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		Truthfully speaking, women are dangerous, even those who aren't feminists, because there has always been a women's revolt. Only it has usually translated itself into solitary, individualist, disagreeable manifestations - the whole history of the taming of the shrew, the woman-shrew. They weren't shrews without cause.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Simone de Beauvoir
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason - as the mad animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, as the unhappy animal.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Friedrich Nietzsche
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				George Bernard Shaw
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		If we don't act now, then we will go back to what has happened before and then of course the whole thing begins again and he carries on developing these weapons and these are dangerous weapons, particularly if they fall into the hands of terrorists who we know want to use these weapons if they can get them.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Tony Blair
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jane Austen
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The most dangerous follower is the one whose defection would destroy the whole party: hence, the best follower.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Friedrich Nietzsche
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		I flew aeroplanes, parachuted, walked on my own across the Himalayas - you name it; if it was dangerous, I did it.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Scilla Elworthy
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I don't think that just because a lot of my music has a quieter aesthetic; [it] excludes me from achieving that in a live setting, from being dangerous or something.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				J. Tillman
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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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.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Evelyn Underhill
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				William Shakespeare
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				William Proxmire