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Friday, 21 November 2008
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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.
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A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.
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Actually, the streets are quite safe today, it's the people on them who aren't.
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As soon as there is life there is danger.
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Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
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Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
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Wallenda, Karl
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Between the anvil and the hammer.
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Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
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Biggest profits mean gravest risks.
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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.
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Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
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Danger and delight grow on one stalk.
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Danger past, God forgotten.
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Danger, the spur of all great minds.
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Chapman, George
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Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring.
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Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world.
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Every man is his own chief enemy.
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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
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However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.
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Ellis, Havelock
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I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.
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Lincoln, Abraham
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I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.
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Barton, Clara
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If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
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If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.
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Niebuhr, Reinhold
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In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
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Shaw, George Bernard
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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.
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It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.
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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
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Colton, Charles Caleb
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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.
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Quarles, Francis
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Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.
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Gracian, Baltasar
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No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.
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Brown, John Mason
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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.
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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.
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La Fontaine, Jean De
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Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.
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Churchill, Winston
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One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.
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One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
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Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.
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Shakespeare, William
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Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.
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Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.
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Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.
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The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.
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Lucan, F. L.
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.
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The most dangerous thing is illusion.
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The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.
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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
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The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to liver dangerously.
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Nietzsche, Friedrich
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The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.
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There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.
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SeVigne, Marquise De
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Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
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Cervantes, Miguel De
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To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.
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Corneille, Pierre
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We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.
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Swing, Raymond G.
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We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.
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We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.
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When danger approaches, sing to it.
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When the danger is past God is cheated.
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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.
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Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!
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Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. [Julius Caesar]
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