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• Danger: The possibility that something unpleasant or bad will happen. Merriam Webster
• Danger: A person or thing that is likely to cause injury, pain, harm, or loss. Merriam Webster
• Danger: Liability or exposure to harm or injury; risk; peril.  Dictionary.com
• Fear,  Caution,  Security,  Loss,  Pain,  Suffering,  Courage,  Cowardice,  Risk taking

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Life is full of danger

• For me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice. A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment. Joyce Cary
• All our mortal lives are set in danger and perplexity: one day to prosper, and the next — who knows? When all is well, then look for rocks ahead. Sophocles
• As soon as there is life, there is danger. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The world is getting to be such a dangerous place a man is lucky to get out of it alive. C. Fields

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However, in the long run, avoiding danger is no safer than outright exposure

• Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. Helen Keller
• Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. Helen Keller

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The best way to deal with danger is to face it head on

• At times you have to fight. No way around it. At some point, every one of us is confronted with danger or injustice. How we choose to combat that challenge is often life-defining. You can face difficulties head-on, or run from them, or ignore them until they consume you. But no one escapes conflict. No one. Bill O’Reilly
• It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck. Charles Caleb Colton
• To run away from danger, instead of facing it, is to deny one’s faith in man and God, even one’s own self. It is better for one to drown oneself than live to declare such bankruptcy of faith. Mahatma Gandhi
• When danger approaches, sing to it. Arabic Proverb
• Danger — if you meet it promptly and without flinching — you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never! Winston Churchill
• The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly. Jawaharlal Nehru
• Danger can only be overcome by more danger. Greek proverb
• Courage,  Boldness,  Face challenges head-on

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When facing danger, remember to breathe deeply

• From your higher perspective—activated in the prefrontal cortex in your forehead—you make executive-brain decisions about the level of danger, the appropriate action to take, and when it’s safe to relax. Fortunately, you don’t need to learn how to give this signal of safety; you simply exhale and give a sigh of relief, which instantly signals the body’s relaxation response—from the parasympathetic branch of the autonomic nervous system—to take over and release muscle tension and reduce stress hormones. Neil Fiore
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Live dangerously …

• Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously! Friedrich Nietzsche
• Live dangerously, and when I say, ‘Live dangerously,’ I mean live according to your own self, whatever the cost. Whatever is at stake, live according to your own consciousness, according to your own heart and feeling. Anthony de Mello
• Spirit seeks expression through you. The very nature of being alive is participation, expansion, change, and progress. You were put here not to cower before obstacles, limitations, or dangers but to reach beyond your comfort horizon and dare to embrace your fears as opportunities for learning.  Cash Peters
• Take all the necessary precautions. But live intensely and dangerously. Eric Maisel
• The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death. Friedrich Nietzsche
• Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. Karl Wallenda
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… and embrace the danger of adventure …

• It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door, he used to say. “You step into the Road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.” R. R. Tolkien
• May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. Edward Abbey
• The danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort. Paulo Coelho
• The good life is one hero journey after another. Over and over again, you are called to the realm of adventure. You are called to new horizons. Each time, there is the same problem: do I dare? And then, if you do dare, the dangers are there, and the help also, and the fulfilment or the fiasco. There’s always the possibility of a fiasco. But there’s also the possibility of bliss. Joseph Campbell
• Life is an adventure of passion, risk, danger, laughter, beauty, love; a burning curiosity to go with the action to see what it is all about, to go search for a pattern of meaning, to burn one’s bridges because you’re never going to go back anyway, and to live to the end. Saul D. Alinsky
• If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine, it is lethal. Paulo Coelho
• You can’t prepare for everything life’s going to throw at you. And you can’t avoid danger. It’s there. The world is a dangerous place, and if you sit around wringing your hands about it, you’ll out on all the adventure. Jeannette Walls
• Man could escape danger only by renouncing adventure, by abandoning that which has given to the human condition its unique character and genius among the rest of living things. Rene Dubois
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… for we all need a bit of danger from time to time …

• A heart full of courage and cheerfulness needs a little danger from time to time, or the world gets unbearable. Friedrich Nietzsche
• Why wilderness? Because we like the taste of freedom; because we like the smell of danger. Edward Abbey
• I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. Leo Tolstoy
• I feel the need to endanger myself every so often. Tim Daly

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… to enliven and enrich our lives

• And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes. S. Lewis
• Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn’t so, life wouldn’t be worth living. Oscar Wilde
• Danger and delight grow on one stalk. Scottish Proverb
• Nearly everything that was fun, of course, was also a little dangerous: riding roller coasters, skydiving, gambling, sex. Dean Koontz
• Life is dangerous. That’s what makes it interesting. John Twelve Hawks
• Danger is an aphrodisiac. Tobsha Learner
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The most dangerous thing you can do is to play it too safe …

• The most dangerous thing you can do is to play it too safe. Anthony Lambert
• Don’t play for safety — it’s the most dangerous thing in the world. Sir Hugh Walpole
• The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions. Alfred Adler
• The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one’s self to destiny. Napoleon Bonaparte
• The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all. Jawaharlal Nehru
• Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing. Adolph Monod
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… to never take risks

• Riskless living is dangerous. And risky. Robin Sharma
• If you risk nothing, you risk everything. Geena Davis
• The greatest risk is the risk of riskless living. Stephen Covey
• If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more. Erica Jong
• To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself. Soren Kierkegaard
• The real risk lies in riskless living. Robin Sharma
• The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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More arguments in favour of danger

• Danger, the spur of all great minds. George Chapman
• We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger. Pierre Corneille
• I needed some real danger and some mortal risk to run, to tranquilize me. Alexander Dumas
• No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger. Heraclitus
• Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers. Victor Hugo

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When danger comes, have the courage to take fearless action when it is called for …

• Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow. Dorothy Thompson
• I believe there is no other difference between those who are called courageous and those who are branded craven than that the second are fearful before the danger and the first after it. No one can be much frightened, certainly, during a period of great and immanent peril — the mind is too much concentrated on the thing itself, and on the actions necessary to meet or avoid it. The coward is a coward, then, because he has brought his fear with him; persons we think cowardly will sometimes amaze us by their bravery, if they have had no forewarning of their danger. Gene Wolfe
• The rash person is in some way blind to danger. The coward is blinded by it. The courageous person is intelligent enough to recognize risk, but committed enough to act despite of it, when action is appropriate. Tom Morris
• A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. Jean Paul
• In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid. Hitopadesa
• Action,  Courage

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… and have the courage and wisdom to flee if that’s the best option

• It sometimes requires courage to fly from danger. Maria Edgeworth
• Wisdom consists in being able to distinguish among dangers and make a choice of the least harmful. Niccolo Machiavelli
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Exposure to danger builds courage

• If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else. Reinhold Niebuhr
• Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them. Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
• One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger. François de La Rochefoucauld
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Pray for deliverance from fear, not for deliverance from danger

• The wise man in the storm prays God, not from safety from danger but from deliverance from fear. It is the storm within which endangers him not the storm without. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death. David Sarnoff
• Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it. Rabindranath Tagore
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Danger is best overcome by those who dare to jump in and press on in spite of it

• Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare. Queen’s Mother Elizabeth
• He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea. Thomas Fuller
• To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble as well as we can. Sydney Smith
• The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps. David Lloyd George
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The purpose of fear is to tell you when danger is around …

• Fear is a part of life. It’s a warning mechanism. That’s all. It tells you when there’s danger around. Its job is to help you survive. Not cripple you into being unable to do it. Jim Butcher
• The greater the fear the nearer the danger. Danish Proverb
• Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening. Gertrude Stei

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… but often we focus on anticipated dangers rather than dangers at hand

• The psychological condition of fear is divorced from any concrete and true immediate danger. It comes in many forms: unease, worry, anxiety, nervousness, tension, dread, phobia, and so on. This kind of psychological fear is always of something that might happen, not of something that is happening now. Eckhart Tolle
• A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand. Seneca
• The task of worrying is to come up with positive solutions for life’s perils by anticipating dangers before they arise. If we are preoccupied by worries, we have that must less attention to expend on figuring out the answers. Our worries become self- fulfilling prophecies, propelling us toward the very disaster they predict. Daniel Goleman
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… and often our fears exaggerate the danger that actually exists

• Our instinctive emotions are those that we have inherited from a much more dangerous world, and contain, therefore, a larger portion of fear than they should. Bertrand Russell
• If you suffer from chronic anxiety and worries, chances are you look at the world in ways that make it seem more dangerous than it really is. Robert Segal
• The fear we throw about danger is always as disproportionate as a paternal shirt on an infant. Austin O’Malley

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Imagined dangers are always the worst and can create great stress

• Our courage is greater to dare a visible than an imagined danger. A visible danger rouses our energies to meet or avert it; a fancied peril appals from its presenting nothing to be resisted. Thus, a panic is, usually, a sudden going over to the enemy of our imagination. All is then lost, for we have not only to fight against that enemy, but our imagination as well. Christian Nestell Bovee
• Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself. Daniel Defoe
• The stress response exists to protect you. It’s meant to get you out of harm’s way when your life is in danger. But these days, the average person has 50 stress responses per day. It’s no wonder chronic illnesses are at epidemic levels. Lissa Rankin
• Imagination,  Stress

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Often, our fear is more dangerous than the danger itself …

• There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear. Jawaharlal Nehru
• The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger. L. Lucan
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… for fear can actually attracts danger

• In this world, there is always danger for those who are afraid of it. George Bernard Shaw
• Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring. Richard Baxter

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Of course, many argue that a bit of fear is a healthy thing

• Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger. Francis Quarles
• He who fears dangers will not perish by them. Leonardo da Vinci

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Guard against danger and you may help prevent it

• He is most free from danger, who, even when safe, is on his guard. Publilius Syrus
• They that are on their guard and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked than the supine, secure and negligent. Benjamin Franklin
• A danger foreseen is half avoided. Thomas Fuller
• Things never go wrong at the moment you expect them to. When you’re completely relaxed, oblivious to any potential dangers, that’s when bad things happen. C.K. Kelly Martin
• He who keeps danger in mind will rest safely in his seat. Confucius
• If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. Sophocles

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Ideas can be dangerous …

• An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. Oscar Wilde
• Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled “This could change your life. Helen Exley
• The danger is that in reaction to abuses and distortions of an idea, we’ll reject it completely. And in the process, miss out on the good of it, the worth of it, the truth of it. Rob Bell
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… but more dangerous is having one fixed idea or point of view…

• Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have. Emile Chartier
• If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea. Richard Hofstadter
• A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding. Marshall McLuhan
• Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview – nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty. Stephen Jay Gould
• Nothing is so dangerous to the progress of the human mind than to assume that our views of science are ultimate, that there are no mysteries in nature, that our triumphs are complete and that there are no new worlds to conquer. Humphry Davy
• A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world. John le Carré

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.. especially if your fixed idea has closed into a belief …

• The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief. And by dangerous I don’t mean thought-provoking. I mean: might get people killed. Sarah Vowell
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… especially if you believe without doubt that you are right …

• There is a set of imperious and arrogant people, with whom it is dangerous to engage, that always arrogate reason and sense to themselves, and allow no one else to be in the right. Wellins Calcott
• There’s never been a true war that wasn’t fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous. Neil Gaiman
• The thing is, it’s very dangerous to have a fixed idea. A person with a fixed idea will always find some way of convincing himself in the end that he is right. Atle Selberg

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… especially if it is not based on reason

• A reasonable opinion must ever be in danger where Reason is not judge. William Penn
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Ignorance is dangerous …

• The most dangerous people are the ignorant. Henry Ward Beecher
• A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad. Bob Edwards
• Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. Martin Luther King Jr.
• Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend. Jean De La Fontaine
• If you are ignorant enough, you can walk like a cat on the slippery roof-ridge of danger. Austin O’Malley
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… but false knowledge is even more so

• Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. George Bernard Shaw

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Illusion is dangerous

• In the beginning, there was faith – which is childish; trust – which is vain; and illusion – which is dangerous. Elie Wiesel
• The most dangerous thing is illusion. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A little learning is a dangerous thing

• A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing. Samuel Butler
• A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad. Bob Edwards
• A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring. Alexander Pope
• A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people. Frederick Douglass
• If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? Thomas Henry Huxley
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Passion can be dangerous in excess

• Human passion is a heavy working charge of electricity, which runs safely and profitably through the cable reason; but, if the cable is broken, the current becomes dangerous. Austin O’Malley
• Indeed, the passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways, and dangerous only in one–through their excess. Christian Nestell Bovee
• The passions possess a certain injustice and self-interest which makes it dangerous to follow them, and in reality, we should distrust them even when they appear most trustworthy. François de la Rochefoucauld
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Feelings can be dangerous …

• Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren’t susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place. Brian Eno
• People who are driven by feelings are dangerous. They are undisciplined, inconsistent, and unreliable. Matthew Kelly
• The truth is that a feeling is never unacceptable or dangerous, it’s only the way you express it that can potentially be so.  Anthony Lambert
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… especially when rationalised

• Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions. David Borenstein
• Rationality,  Reason

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Anger can be dangerous

• All this is wrong-headed, based on the false assumption that our feelings are dangerous or unacceptable. It’s how we express feelings, not the feelings themselves, that can be dangerous or unacceptable.  We have some ability, and we can develop more, to control how we express our feelings.  Simply paying mindful attention to ourselves helps a great deal. Richard O’Connor
• Anger is one letter short of danger. Eleanor Roosevelt
• Anger is a violent emotion, vindictive, and as dangerous to he who is driven by it as to anyone on whom it is turned. Dean Koontz
• Anger based on calculated reason is more dangerous than anger based on blind hate. Richelle Mead
• And there is nothing more dangerous in this world, in any world, than someone calm, clear and angry. Audrey Hart
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Apathy can be dangerous

• By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy – indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self-satisfaction. William Osler
• The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy. Montesquieu
• The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it. Albert Einstein
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Hatred is always dangerous

• Hatred is like a long, dark shadow. Not even the person it falls upon knows where it comes from, in most cases. It is like a two-edged sword. When you cut the other person, you cut yourself. The more violently you hack at the other person, the more violently you hack at yourself. It can often be fatal. But it is not easy to dispose of. Please be careful, Mr.Okada. It is very dangerous. Once it has taken root in your heart, hatred is the most difficult think in the world to shake off. Haruki Murakami
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Self-pity is dangerous

• Once you begin to pity yourself you are likely always to have cause to pity yourself. That is the peculiar danger of self-pity. Like a vampire that sucks the life energy out of the man who allows it to take possession of him. H. Addington Bruce
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Prejudice is dangerous

• The most dangerous of our prejudices reign in ourselves against ourselves. To dissolve them is a creative act. Hugo von Hofsmannsthal
• 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. Hans J. Eysenck
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Thinking you are fixed for life is dangerous

• There is a subtle danger in a man thinking that he is “fixed” for life. It indicates that the next jolt of the wheel of progress is going to fling him off. Henry Ford

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Too much doubt can be dangerous …

• Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous. G.C. Lichtenberg
• Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth. Ambrose Bierce
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… especially if it causes the danger of indecision

• The problem, simply put, is that we cannot choose everything simultaneously. So we live in danger of becoming paralyzed by indecision, terrified that every choice might be the wrong choice. Elizabeth Gilbert
• Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides. Margaret Thatcher
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Not thinking before you act or speak is dangerous

• The man of thought who will not act is ineffective; the man of action who will not think is dangerous. Richard M. Nixon
• There is danger when a man throws his tongue into high gear before he gets his brain a-going. C. C. Phelps

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Excessive isolation and solitude is dangerous

• Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms. Guy de Maupassant
• The pain of closing ourselves off to people and possibilities is far more dangerous than the potential risks of opening up. We’re just not meant to be isolated. We need to really connect with each other. Lori Deschene
• An ideology of extreme personal freedom can be dangerous because it encourages people to leave homes, jobs, cities, and marriages in search of personal and professional fulfillment, thereby breaking the relationships that were probably their best hope for such fulfillment. Jonathan Haidt
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Excessive expectation and false hope is dangerous

• False hopes are more dangerous than fears. R.R. Tolkien
• Expectations are dangerous when they are both too high and unformed. Lionel Shriver
• Do not stand in a place of danger trusting in miracles. Arabian Proverb
• Expectation,  Hope

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Success can be more dangerous than failure

• Failure is hard, but success is far more dangerous. If you’re successful at the wrong thing, the mix of praise and money and opportunity can lock you in forever. Po Bronson
• Success,  Failure

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Sincerity can be dangerous – and so can the lack of it

• It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. George Bernard Shaw
• Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous. Froude
• A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. Oscar Wilde

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Advice can be dangerous

• Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill. R.R. Tolkien
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Not embracing our vulnerabilities and shadows can be dangerous

• Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy—the experiences that make us the most vulnerable. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light. Brené Brown
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Not aiming high enough is dangerous

• The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. Michelangelo
• I’ve always believed the greater danger is not aiming too high, but too low, settling for a bogey rather than shooting for an eagle. Peter Scott

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Stupidity is dangerous

• A stupid man–the most dangerous animal of all. Ariana Franklin
• Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. Martin Luther King Jr.
• Stupidity makes you dangerous–to yourself and everyone around you. Jennifer Lee Carrell
• There’s nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot. Scott Adams
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Gossip is dangerous, especially the gossiper

• Gossip is a very dangerous tool. We should be more wary of the gossiper, and not the gossip they’re trying to relay to you. John Lydon
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Deceivers are dangerous

• Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations. George Crabbe

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Truth can be dangerous, especially if distorted or ahead of its time

• The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego. Northrop Frye
• The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
• A truth spoken before its time is dangerous. Greek proverb
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Extremism and fanatacism are always dangerous …

• What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents. Robert Kennedy
• There is such a delusion as evinces itself in cool vehemence; and it is the most dangerous of all expressions of fanaticism. William Benton Clulow
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… especially if fed by religion

• The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world. Georgia Harkness
• There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty. Bart D. Ehrman
• The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality. George Bernard Shaw
• I don’t think the 9/11 attacks taught us anything we didn’t already know about religion. It has long been obvious – even to the deeply religious – that religious fanaticism is an extremely dangerous deranger of otherwise sane and goodhearted people. Daniel Dennett
• The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world. Georgia Harkness
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Lack of morals is dangerous …

• Education which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society. The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals. Martin Luther King Jr.
• Dangerous consequences will follow when politicians and rulers forget moral principles. Whether we believe in God or karma, ethics is the foundation of every religion. The Dalai Lama
• Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism. Michel Foucault

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… but so too is conscience not hitched to common sense

• Conscience that isn’t hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing. Margaret Deland
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Being in love can be dangerous

• Being in love is dangerous because you talk yourself into thinking you’ve never had it so good. David Salle
• Love is a dangerous angel. Francesca Lia Block
• Love is no game. People cut their ears off over this stuff. People jump off the Eiffel Tower and sell all their possessions and move to Alaska to live with the grizzly bears, and then they get eaten and nobody hears them when they scream for help. That’s right. Falling in love is pretty much the same thing as being eaten alive by a grizzly bear. Jess Rothenberg
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Money and wealth can be dangerous

• Money without brains is always dangerous. Napoleon Hill
• There’s nothing wrong with possessions; it’s just that they have value to us only when we use them, engage them, and enjoy them. They’re nouns that mean something only in conjunction with verbs. That’s why wealth is so dangerous: if you’re not careful you can easily end up with a garage full of nouns. Rob Bell
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Investing can be dangerous

• Speculation is most dangerous when it looks easiest. Warren Buffett
• The four most dangerous words in investing are: ‘This time it’s different.’ Sir John Templeton
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Harming the planet is extremely dangerous

• Dangerous climate change… It’s important not to be alarmist but it is very important to be alarmed. David Miliband
• For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death. Rachel Carson
• Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. Alan Watts
• Our house is burning down and we are blind to it. The earth and humankind are in danger and we are all responsible. It is time to open our eyes. Jacques Chirac
• We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet. Stephen Hawking
• Alas, our technology has marched ahead of our spiritual and social evolution, making us, frankly, a dangerous people. Steven M. Greer
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Here are some more dangerous things

• It is foolish to try to live on past experience. It is very dangerous, if not a fatal habit, to judge ourselves to be safe because of something that we felt or did twenty years ago. Charles Haddon Spurgeon
• Losing our ignorance can be dangerous because our ignorance is a shield. Dan Simmons
• Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor. Eric Sevareid
• No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. James Baldwin
• One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence. Lewis Mumford
• Organized common (or uncommon) sense is an enormously powerful tool. There are huge dangers with computers. People calculate too much and think too little. Charlie Munger
• Study without reflection is a waste of time; reflection without study is dangerous. Confucius
• That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of our time. John Stuart Mill
• It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one’s own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger. Bhagavad Gita

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Our freedom is always in danger if we don’t watch out for it

• It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal. It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.  Abraham Joshua Heschel
• The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. Louis D. Brandeis
• I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery. Thomas Jefferson
• Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society. Niccolo Machiavelli
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Danger can put even the hardest atheist on his knees, if only temporarily

• There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who when danger is pressing in will not acknowledge the divine power. Plato
• When the danger is past, God is cheated. Italian Proverb
• Danger past, God forgotten. Proverb
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In any crisis, be aware of the danger but also recognise the opportunity

• The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word ‘crisis.’ One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger – but recognize the opportunity. John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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• A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle. Ian Fleming
• A little learning is a dangerous thing but a lot of ignorance is just as bad. Bob Edwards
• A little sincerity is a dangerous thing and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. Oscar Wilde
• A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull. Louis Auchincloss
• DANGER! To touch these wires will result in instant death. Anyone found doing so will be severely prosecuted. Sign
• Desk: A dangerous place from which to view the world.
• Do not needlessly endanger your lives until I give you the signal. Dwight D. ‘Ike’ Eisenhower
• England is the only country in the world where the food is more dangerous than the sex. Jackie Mason
• Few things can be less tempting or dangerous than a Greek woman of the age of thirty. John Carne
• For the first time in history sex is more dangerous than the cigarette afterward. Jay Leno
• I dislike censorship; like an appendix it is useless when inert and dangerous when active. Maurice Edelman
• I laugh in the face of danger. Then I hide until it goes away. Joss Whedon
• I’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let’s start with typewriters. Frank Lloyd Wright
• I’m the kind of guy who puts other people first. Particularly if there’s danger up ahead. Jarod Kintz
• If I were organised, I’d be dangerous.
• If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy, then yes, Mr. Brave man, I guess I’m a coward. Jack Handy
• It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. George Bernard Shaw
• A. is very dangerous; I carry a gun in my car that way in case the police stop me I can fend them off until the press gets there. Jeff Joseph
• Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life. G. Wodehouse
• Men will cook if danger is involved. Rita Rudner
• Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion. Thornton Wilder
• Nothing is as dangerous as an unemployed lawyer. David Gerrold
• Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when a man has only one idea. Alain
• October: This is one of the particularly dangerous months to invest in stocks. Other dangerous months are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February. Mark Twain
• Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity. George Bernard Shaw
• The most dangerous food is wedding cake. American Proverb
• The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps. Benjamin Disraeli
• The most dangerous thing about American food? The portions.   Jay Leno
• The only thing more dangerous than an amateur economist is a professional economist. Berta’s Fundamental Law of Economic Rents
• The trouble with real life is that there’s no danger music.
• The world is a dangerous place; only yesterday I went into [a store] and punched someone in the face. Jeremy Limb
• The world is getting to be such a dangerous place a man is lucky to get out of it alive. C. Fields
• There is danger when a man throws his tongue into high gear before he gets his brain a-going. C. C. Phelps
• There is no danger of developing eyestrain from looking on the bright side of things.
• There’s nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot. Scott Adams
• When I raced a car last it was at a time when sex was safe and racing was dangerous. Now it’s the other way round. Hans Stuck
• When in doubt or danger, run in circles, scream and shout. Dr. Laurence J. Peter
• When the authorities warn you of the dangers of having sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities. Matt Groening
• Your mind is a dangerous neighborhood and you shouldn’t go in there alone at night. Christiane Northrup

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