- Ghraib
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dangerous Quotes
On the risks people choose to name out loud.
This page collects quotes that call out different kinds of danger - deferring too readily to experts, the real-world push to price carbon pollution as climate policy, and the everyday risks of oversharing on social platforms. See also Dangerous Thing.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
It has become much more difficult to smuggle dangerous substances across our borders over the past three years, and this is creating real problems for drug traffickers.
- Denies
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- Nov 07, 2020
This most dangerous enemy is the American counterpart of the British Fabian Socialist, who denies that he is a Socialist and operates behind a mask which he calls National Planning.
- Conflict
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- Nov 07, 2020
Africans are on the front lines of humanitarian efforts, distributing life-saving aid in dangerous environments. Africans comprise the vast majority of peacekeepers in civil conflict on that continent. Africans for the most part lead peace negotiations for the wars being fought in Africa.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's very clear that the Bush Administration is out of control. It contains some truly dangerous people.
- Independence
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of the things which nourish the imagination, humour is one of the most needful, and it is dangerous to limit or destroy it.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.
- Desk
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- Nov 07, 2020
A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most anyplace one lives is essentially dangerous. There are floods in the Midwest, and tornadoes. There are hurricanes along the Gulf. In New York, you get mugged.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
All life is inherently dangerous. But beyond that, Los Angeles is just a wonderful place to be.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writers transform: they throw a hand grenade into the notion of reality that people carry around in their heads. That's very dangerous, very destructive, but not to do it means you are satisfied with the status quo - and that's a kind of danger as well, because a kind of violence is already being perpetuated.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was on the verge of taking over a company myself, from my father, before I left Knoxville to become an actor. I was also a company commander in Korea, so I had some sense of how powerful authority can be. How dangerous it can be.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020