

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  Country, Real, Military

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• The question in brief, is whether democracy and freedom are values to be preserved or threats to be avoided . . . democracy and freedom are more than values to be treasured; they may well be essential to survival.

  Noam Chomsky

  Survival, Democracy, Essentials

  "Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media". Documentary, 1992.

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• In war, where imperfect intelligence, the threat of a catastrophe, and the number of accidents are incomparably greater than any other human endeavor, the amount of missed opportunities, so to speak, is therefore bound to be greater.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Opportunity, Numbers

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.502, Princeton University Press

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• The computer is a greater threat to the [nuclear] family than all the abortion laws and gay rights movements and pornography in the world.

  Alvin Toffler

  Gay, Rights, Law

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• The spread of nuclear weapons is the greatest threat facing the country-and I would argue facing humanity.

  Joe Biden

  Country, Humanity, Nuclear

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• The greatest threat that the world faces is a nuclear Iran...

  Mitt Romney

  Nuclear Iran, World, Faces

  "Interview with Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney". "The Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer, www.realclearpolitics.com. March 26, 2012.

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• The biggest threat to global stability is the potential for food crises in poor countries to cause government collapse.

  Lester R. Brown

  Country, Government, Causes

  "Could Food Shortages Bring Down Civilization" by Lester R. Brown, www.scientificamerican.com. May 2009.

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• The most profound security threat we face today is global warming....climate change has the capacity to change the way all of us live.

  William J. Clinton

  Profound, Climate, Today

  "Clinton: Climate change 'greatest threat'" by Hannah K. Strange, www.upi.com. May 11, 2006.

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• Once we begin to flee the things that threaten and burden us, there is no end to fleeing. God's solution is surprising. He offers rest. But it's a unique form of rest. It's to rest in him in the midst of our threats and our burdens. It's discovering, as David did in seasons of distress, that God is our rock and refuge right in the thick of our situation.

  Mark Buchanan

  Unique, Rocks, Fleeing

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• The greatest threat to America is not foreign terrorists, its domestic morons.

  John Fugelsang

  America, Terrorist, Moron

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• There is that unpredictability of the seasons that I enjoy. I like the threat of a tornado. I like the threat of four feet of snow.

  Paul Westerberg

  Feet, Snow, Four

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• We stand today at a unique and extraordinary moment. The crisis in the Persian Gulf , as grave as it is, also offers a rare opportunity to move toward an historic period of cooperation. Out of these troubled times, our fifth objective - a new world order - can emerge: a new era - freer from the threat of terror, stronger in the pursuit of justice, and more secure in the quest for peace. An era in which the nations of the world, East and West, North and South, can prosper and live in harmony.

  George H. W. Bush

  Moving, Unique, Opportunity

  George H. W. Bush, Brent Scowcroft (2011). “A World Transformed”, p.370, Vintage

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• Most people are basically a victim of the circumstances of their life. They have things like 9/11, they have terrorism threats, they have new war threats, they have economy problems, and they think, 'What can I do? I'm basically a victim.'

  Stephen Covey

  War, Thinking, People

  Interview with Kyra Phillips, www.cnn.com. January 9, 2003.

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• It is... very helpful to think of adversity not so much as a threat to our peace of mind but rather as the very means by which patience is attained.

  Dalai Lama

  Mean, Adversity, Thinking

  The Dalai Lama, Alexander Norman (2010). “Ancient Wisdom, Modern World: Ethics for the New Millennium”, p.68, Hachette UK

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• There should be full engagement to protect our country from a grave threat, which is the weakest foreign policy since Jimmy Carter.

  Jeb Bush

  Country, Engagement, Should

  "RNC chair blasts CNBC's 'crap sandwich' debate; Bush, Kasich call out GOP rivals". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. October 29, 2015.

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• In many places around the world, all over the U.S. and Europe there are active nuclear power plants. And for many years during the Cold War the threat of nuclear war was a permanent fear. There's always the concern that human kind is biting off more than they can chew in harnessing nuclear power.

  Oren Peli

  War, Years, Europe

  "‘Chernobyl Diaries’ & ‘Paranormal Activity’ Writer/Producer Oren Peli". Interview with Roth Cornet, screenrant.com. May 25, 2012.

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• I got the bad press and the blogging and the email threats because people really didn't understand. They thought I was anti-gay. That's not true at all. My spiritual mom has a gay son. Even he was telling his friends "No, that's not true. She's so accepting of me." That doesn't mean I accept his lifestyle. It means I accept him as a human person and as a creation of God and a person of value.

  Patricia Mauceri

  Mom, Spiritual, Mean

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• There is no nation on the planet better able to adapt to this change than our nation. We must able to work collaboratively with others. We must anticipate these threats before they happen. This is the new sort of challenge, the new sort of threat that does, in fact, require new thinking, fresh approaches and new leadership.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Challenges, Doe

  Source: time.com

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• I think that we have to look at ISIS as the leading threat of an international terror network. It cannot be contained, it must be defeated.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Isis, Looks

  "Foreign Policy". wsj.exclone.com.

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• As Americans, we have shown ourselves to have the greatest military on the face of the planet, but we are not so very good at anticipating threats and appreciating just how difficult it is to build up stable democracies, to make the investments and sustainable development that we must as a nation if we are to attack the root causes of these sorts of instability.

  Martin O'Malley

  Military, Roots, Appreciate

  The CBS Democratic debate, www.washingtonpost.com. November 15, 2015.

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