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• When the stormy winds of life threaten to knock you down, may you have the courage to spread your wings and fly!

  Lance Wubbels

  Wind, Wings, May

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• The frequent employment of one's will power masters all organs of movement and trains them to perform feats which otherwise would have been difficult,painful and even impossible. The man becomes independent and self-reliant; he will never be a coward,and, when real danger threatens,he is the one who is looked up to by others. The knowledge of one's strength entails a real mastery over oneself; it breeds energy and courage,helps one over the most difficult tasks of life, and procures contentment and true enjoyment of living.

  George Hackenschmidt

  Strength, Courage, Pain

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• I am not here to pass civilities or compliments with you, but on other business. I have stood your meanness as long as I intend to. You have played the part of a damned scoundrel, and are a coward, and if you were any part of a man I would slap your jaws and force you to resent it. You may as well not issue any more orders to me, for I will not obey them... and as I say to you that if you ever again try to interfere with me or cross my path it will be at the peril of your life.

  Nathan Bedford Forrest

  War, Men, Order

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• Heard joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain. Doctor says, "Treatment is simple. Great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go and see him. That should pick you up." Man bursts into tears. Says, "But doctor...I am Pagliacci.

  Alan Moore

  Lying, Men, Simple

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• If I was just normally intelligent, I could probably get away with it - but I'm fiercely intelligent and that's threatening.

  Sharon Stone

  Intelligent, Get Away, Ifs

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• The President [Barack Obama] became quite emotional about transgender student rights, threatening to pull Department of Education funds from school districts that do not comply with federal regulations. Black children are suspended from school three times more than white children are, and there is no evidence that black children are three times as unruly.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Children, School, Emotional

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• Most people see the world as a threatening place, and, because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place.

  Paulo Coelho

  Motivational, People, Alchemist

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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• Sometimes my fancy gets to floating inside me, threatening to carry me away like a leaf on a wind. Better to be a stone.

  Shannon Hale

  Wind, Floating, Stones

  Shannon Hale (2010). “Book of a Thousand Days”, p.98, A&C Black

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• Man moves in all modes, by legs of horses, by wings of winds, by steam, by gas of balloon, by electricity, and stands on tiptoe threatening to hunt the eagle in his own element.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Horse, Moving, Technology

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.419, Harvard University Press

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• The system of patriarchy is a historic construct; it has a beginning; it will have an end. Its time seems to have nearly run its course—it no longer serves the needs of men or women and in its inextricable linkage to militarism, hierarchy, and racism it threatens the very existence of life on earth. What will come after, what kind of structure will be the foundation for alternate forms of social organization we cannot yet know. We are living in an age of unprecedented transformation. We are in the process of becoming.

  Gerda Lerner

  Life, Running, Men

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• American Education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current obsession with making our schools work like a business may be the worst of them, for it threatens to destroy public education. Who will Stand up to the tycoons and politicians and tell them so?

  Diane Ravitch

  Education, Business, School

  Diane Ravitch (2016). “The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education”, p.236, Basic Books

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• To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment that promises us adventure, power, joy, growth, transformation of ourselves and the world - and at the same time that threatens to destroy everything we have, everything we know, everything we are.

  Marshall Berman

  Adventure, Power, Joy

  Marshall Berman (1983). “All that is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity”, p.15, Verso

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• We Americans have many grave problems to solve, many threatening evils to fight, and many deeds to do, if, as we hope and believe, we have the wisdom, the strength, and the courage and the virtue to do them. But we must face facts as they are. We must neither surrender ourselves to a foolish optimism, nor succumb to a timid and ignoble pessimism.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Believe, Fighting, Optimism

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.58, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The smallest decisions made had such profound repercussions. One ten-minute wait could save a life… Or end it… One wrong turn down the right street or one seemingly unimportant conversation, and everything was changed. It wasn’t right that each lifetime was defined, ruined, ended, and made by such seemingly innocuous details. A major life-threatening event should come with a flashing warning sign that either said ABANDON ALL HOPE or SAFETY AHEAD. It was the cruelest joke of all that no one could see the most vicious curves until they were over the edge, falling into the abyss below.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Fall, Curves, Safety

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.344, St. Martin's Griffin

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• For many people, change is more threatening than challenging. They see it as the destroyer of what is familiar and comfortable rather than the creator of what is new and exciting.

  Nido R Qubein

  People, Challenges, Exciting

  Nido R. Qubein (1997). “Stairway to Success: The Complete Blueprint for Personal and Professional Achievement”, Wiley

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• When you teach a man to hate and fear his brother, when you teach that he is a lesser man because of his color or his beliefs or the policies he pursues, when you teach that those who differ from you threaten your freedom or your job or your family, then you also learn to confront others not as fellow citizens but as enemies...

  Robert Kennedy

  Brother, Jobs, Hate

  Robert F. Kennedy's Speech On the Mindless Menace of Violence at the City Club of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio, www.jfklibrary.org. April 5, 1968.

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• Every threatening of God, as well as every promise shall be fulfilled.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Promise, Wells, Fulfilled

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• I voice my opinions on social media and I have people threatening me with violence. It is troubling but I can fight back, which is good.

  Margaret Cho

  Fighting, Media, Voice

  "Margaret Cho Goes psyCHO". Interview with Jerry Nunn, chicago.gopride.com. November 20, 2015.

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• ...that standing army can never be formidable (threatening) to the liberties of the people, while there is a large body of citizens, little if at all inferior to them in the use of arms.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Army, Gun, Law

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• We have ripped the humanity out of our companies. It's threatening the very underpinnings of our society.

  Paul Tudor Jones

  Humanity, Our Society, Company

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• People who are insecure about themselves will avoid social comparisons that are potentially threatening to their self-esteem

  Albert Bandura

  Self Esteem, Insecure, People

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• Remember this, and remember this well: when someone is telling the TRUTH and exposing information that is meant to be hidden from the masses, the side that is being attacked and accused will use all their resources and associations to try to discredit and discount the professional and moral character of the person revealing the threatening information. They will do everything to make that person look smaller than they really are.

  Suzy Kassem

  Character, Trying, Looks

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• Doing nothing about climate change is still a fairly common affliction, even in this day and age. What to do with those people, who are together threatening everybody's existence on this planet? Clearly we don't really think they should be blown up, that's just a joke for the mini-movie, but maybe a little amputating would be a good place to start?

  Franny Armstrong

  Real, Thinking, Years

  "There will be blood – watch exclusive of 10:10 campaign's 'No Pressure' film" by Damian Carrington, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2010.

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• Are you threatening to kidnap me?" "If you want to look at it that way," Jace said, "yes.

  Cassandra Clare

  Looks, Want, Way

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “Sample of the CITYs”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• Appeasement does not work. As was the case in the 1930s, we see in Saddam Hussein an aggressive dictator threatening his neighbors.

  George H. W. Bush

  Presidential, Doe, Hussein

  George H.W. Bush (2009). “Speaking of Freedom: The Collected Speeches”, p.123, Simon and Schuster

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