Dangerous Quotes
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Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.
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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.
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Particularly in the final stages I always find that I'm rushed. It's dangerous when you're rushed in the editing stage, most of my early films are flawed in the cutting
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The most dangerous thing Iraq could have ever had was a nuclear weapon. The nuclear weapon Iraq was trying to build was not deliverable by bomb or ballistic missile. It was a large, bulky device that they hoped to bury and set off to let the world know they had a nuclear weapon. They never achieved that.
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You live in a dangerous place when you sacrifice integrity for security.
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Part-time information and full-time opinions can be very dangerous.
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The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow.
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I learnt that fame is an illusion and everything about it is just a joke. I'm far more dangerous now, because I don't care at all.
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Men like M. de Talleyrand are like sharp instruments with which it is dangerous to play.
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There is no practice more dangerous than that of borrowing money; for when money can be had in this way, repayment is seldom thought of in time, the interest becomes a loss, exertions to raise it by dent of industry cease, it comes easy and is spent freely, and many things are indulged in that would never be thought of if they were to be purchased by the sweat of the brow.
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This isn't about grabbing people's guns; this isn't about changing the Second Amendment. This simply says that someone who is on the terrorist watch list - a dangerous terrorist - should not be able to purchase a gun.
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I don't want it to appear that I'm standing up and saying I'm the expected one. That's a dangerous, ego-driven kind of thing.
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Ah, gratitude, that's a terrible thing, a dangerous thing.
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He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous.
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That's the joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging but it's just art - it's safe.
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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
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Loneliness is dangerous ... because if aloneness does not lead to God, it leads to the devil. It leads to the self.
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A mind ill with negative attitudes is more dangerous than a sick body, for its sickness is always contagious.
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Its extremely dangerous to compare anyone else to Shakespeare.
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To throw oneself into strange teachings is quite dangerous.
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Of all ignorance, the ignorance of the educated is the most dangerous. Not only are educated people likely to have more influence, they are the last people to suspect that they don't know what they are talking about when they go outside their narrow fields.
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Knowledge is dangerous.
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And none of these people, not one of them, had loved any of the others well enough. Failures, he thought, we're all failures... He wanted his love to be the wine and bread, and the blood and flesh. He reached for her, a dangerous stranger in a city of dangerous strangers, but she turned away from him and walked unsteadily through the crowd. How many loveless people walk among the barely loved?
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Do not entertain the notion that you ought to advance in your prayer. If you do, you will only find you have put on the brake instead of the acceleration. All real progress in spiritual things comes gently, imperceptibly, and is the work of God. Our crude efforts spoil it. Know yourself for the childish, limited and dependent soul you are. Remember that the only growth which matters happens without our knowledge and that trying to stretch ourselves is both dangerous and silly. Think of the Infinite Goodness, never of your own state.
