"If one's patriotism is merely instinctive it is irrational and irresponsible, and consequently a danger to one's country."
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"No commandment surpasses the one concerning the liberation of hostages, for they are among the starving, the thirsting, the stripped, always in danger of death."
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"And action is the only remedy to indifference, the most insidious danger of all."
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"We need to be on a war footing. We need to understand that our nation is in grave danger."
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"The point is, we can decry the dangers we face or ignore them or even allow ourselves to be paralyzed by fear."
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"If we give up freedom for security, we are in danger of losing both."
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"In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger."
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"A people's wrath voiced abroad bringeth grave Danger, no less than public curse pronounced."
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"The more honor, the more danger."
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"The chief danger to philosophy is narrowness in the selection of evidence."
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"The fixed person for the fixed duties who in older societies was such a godsend, in future will be a public danger."
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"He had a mania for washing and disinfecting himself. . . . For him the only danger came from the microbes that attacked the body. He had not studied the microbe of conscience which eats into the soul."
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"I, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture."
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"She lov'd me for the dangers I had pass'd, And I lov'd her that she did pity them"
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"Suffering is dysfunctional, except as a bodily warning against danger. Psychologically and socially it's merely destructive."
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"A soldier's time is passed in distress and danger, or in idleness and corruption."
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"No estimate is more in danger of erroneous calculations than those by which a man computes the force of his own genius."
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"The dangers gather as the treasures rise."
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"I have always consistently opposed high-tension and alternating systems of electric lighting...not only on account of danger, but because of their general unreliability and unsuitability for any general system of distribution."
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"One of the dangers of the American artist is that he finds himself almost exclusively thrown in with persons more or less in the arts. He lives among them, eats among them, quarrels with them, marries them."
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