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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Maybe that's the way to tell the dangerous men from the good ones. A dreamer of the day is dangerous when he believes that others are less: less than their own best selves and certainly less than he is. They exist to follow and flatter him, and to serve his purposes. A true prophet, I suppose, is like a good parent. A true prophet sees others, not himself. He helps them define their own half-formed dreams, and puts himself at their service. He is not diminished as they become more. He offers courage in one hand and generosity in the other.
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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
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Ah, gratitude, that's a terrible thing, a dangerous thing.
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I think Queen tribute bands are great. However, we have to keep them at arm's length, otherwise it could be too dangerous.
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Hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it's dangerous, that it's painful and risky, that it's making a dare in the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?
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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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Rock'n'roll is not red carpets and MySpace friends, rock'n'roll is dangerous and should piss people off.
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Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world changes, whether I want it to or not.
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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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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 like directors who come on the set and create something that's a little dangerous, difficult or unusual.
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I have always suspected that too much knowledge is a dangerous thing. It is a boon to people who don't have deep feelings; their pleasure comes from what they know. . . . But this only emphasizes the difference between the artist and the scholar.
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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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I am sufficiently wary of dangerous situations, but I'm not scared of having a go.
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The right to private property ownership is one of our core freedoms, ... Historically, eminent domain has been used mainly for well served public purposes such as highways or schools, but this decision sets a dangerous precedent for uprooting families simply to accommodate wealthy developers.
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It has been the bankers' destiny ... to find themselves on the dangerous edge of the world, pointing up the contradictions and cross-purposes. They are not often loved for it.
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One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.
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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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Scientists, especially when they leave the particular field in which they are specialized, are just as ordinary, pig-headed, and unreasonable as everybody else, and their unusually high intelligence only makes their prejudices all the more dangerous.
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Even from a very early age, I knew I didn't want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous.
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The petition of an empty hand is dangerous.
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I'm alive and I'm going to keep standing up for what I believe in. Once you get to that point, boy you are dangerous.
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Mixed Martial Arts is wonderful to watch, it is very practical but dangerous at the same time. You have to be very careful when doing something like that.
