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Al Gore Politician
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"When we respond to threats immediately and take action right away, it's usually the threats that we're hard-wired to respond to, the kinds of things that our ancestors survived."

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Simon Sinek Author, Motivational Speaker
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"TiVo and other digital recording devices have confounded advertisers. The ad industry sees the technology as a threat to their product."

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Robert M. Gates Politician
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"My last visit to China as secretary, January of 2011, I told President Hu Jintao, just like this, "President of the United States wanted me to tell you that we now consider North Korea a direct threat to the United States." And it had no effect whatsoever."

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Jerry Brown Politician
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"Okay, so what we really have to recognize and own as Americans is that our way of being is itself perhaps the greatest threat to the continuation of civilization."

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Maya Angelou Poet, Memoirist
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"To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision."

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