Winston Churchill
Politician, Writer, Historian
"I have had a number of threatening letters each week, some telling me the actual time and method of my death, and I don't like it."
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Lewis Thomas
Physician, Author
"Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature, there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself."
Paulo Coelho
Writer
"Publishers see free downloads as threatening the sales of the book."
Sharon Stone
Actress
"If I was just normally intelligent, I could probably get away with it - but I'm fiercely intelligent and that's threatening."
Barbara Kingsolver
Author, Biologist
"For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise."
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"The new is threatening to those who have mastered the old."
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"A good education instills in you the intuitive comprehension - it becomes unconscious and reflexive - that you just don't think certain things, things that are threatening to power interests."
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"While doing visits to hospitals, I have prayed over children with life threatening illnesses and continue to bring Jesus to every stage I walk on."
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