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The most dangerous thing is illusion.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.
-David Lloyd George
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Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.
-Baltasar Gracian
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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.
-Heraclitus
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In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.
-Hitopadesa
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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
-Victor Hugo
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If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
-Thomas Henry Huxley
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The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both
-I Ching
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A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.
-I Ching
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Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is not safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
-Helen Keller
Let Us Have Faith, 1940
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The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.
-Jean De La Fontaine
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Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.
-F. L. Lucan
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Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.
-Niccolo Machiavelli
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The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.
-Jawaharlal Nehru
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If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.
-Reinhold Niebuhr
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The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
-Francis Quarles
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We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.
-David Sarnoff
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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.
-John Selden
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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.
-Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
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There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.
-Marquise De SeVigne
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Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.
-William Shakespeare
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Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.
-William Shakespeare
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Books about Danger
