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You're not going to tell me they built fifty-foot-high killer golems, are you?""Only a man would thi...

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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that...

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Danger confronted properly is not something a man must fear.

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Tom ClancyThe Hunt for Red October

The human body is robust. It can gather strength when it's in mortal danger.

The star we're looking for isn't so very friendly," said Moomintroll. "Quite the contrary, in fact."...

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I tell myself, as sternly as possible, that is how things work here. We do dangerous things and peop...

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There is safety in the very heart of danger.

Any order is a balancing act of extreme precariousness.

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Walter BenjaminIlluminations: Essays and Reflections

The two most dangerous things in the world are rich people and crazy people.

Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate sco...

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In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great har...

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William Kingdon CliffordThe Ethics of Belief and Other Essays

I am trying like Klee, to create something that will have a life of its own, that can put me in real...

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Things joined by profit, when pressed by misfortune and danger, will cast each other aside.

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ZhuangziThe Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

James gave the huffle of a snail in danger. And nobody heard him at all.

When a man's neck's in danger, he doesn't stop to think too much about sentiment.

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Agatha ChristieAnd Then There Were None

When a man's neck's in danger, he doesn't stop to think too much aboutsentiment.

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Agatha ChristieAnd Then There Were None

Yes, it was dangerous, but we are not put into this world, Mr. Burton, to avoid danger when an impor...

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There are, of course, the people who revolve around themselves--but I agree with you, she's not one ...

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The more people you have to ask for permission, the more dangerous a project gets.

Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of...

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The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

Without realizing that the past is constantly determining their present actions, they avoid learning...

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Alice Miller (psychologist)The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self

Let's end by pointing out all the positive ways you can scare yourself and feel alive. You can tell ...

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Each child’s story is worthy of telling. There shouldn’t be a sliding scale of death. The weight of ...

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Anderson CooperDispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War

My Lasher is powerful beyond yourdreams of a daimon, and he has learnt much.’‘Learned,’ I repeated i...

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Anne RiceThe Witching Hour

The danger of memory is that it can turn anyone into a prophet.

For there are two reasons why human beings face danger calmly: they may have no experience of it, or...

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AristotleThe Rhetoric & The Poetics of Aristotle

He had sometimes wondered if the real reason why men sought danger was that only thus could they fin...

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It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. The fact...

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Our personal fears and emotions are at times stronger than public danger. By keeping them secret, we...

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Azar NafisiThings I've Been Silent About: Memories

sometimes falling raincarries memories of betrayalthere in the woodswhere she was not meant to betoo...

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Bell hooksAppalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place

Worse still, it isn’t actually necessary to look to space for petrifying danger. As we are about to ...

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Bill BrysonA Short History of Nearly Everything

If evil were not made to appear attractive, there would be no such thing as temptation.It is in the ...

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If evil were not made to appear attractive, there would be no such thing as temptation.It is in the ...

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If evil were not made to appear attractive, there would be no such thing as temptation.It is in the ...

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If evil were not made to appear attractive, there would be no such thing as temptation.It is in the ...

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If evil were not made to appear attractive, there would be no such thing as temptation.It is in the ...

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If evil were not made to appear attractive, there would be no such thing as temptation.It is in the ...

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If evil were not made to appear attractive, there would be no such thing as temptation.It is in the ...

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If evil were not made to appear attractive, there would be no such thing as temptation.It is in the ...

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Personally, I say, "Out of the frying pan and into the deadly pit filled with sharks who are wieldin...

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Brandon SandersonAlcatraz Versus the Scrivener's Bones

A person needed to experience real danger or they would never find joy in excelling. There had to be...

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And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love s...

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C. S. LewisOut of the Silent Planet

He had no notion of meeting danger half-way. When it came upon him, he confronted it, but it must co...

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Charles DickensGreat Expectations

I'd never really believed in terrorists before--I mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terro...

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I took the sleeper out of Glasgow, and as the smelly old train bumped out of Central Station and acr...

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Craig FergusonAmerican on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

He realized that, despite the dangers and alarms of the day, waiting was perhaps the worst thing of ...

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Dan AbnettDoctor Who: The Silent Stars Go By

In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.

Could be. I’m a pretty dangerous dude when I’m cornered.”“Yeah,” said the voice from under the table...

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Douglas AdamsThe Restaurant at the End of the Universe

My whole life has been spent walking by the side of a bottomless chasm, jumping from stone to stone....

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To the question: Wilderness, who needs it? Doc would say: Because we like the taste of freedom, comr...

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We marched. Gates opened and closed. We continued to march between the barbed wire. At every step, w...

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I felt like I was some kind of primitive spring-loaded machine, placed under far more tension than i...

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The fact that no limits exist to the destructiveness of this weapon [the 'Super', i.e. the hydrogen ...

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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sad...

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It must be most dangerous then to be a man. It is indeed, madame, and but few survive it

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Ernest HemingwayDeath in the Afternoon

One of the most remarkable of man's characteristics is his capacity for becoming used to conditions ...

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The knife is more dangerous than the hand and the knife can be in either hand.

I only fear danger where I want to fear it.

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Franz KafkaThe Metamorphosis

One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.

It is not the sanctuary that is in danger; it is civilization. It is not infallibility that may go d...

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There is always danger for those who are afraid.

Still, beauty can mask deadly danger.

Perhaps you should speak more softly to me, then. Monsters are dangerous beasts, and just now kings ...

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...do not spare any reasonable expense to come at early and true information; always recollecting, a...

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I must be in love with this woman, Sumire realized with a start. Nomistake about it. Ice is cold; ro...

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But though, to landsmen in general, the native inhabitants of the seas have ever regarded with emoti...

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... an utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.

When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.

Danger, like a third man, was standing in the room.

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Ian FlemingFrom Russia With Love

In the centre of Bond was a hurricane-room, the kind of citadel found in old-fashioned houses in the...

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...Goldfinger could not have known that high tension was Bond's natural way of life and that pressur...

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Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why so great a portion of mankind, after nature has long sinc...

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Immanuel KantAn Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?

Courtiers don't take wagers against the king's skill. There is a deadly danger of winning

There was never any danger of Business 2.0 ever going under.

In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the ...

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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at h...

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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; th...

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When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and ...

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In human affairs of danger and delicacy successful conclusion is sharply limited by hurry.

Her beauty was a weapon. A loaded gun, with the barrel pointed at her own head.

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Khaled HosseiniAnd the Mountains Echoed

Every danger loses some of its terror once its causes are understood.

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Konrad LorenzCivilized Man's Eight Deadly Sins

True courage is in facing damger when you are afraid.

Cheap little rhymesA cheap little tuneAre sometimes as dangerousAs a sliver of the moon.

If we are to assume that North Korea becomes a nuclear-power state, of course the danger of having a...

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Danger for danger's sake is senseless.

I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance ...

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At the advent of danger there are always two voices that speak with equal force in the human heart: ...

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Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.

What do you call yourself?" the Fawn said at last. Such a soft sweet voice it had!"I wish I knew!" t...

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Lewis CarrollAlice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmaresif there seemed any danger of their coming tru...

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Dangers were no more than odd imaginings, like ghost stories that children made up to frighten one a...

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It was harder for the ones who were waiting, Annemarie knew. Less danger, perhaps, but more fear.

As long as we know what it's about, then we can have the courage to go wherever we are asked to go, ...

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Madeleine L'EngleWalking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

The walls of the arch are covered with blood-red jellies that wink and glisten at me by the light of...

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