Jim Harrison
Novelist, Poet
"The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense."
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Danger
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Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"Our lives, our liberty, and our property are never in greater danger than when Congress is in session."
Elizabeth I
Queen
"Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states."
Julius Caesar
Military General, Statesman
"In extreme danger fear feels no pity. [Lat., In summo periculo timor miericordiam non recipit.]"
Niccolo Machiavelli
Political Philosopher, Historian
"Never was anything great achieved without danger."
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"A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies."
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"The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded."
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"Always presume that the enemy has dangerous designs and always be forehanded with the remedy. But do not let these calculations make your timid."
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"The perils of overwork are slight compared with the dangers of inactivity."
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"isn't it funny how danger makes people passionate?"
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"The way to secure peace is to be prepared for war. They that are on their guard, and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked, than the supine, secure, and negligent."
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"Look around—there's only one thing of danger for you here—poetry."
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"Formula One was a very dangerous sport. It still is dangerous. But the danger factor is also the exciting part."
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"Artaud sought to remove aesthetic distance, bringing the audience into direct contact with the dangers of life. By turning theatre into a place where the spectator is exposed rather than protected, Artaud was committing an act of cruelty upon them."
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"There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot."
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"On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in her strength, not to escape herself but to find herself, not to abase herself but to assert herself--on that day love will become for her, as for man, a source of life and not of mortal danger."
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"One of the greatest dangers is secular religion - state worship."
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"There is nothing more dangerous than a humiliated man."
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"We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet."
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"Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are in that danger."
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"Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling."
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"I think one should do what seems right. And if what seems right involves danger...well, one must risk the danger."
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"The danger with hatred is, once you start in on it, you get a hundred times more than you bargained for. Once you start, you can't stop."
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"True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid."
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"There is a joy in danger."
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