Quotes with dangerous

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  • Alexandre Dumas père All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.
    Alexandre Dumas père
    French writer (1802 - 1870)
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  • Bill Bryson America is an outstandingly dangerous place. Consider this: every year in New Hampshire a dozen or more people are killed crashing their cars into moose. Now correct me if I am wrong, but this is not something that is likely to happen to you on the way home from Sainsbury's.
    Im a Stranger Here Myself (US) / Notes From a Big Country (UK) (1998)
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • William S. Burroughs America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Don Marquis An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • Brian De Palma And I always had this idea for making a movie about a femme fatale, because I like these characters. They're a lot of fun, they're sexy, they're manipulative, they're dangerous.
    Brian De Palma
    American film director and screenwriter (1940 - )
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  • Marquis de Sade Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Anthony Burgess Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.
    Anthony Burgess
    British writer, criticus (1917 - 1993)
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  • Julie Burchill As with most liberal sexual ideas, what makes the world a better place for men invariably makes it a duller and more dangerous place for women.
    Julie Burchill
    British journalist, writer
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  • Barry Manilow Atrial fibrillation has been the low man on the totem pole and so we're just trying to get more visibility about this particular disease and how dangerous this could be.
    Barry Manilow
    American singer-songwriter, producer and actor (1943 - )
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  • P. J. O'Rourke Automobiles are free of egotism, passion, prejudice and stupid ideas about where to have dinner. They are, literally, selfless. A world designed for automobiles instead of people would have wider streets, larger dining rooms, fewer stairs to climb and no smelly, dangerous subway stations.
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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  • Thomas Jefferson Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, or vanity; for if thou err in the first, thou shalt be accounted profane; if in the second, dangerous; if in the third, indiscreet and foolish.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • Helen Rowland Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Huey Newton Black men and women who refuse to live under oppression are dangerous to white society because they become symbols of hope to their brothers and sisters, inspiring them to follow their example.
    Revolutionary Suicide (2009)
    Huey Newton
    African-American political activist (1942 - 1989)
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  • John Maynard Keynes But, soon or late, it is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
    The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936) ch. 24
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • John Bradshaw Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.
    John Bradshaw
    American educator, counselor, motivational speaker, and author (1933 - 2016)
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  • Bob Barr Clearly, the court today has ignored the constitutional right and responsibility of Congress to pass laws protecting citizens from dangerous and addictive narcotics...
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Adam Grant Conformity is dangerous.
    Adam Grant
    American author and professor (1981 - )
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  • Bono Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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