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• Anyone who is more interested in human beings than in the rules is a threat to the system.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Humans, Human Beings

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• The thoughtful believer recalls God's faithfulness in the past when confronted by any new threat. Part of spiritual maturity is strong sense of one's own history.

  Max Anders

  Spiritual, Strong, Maturity

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• God wanted Israel, as He wants Christians, to learn to utterly abhor and detest anything that had the potential of coming between them and their God. The believer's enemies are typically internal rather than external, and they pose a powerful threat to spiritual health and progress.

  Max Anders

  Christian, Spiritual, Powerful

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• God delights in providing His people with material gain and comfort, although prosperity can pose a threat to spiritual well-being.

  Max Anders

  Spiritual, People, Comfort

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• Government today, far from protecting property, is its main threat.

  Roger Pilon

  Government, Today, Property

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• It is way less certain to be a wonderful business in the future. The threat is alternative mediums of information. Every newspaper is scrambling to parlay their existing advantage into dominance on the Internet. But it is way less sure [that this will occur] than the certainty 20 years ago that the basic business would grow steadily, so there's more downside risk. The perfectly fabulous economics of this business could become grievously impaired.

  Charlie Munger

  Years, Risk, Alternatives

  "Charlie Munger Speaks - Part 2". Charlie Munger's comments on businesses at the 2000 Wesco Financial Annual Meeting, www.fool.com. May 15, 2000.

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• Brainstorm new interfaces that could introduce opportunities or threats to your business.

  Nir Eyal

  Opportunity, Introducing, Interfaces

  Nir Eyal (2014). “Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products”, p.154, Penguin Canada

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• I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. If I had to guess at what our biggest existential threat is, it's probably that. So we need to be very careful...With artificial intelligence we're summoning the demon.

  Elon Musk

  Thinking, Needs, Existential

  "Elon Musk: artificial intelligence is our biggest existential threat" by Samuel Gibbs, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2014.

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• The US government should be the champion for the internet, not a threat. They need to be much more transparent about what they're doing, or otherwise people will believe the worst.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Believe, Government, People

  Facebook post by Mark Zuckerberg, www.facebook.com. March 14, 2014.

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• Police officers today are a protected class, one no politician wants to oppose. Law enforcement interests may occasionally come up short on budgetary issues, but legislatures rarely if ever pass new laws to hold police more accountable, to restrict their powers, or to make them more transparent. In short, police today embody all of the threats the Founders feared were posed by standing armies, plus a few additional ones they couldn't have anticipated.

  Radley Balko

  Army, Class, Issues

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• Thanks to the tabloid campaigns I have many death threats and I was very pleased to get another one the other day.

  Tony Benn

  Campaigns, Tabloids, Thanks

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• In the question of peace, people spoke up and demonstrated for peace and against the threat of war, the threat of atomic war.

  Stefan Heym

  War, People, Spokes

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• If my sense of security lies in my reputation or in the things I have, my life will be in a constant state of threat and jeopardy-a fear that these possessions may be lost, stolen, or devalued. If I'm in the presence of someone of greater net worth, fame, or status, I feel inferior. If I'm in the presence of someone of lesser net worth, fame or status, I feel superior. My sense of self-worth constantly fluctu-ates. I don't have any sense of constancy, anchorage, or persistent selfhood. I am constantly trying to protect and insure my assets, properties, securities, position, or reputation.

  Stephen Covey

  Lying, Self Worth, Trying

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• I believe that the dysfunctional Muslim family constitutes a real threat to the very fabric of western life. It is in the family that children are groomed to practise, promote and pass on the norms of their parents' culture.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Children, Real, Believe

  "Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations". Book by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2010.

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• We are now at a point where because we in fact have been successful at stopping a number of plots, a threat has evolved. We do see these lone-wolf actors. We do see these encouragements for troubled individuals to pick up a gun and act out of this ideology.

  Barack Obama

  Encouragement, Successful, Gun

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• We do want people to know if in fact we learn of an incident that's focused on a particular city.If we learn of long-term planning, that's focused on a particular industry or infrastructure. And so we feel we have an obligation to let people know if we have information of a credible threat or not.

  Barack Obama

  Cities, Long, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Does the terror threat we're facing grow out of a perversion of Islam, or does it represent and extreme, but durable, strain of the religion.

  Chuck Todd

  Islam, Doe, Terror

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• When we talked about a wall, right, to try to keep out this threat. The problem is that these are ideas. And they are filtering throughout the world. And it was naïve, and I think ultimately, the reason why we, as Muslims, stood on Friday and went to the mosque and took the risks on our own lives, is because we've had enough. I think the world has had enough.

  Dalia Mogahed

  Friday, Wall, Thinking

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Fascistic leaders are aggressively macho and chauvinistic. They are xenophobic about people who they portray as outsiders or some sort of threat to the nation or as weaklings they can denounce.

  Rachel Maddow

  People, Leader, Outsiders

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• The target of preventive war must have several characteristics. It must be virtually defenceless; it must be important enough to be worth the trouble; it must be possible to portray it as the ultimate evil and an imminent threat to our survival.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Evil, Survival

  Noam Chomsky (2008). “The Essential Chomsky”, p.378, The New Press

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• Arcitc Harp seal pup populations are declining as they are commercially hunted for oil and fur and global warming causes the ice where pups are born to break up and melt. Now these sweet and adorable pups face yet another human threat: oil spills.

  Zoe Helene

  Sweet, Ice, Oil

  "Winter Wonderland: Artisan Gifts for Arctic Wildlife" by Zoe Helene, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 21, 2013.

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• Four hundred top-decision makers listed the myriad looming threats to global security, including famine, terrorism, inequality, disease, poverty and climate change. Yet when we tried to address each diverse force, we found them all attached to one universal security risk: fresh water.

  Margaret Catley-Carlson

  Water, Decision, Risk

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• Both we and the Soviets face the common threat of nuclear destruction and there is no likelihood that either capitalism or communism will survive a nuclear war.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  War, Faces, Nuclear

  "The Ashes of Capitalism and the Ashes of Communism". "Quest for Peace: an Introduction". Book edited by John M. Whiteley, 1986.

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• I was at the first Minor Threat show, and you could tell, 'This band is going to be the king of the town.' It was obvious. They were so good.

  Henry Rollins

  Kings, Band, Firsts

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• We must learn the difficult lesson that the future of Mankind will only be tolerable when our course, in world affairs as in others, is based upon justice and law rather than the threat of naked power.

  Albert Einstein

  Law, Justice, Naked

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.301, Princeton University Press

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