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• And that's how we ended up discovering the evil horses that threatened all of humanity.

  Katherine Applegate

  Horse, Evil, Humanity

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• In prehistoric times, Homo sapiens was deeply endangered. Early humans were less fleet of foot, with fewer natural weapons and less well-honed senses than all the predators that threatened them. Moreover, they were hampered in their movements by the need to protect their uniquely immature young - juicy meals for any hungry beast.

  Robert Winston

  Feet, Immature, Meals

  "Philip Roth was wrong" by Robert Winston, www.theguardian.com. December 16, 2005.

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• At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or my legitimacy. Because I know who I am very strongly, and I think that's what geek culture can reinforce.

  Felicia Day

  Thinking, Who I Am, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A capacity for inferiority in the growing adult is threatened by the temptation by squander that capacity ruthlessly, to revel in hallowness. The syndrom especially plaques anyone who lives behind a mask. An elephant in her disquise as a human princess, a scarecrow with painted features, a glittering tiara under which to glow and glide in anonymous glamour. A witch's hat, a wizards stole, a scholars gown, a soldiers dress sartorials. A hundred ways to duck the question: how will I live with myself now that I nkow what I know.

  Gregory Maguire

  Princess, Elephants, Ducks

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• The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

  John F. Kennedy

  Freedom, Men, Rights

  1963 On sending national guardsmen to ensure peaceful integration at the University of Alabama. Address to the nation, 11 Jun.

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• A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed.

  Desmond Tutu

  Knowing, Ubuntu, Self

  Desmond Tutu (2012). “No Future Without Forgiveness”, p.35, Random House

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• It was like discovering that your innermost fires and terrors, the things you believed no one else could fathom, were in fact the basis of a recognized philosophy. Some part of you felt intimately invaded, threatened; some other part fell to its knees and sobbed in gratitude that it was no longer alone.

  Poppy Z. Brite

  Gratitude, Philosophy, Fire

  Poppy Z. Brite (1997). “Exquisite Corpse”, p.155, Simon and Schuster

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• Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold... brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds.

  Victor Hugo

  Stars, Dark, Clouds

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• I bear my burden proudly for all to see, to conquer prejudice and ignorance and hate with knowledge and sincerity and love. Whenever you are threatened by a hostile presence, you emit a thick cloud of love like an octopus squirts out ink.

  William S. Burroughs

  Hate, Ignorance, Clouds

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.78, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• When we dislike someone, or feel threatened by someone, the natural tendency is to focus on something we dislike about the person, something that irritates us. Unfortunately, when we do this--instead of seeing the deeper beauty of the person and giving them energy--we take energy away and actually do them harm. All they know is that they suddenly feel less beautiful and less confident, and it is because we sapped their energy.

  James Redfield

  Beautiful, Dislike Someone, Giving

  James Redfield (1993). “The celestine prophecy: an adventure”, Atticus Press & Company (AL)

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• And a refrigerator may hold a basket of strawberries, which would be important if a maniac said to you, "If you don't give me a basket of strawberries right now, I'm going to poke you with this large stick." But when the two elder Baudelaires and Quigley Quagmire opened the refrigerator, they found nothing that would help someone who was wounded, dying of thirst, or being threatened by a strawberry-crazed, stick-carrying maniac.

  Daniel Handler

  Two, Giving, Important

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• People are only mean when they are threatened.

  Mitch Albom

  Mean, People

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.154, Broadway Books

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• Margaret Atwood, the Canadian novelist, once asked a group of women at a university why they felt threatened by men. The women said they were afraid of being beaten, raped, or killed by men. She then asked a group of men why they felt threatened by women. They said they were afraid women would laugh at them.

  Molly Ivins

  Women, Laughing, Groups

  Molly Ivins (1991). “Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?”, Random House Incorporated

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• We don't really know what we believe in or care about until what we believe in or care about is threatened, challenged, or measured.

  Sheri L. Dew

  Believe, Care, Knows

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• I don't mean to be rude—" he began, in a tone that threatened rudeness in every syllable. "Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often," Dumbledore finished the sentence gravely.

  J. K. Rowling

  Mean, Rude, Tone

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”, p.45, Pottermore

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• He took her by the shoulders and pulled her closer to him, his fingers knotting in the fabric of her dress. Even more than in the attic, she felt caught in the eddy of a powerful wave that threatened to pull her over and under, to crush and break her, to wear her down to softness as the sea might wear down a piece of glass.

  Cassandra Clare

  Crush, Powerful, Glasses

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.436, Simon and Schuster

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• The most threatened group in human societies as in animal societies is the unmated male: the unmated male is more likely to wind up in prison or in an asylum or dead than his mated counterpart. He is less likely to be promoted at work and he is considered a poor credit risk.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Animal, Wind, Risk

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• Israel is our ally and in that we've made a very strong commitment to support Israel, we will support Israel if her security is threatened.

  George W. Bush

  Strong, Commitment, Israel

  "Bush Announces New Intel Chief". Announcement, www.washingtonpost.com. February 17, 2005.

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• This nation is on a course where if we don't do something about it, get federal situation, the fiscal policy [under control], we're Greece. We're a banana republic. Our status as a nation is threatened by what we’ve got coming at us in the area of deficit and debt. And it’s only a few more years, at the most, that we have to work with here before the market says, ‘Sorry, your currency is something we can not continue to defend.’

  Judd Gregg

  Sorry, Years, Political

  "'We're Greece' in a Few Years: Sen. Gregg". www.cnbc.com. November 3, 2010.

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• I'll never have a best friend who is a man. It just doesn't work that way. So many times young girls will be like, 'I'm a guy's girl.' And I'm like, 'No, you're not. There's no way a man can understand you like a woman, and you're a guy's girl because you're threatened by other women.' I was like that.

  Jemima Kirke

  Friendship, Girl, Men

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Some of the most flowery praise you hear on the subject of teams is only hypocrisy. Managers learn to talk a good game about teams even when they're secretly threatened by the whole concept.

  Tom DeMarco

  Team, Games, Hypocrisy

  Tom DeMarco (1997). “The deadline: a novel about project management”, Dorset House

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• The world is not threatened by evil people, but by those who allow evil to take place.

  Albert Einstein

  Evil People, World, People

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• People who play conventional music are threatened by electronica and don't consider it to be as valuable as what they do.

  Bill Laswell

  Play, People, Valuable

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• An arc of crisis stretches along the shores of the Indian Ocean, with fragile social and political structures in a region of vital importance to us threatened with fragmentation. The resulting political chaos could well be filled by elements hostile to our values and sympathetic to our adversaries.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Ocean, Political, Elements

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• People are only mean when they're threatened… and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does. Even people who have jobs in our economy are threatened, because they worry about losing them. And when you get threatened, you start looking out only for yourself. You start making money a god. It is all part of this culture.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Jobs, Mean, People

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