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Danger Quotes
"We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility."
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"The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts."
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"The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly."
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"A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand."
49
"In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it."
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"The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark."
22
"There is the danger of over preparation, of loss of spontaneity; over rehearsal is the most terrible thing you can imagine. We do have a very close association between costume and set designer, though. And the cameraman is very important, of course."
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"But it is well to remember that we are dealing with nations every one of which has a direct individual interest to serve, and there is grave danger in an unshared idealism."
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"When we conquer without danger our triumph is without glory."
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"If you wait until those weapons pose a direct, clear, present danger to the United States, you've probably waited too long."
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"In real danger sometimes even a democracy can really keep a secret."
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"We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment."
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"Safety's just danger, out of place."
18
"I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out."
17
"The channel is known only to the natives; so that if any stranger should enter into the bay without one of their pilots he would run great danger of shipwreck."
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"To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another."
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"We don't mind that we still have troops in Germany, or that we still have troops in Japan or Korea. But they are not in danger, and we know that they are in danger in Iraq."
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"Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria."
15
"Everybody is just a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way."
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"Yes, it will go through the disciplines that all puppies go through including house training and puppy walking, then at twelve month old it the training becomes a lot more rigorous which has to be done carefully otherwise you are in danger of stressing the dog."
14
"There is a danger of changing too much in the search for perfection."
14
"The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome."
14
"Terrible fires resemble terrible people. They are unpredictable. They are selfish. they are deadly and ruinous. And no matter where they are prowling, no matter what treachery they are cooking up, they have something in common. They can be stopped."
14
"I wrote the original Mike Hammer as a comic, Mike Danger."
14
"There is less danger in fearing too much than too little."
14
"And so the danger for the housing industry is if we see interest rates rise."
14
"He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger."
14
"I tried to imagine how things could get much worse. The gods were in the Midwest fighting a huge monster that had almost defeated them once before. Poseidon was under siege and losing a war against the sea Titan Oceanus.Kronos was still out there somewhere. Olympus was virtually undefended. The demigods of Camp Half-Blood were on our own with a spy in our midst.Oh, and according to the ancient prophecy, I was going to die when I turned sixteen-which happened to be in five days, the exact same time Typhon was supposed to hit New York. Almost forgot that."
13
"Now we have a whole separate supplier of data for Able Danger who's verifying that same information."
13
"If I'm in danger then it's usually my fault and it's up to me to get myself out of it. I am not in it just to get an adrenalin rush. No way!"
13
"Has there ever been a more revealing moment this year? Let me just put this in fairly simple terms: Al Jazeera now broadcasts the words of Senator Durbin to the Mideast, certainly putting our troops in greater danger. No more needs to be said about the motives of liberals."
13
"About every two minutes a new wave of planes would be over. The motors seemed to grind rather than roar, and to have an angry pulsation like a bee buzzing in blind fury."
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"No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger."
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"Night was spreading slowly around the spinning Earth. It should have been full of pinpricks of light. It was not. There were five billion people down there. What was going to happen soon would make barbarism look like a picnic - hot, nasty, and eventually given over to the ants."
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"The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it."
13
"In liberating Iraq, we have rid the nation and the rest of the world from the danger of Saddam Hussein."
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