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Danger Quotes
"I've always believed the greater danger is not aiming too high, but too low, settling for a bogey rather than shooting for an eagle."
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"As a nation we have the right to decide our own affairs, to mould our own future. This does not pose any danger to anybody. Our nation is fully aware of the responsibility for its own fate in the complicated situation of the contemporary world."
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"The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent."
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"Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger."
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"There is not much danger of the smaller nations if the big nations will behave."
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"There is less danger in fearing too much than too little."
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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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"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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"WikiLeaks presents a clear and present danger to the national security of the United States."
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"The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything."
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"The European model is in danger if we obliterate the principle of personal responsibility."
16
"In liberating Iraq, we have rid the nation and the rest of the world from the danger of Saddam Hussein."
15
"ISIS was not particular about how their soldiers made it to Jannah, so long as they inflicted maximum damage.."
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"By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door."
14
"Religious freedom is too sacred a right to be restricted or prohibited in any degree without convincing proof that a legitimate interest of the state is in grave danger."
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"If you don't get killed, it's a lucky day for anybody."
13
"The closest fires were near enough for us to hear the crackling flames and the yells of firemen. Little fires grew into big ones even as we watched. Big ones died down under the firemen's valor only to break out again later."
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"A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting."
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"Three men sat around a table. All were muscled and similarly greasy and easily identifiable as scum. As he breached the entrance all three were moving, drawing their own guns in surprise.Only one got off a shot."
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"Below us the Thames grew lighter, and all around below were the shadows - the dark shadows of buildings and bridges that formed the base of this dreadful masterpiece."
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"I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for."
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"It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger."
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"Many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!"
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"Tapping a finger against the flesh of her elbow, she deadpanned, "Jacin Clay, there is an assassin under my bed."
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"The commission members themselves were never briefed on Able Danger."
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"A sea setting us upon the ice has brought us close to danger."
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"Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger."
10
"She'd die before she let that demon touch her again. But maybe that was his plan all along."
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"McGovern is so far left that he is in danger of falling off the earth."
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"I believe the world is increasingly in danger of becoming split into groups which cannot communicate with each other, which no longer think of each other as members of the same species."
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"The state is in danger of falling into disrepute due to the evidence of its inadequate resources."
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"I see walking bombs on the streetHearts not beating, but ticking."
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"To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory."
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"We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger."
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"There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation."
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"Oh, why had the Labyrinth brought me here?As soon as I thought this, I chided myself: Of course it would bring me where I least wanted to be. Austin had been wrong about the maze. It was still evil, designed to kill. It was just a little subtler about its homicides now."
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