Ernest Renan (Joseph Ernest Renan) Quotes
Muslims are the first victims of Islam. Many times I have observed in my travels in the Orient that fanaticism comes from a small number of dangerous men who maintain the others in the practice of religion by terror. To liberate the Muslim from his religion is the best service one can render him.
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The difference between being a victim and a survivor is often a low level of situational awareness. You can't be a super-spy, watchful and paranoid every day. But I am more watchful than the average American.
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It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye.
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I'd heard it was dangerous to walk around Miami.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
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Wherever I go I make others feel good, and by doing this, I create life. I am a sting, and a dangerous instrument!
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I tend to play the dangerous characters, the boyfriend, that sort of thing.
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Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
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The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many.
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If there was another real one, it could be dangerous. People could be hurt. We have to act just like we would if this were real.
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I hope that I will be the last victim in China's long record of treating words as crimes.
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Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.
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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.
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Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.
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He was a hero to his valet, who bullied him, and a terror to most of his relations, whom he bullied in turn. Only England could have produced him, and he always said that the country was going to the dogs. His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices.
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Where utopianism is advanced through gradualism rather than revolution, albeit steady and persistent as in democratic societies, it can deceive and disarm an unsuspecting population, which is largely content and passive. It is sold as reforming and improving the existing society's imperfections and weaknesses without imperiling its basic nature. Under these conditions, it is mostly ignored, dismissed, or tolerated by much of the citizenry and celebrated by some. Transformation is deemed innocuous, well-intentioned, and perhaps constructive but not a dangerous trespass on fundamental liberties.
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Right now, we do not act as a true society. We act as a world under terror, just scrambling to survive.
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I have a pleasant voice, but I have no great range. I will say that I know how to make a song come alive and I guess I do have a sincerity that comes across. But I do alot of things better than sing.
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I like romantic comedy as a genre, but I think it can get stuck in its ways.
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I'm not thinking about me that much anymore. Every time I look, I'm looking for my daughter, you know? If I'm in a store, I'm looking at baby clothes. It's so much cuter to find things for her than to find things for me.
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Muslims are the first victims of Islam. Many times I have observed in my travels in the Orient that fanaticism comes from a small number of dangerous men who maintain the others in the practice of religion by terror. To liberate the Muslim from his religion is the best service one can render him.
