Quotes with dangerous

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  • W. C. Fields The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.
    W. C. Fields
    American Actor (1880 - 1946)
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  • Carl Sagan There is a lurking fear that some things are 'not meant' to be known, that some inquiries are too dangerous for human being to make.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics - none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • George Bernard Shaw There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Marie de Rabutin-Chantal marquise de  Sévigné There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.
    Marie de Rabutin-Chantal marquise de Sévigné
    French letter writer and aristocrat (1626 - 1696)
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  • George Bernard Shaw There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Agatha Christie There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation! A human being, Hastings, cannot resist the opportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away.
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Jawaharlal Nehru There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
    Jawaharlal Nehru
    Indian nationalist and statesman (1889 - 1964)
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  • Ben Schnetzer There's a lot of comedic value to fraternities, but whenever you start messing with power dynamics and you take away consequences, you can tread some dangerous waters.
    Ben Schnetzer
    American actor (1990 - )
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  • Bruce Cockburn These fragile bodies of touch and taste
    This vibrant skin, this hair like lace
    Spirits open to the thrust of grace
    Never a breath you can afford to waste, when you're
    Lovers in a dangerous time
    Lovers in a dangerous time...
    Stealing Fire (1984)
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • Robert Runcie Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another. War springs from the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substitute, one of the most dangerous being nationalism.
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • George Santayana To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Abigail Van Buren True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
    Abigail Van Buren
    American advice columnist and radio show host (1918 - 2013)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman Voluntary self-directed religion was more dangerous to the Church than any number of infidels.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz War is such a dangerous business that mistakes that come from kindness are the very worst.
    On War (1832) Ch. 1, Section 3, Paragraph 1
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Marcel Proust We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch When beggars and shoeshine boys, barbers and beauticians can tell you how to get rich it is time to remind yourself that there is no more dangerous illusion than the belief that one can get something for nothing.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Caroline Lawrence When someone talks about Western films, you probably think of those old black and white cowboy films your granddad likes. But the Western is a wonderful genre because it is usually a story of a lone hero fighting against corruption in a dangerous world.
    Caroline Lawrence
    English American author (1954 - )
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