Albert Einstein
Physicist
"The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it."
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Peril
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Thomas A. Edison
Inventor
"The perils of overwork are slight compared with the dangers of inactivity."
Oscar Wilde
Writer
"All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril."
Charles Evans Hughes
Politician, Lawyer
"The peril of this Nation is not in any foreign foe! We, the people, are its power, its peril, and its hope."
Albert Einstein
Physicist
"I believe in standardizing automobiles. I do not believe in standardizing human beings. Standardization is a great peril which threatens American culture."
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"For I am fresh of spirit, and resolved To meet all perils very constantly."
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"Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership."
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"I will not fear, for you are ever with me and you will never leave me to face my perils alone."
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"The issue of climate change is one that we ignore at our own peril"
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"We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation."
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"All art is at once surface and symbol."
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"We stand today on the edge of a new frontier - the frontier of the 1960's - a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils - a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats."
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"Surrendering to fear and allowing ourselves to be paralyzed by peril isn't something most of us can afford to do."
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"You cannot institute, without peril of charlatanism."
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"I have overlived the generation with which mutual labors & perils begat mutual confidence and influence."
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"Perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures."
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"The young reed dies so easily. Beginnings are times of great peril."
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"Avoid,Profaneness; come not here: Nothing but holy, pure, and clear, Or that which groaneth to be so, May at his peril further go."
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