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• One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

  Winston Churchill

  Running, Trying, Double Standard

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• I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday.

  Noel Coward

  Birthday, Tuesday, Age

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• My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

  Quentin Crisp

  Fathers Day, Mother, Dad

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• I could be wrong, but I think heterosexual marriage is threatened more by heterosexuals. I don't know why gay marriage challenges my marriage in any way.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Gay, Thinking, Challenges

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• I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English.

  Jasper Fforde

  Book, Assuming, Academic

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• Part of why the Tea Party so deeply threatened the elite media is the tea party looked around and suddenly realized, there are more of us than there are of them.

  Newt Gingrich

  Party, Media, Tea

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• Those powers that control the tent are not threatened at all by any activity that you engage in, in the shadows, that's not moving toward the tent. And I am rather convinced that we have a generation that is so preoccupied with life in the shadows, they never even focus on getting to the sunlight where you open up the big tent.

  Jesse Jackson

  Moving, Focus, Shadow

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• I think people feel threatened by homosexuality. The problem isn't about gay people, the problem is about the attitude towards gay people. People think that all gays are Hannibal Lecters. But gay people are sons and daughters, politicians and doctors, American heroes and daughters of American heroes.

  Hollis Stacy

  Daughter, Mother, Attitude

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• People who don't read books a lot are threatened by books.

  Paul Theroux

  Book, People

  "I don't think there's genius in my writing". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2001.

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• Childhood is not dead. Children were worse off when we were hunter-gatherers; they were threatened in medieval times and exploited during the Industrial Revolution. Was it any better in the time of Charles Kingsley or Charles Dickens?

  Robert Winston

  Children, Childhood, Hunters

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• If the fires of freedom and civil liberties burn low in other lands they must be made brighter in our own. If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free. If in other lands the eternal truths of the past are threatened by intolerance we must provide a safe place for their perpetuation.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Freedom, Book, Past

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7”, p.418, Best Books on

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• Kindness was the last thing she needed. She had to stay in the icy place, the numb place, and their warmth threatened to melt her just when she needed the cold.

  Janet Fitch

  Kindness, Icy, Lasts

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• Pritkin gave me a little shake and I eyed him without favor. The only other occasions when I had been dragged back in time, the trip had been triggered by proximity to a person whose past was being threatened. I have to tell you,” I said frankly, “if someone is trying to mess with your conception or something, I’m not feeling a pressing need to intervene.

  Karen Chance

  Past, Feelings, Trying

  Karen Chance (2011). “Cassie Palmer Novels 1-5”, p.395, Penguin

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• The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames.

  Virginia Woolf

  Flames, Literature, World

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.859, Delphi Classics

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• [Stephanie] 'You see, Mrs. Mayer was going on about George's lodge, and how he wanted to be buried with his ring, and so Grandma had to check the ring out, and in the process broke off one of George's fingers. Turns out the finger was wax. Somehow Kenny got into the mortuary this morning, left Spiro a note, and chopped off George's finger. And then while I was at the mall tonight with Mary Lou, Kenny threatened me in the shoe department. That must have been when he put the finger in my pocket.' [Morelli] 'Have you been drinking?

  Janet Evanovich

  Morning, Drinking, Grandma

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• Something caught in her throat at this second thanks, when she'd threatened him so brutally. When you're a monster, she thought, you are thanked and praised for not behaving like a monster. She would like to restrain from cruelty and receive no admiration for it.

  Kristin Cashore

  Monsters, Thanks, Admiration

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I don’t like being threatened, lied to, or manipulated. You’d do well to remember that. (Simone) Or what? You’re going to snivel at me? (Xypher)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Remember, Lied, Wells

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Dream Chaser”, p.46, Macmillan

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• ...the word occult, despite conjuring images of devil worship, actually means ‘hidden’ or ‘obscured.’ In times of religious oppression, knowledge that was counterdoctrinal had to be kept hidden or ‘occult,’ and because the church felt threatened by this, they redefined anything ‘occult’ as evil, and the prejudice survived.

  Dan Brown

  Religious, Mean, Evil

  "The Lost Symbol". Ch. 6. Book by Dan Brown, 2009.

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• I, for one, am exhausted. I’ve been threatened, beaten, bitten and killed, and that was just in the last hour. (Jericho)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Lasts, Exhausted, Hours

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Dream Warrior”, p.96, Hachette UK

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• If Sasha’s threatened, Astrid’s upset. If Astrid’s upset, I’m going to kill whatever’s upsetting her until she’s happy again. (Zarek)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Upset, Happy Again, Ifs

  Sherrilyn Kenyon, J. R. Ward, Susan Squires, Dianna Love (2008). “Dead After Dark”, p.46, Macmillan

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• I swear on St. Francis, the patron saint of all animals.” Seeing Poppy’s hesitation, Beatrix added enthusiastically, “If a band of pirates kidnapped me and took me to their ship and threatened to make me walk the plank over a shiver of starving sharks unless I told them your secret, I still wouldn’t tell it. If I were tied by a villain and thrown before a herd of stampeding horses all shod in iron, and the only way to keep from being trampled was to tell the villain your secret, I—

  Lisa Kleypas

  Horse, Animal, Sharks

  Lisa Kleypas (2009). “Tempt Me at Twilight”, p.54, Macmillan

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• Since I speak and write about this a good deal, I am often asked at public meetings, in what sometimes seems to me a rather prurient way, whether I myself or my family have 'ever been threatened' by jihadists. My answer is that yes, I have, and so has everyone else in the audience, if they have paid enough attention to the relevant bin-Ladenist broadcasts to notice the fact.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Writing, Facts, Attention

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.1497, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• You know, your sarcasm isn’t appreciated right now. I’ve been drugged, beaten, nearly raped, saved, drugged again, hijacked, and now threatened by you. Tell me, what else should I look forward to? Torture, or just a good maiming? (Kiara)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Sarcasm, Looks, Appreciated

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Born of Night”, Macmillan

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• The intruder hesitated, turned, and anchored itself in the corner, where the ceiling met the wall. It sat there, fastened to the paneling by enormous yellow talons, still and silent like a gargoyle in full sunlight. I took a swig from the bottle and set it so I could still see the creatures reflection. Nude and hairless, it didn't carry a single ounce of fat on its lean frame. Its skin stretched so tight over the cords of muscle, it threatened to snap. Like a thin layer of wax melted over an anatomy model. Your friendly neighbourhood Spiderman.

  Ilona Andrews

  Wall, Reflection, Yellow

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• If you identify with a mental position, then if you are wrong, your mind-based sense of self is seriously threatened with annihilation. So you as the ego cannot afford to be wrong. To be wrong is to die. Wars have been fought over this, and countless relationships have broken down.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, War, Self

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.44, New World Library

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