"To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing."
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"It is not that I don't recognize the danger in ski racing, but that I don't fear the consequences."
"He who shares the danger ought to share the prize."
"Where cultural representations do not reach out beyond themselves, there is the danger that they will function as the surrogates for activism, that they will constitute both the beginning and the end of political practice."
"Life is strewn with so many dangers, and can be the source of so many misfortunes, that death is not the greatest of them."
"There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships."
"There's always the danger that the extreme feminist will end up quite unfulfilled as a girl."
"No danger can perturb my spirit's calm."
"Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head."
"When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable."
"Jewelry, I'm telling you. It's a thing. And love. And maybe danger."
"Paul Krugman is a danger to society!"
"The people will always attempt to find the positive aspects of all circumstances, which, in themselves, are not susceptible to danger."
"People who grow bored in their own company seem to me in danger."
"We are not called to be safe, we are simply promised that when we are in danger, God is right there with us. And there is no better place to be than in His hands."
"He who fears dangers will not perish by them."
"Poverty anywhere is a danger to prosperity everywhere"
"I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror."
"Perhaps to lose a sense of where you are implies the danger of losing a sense of who you are."
"The most dangerous thing is illusion."