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Letter "D" » danger
«He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.»
«Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.»
«I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.»
«In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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afraid, danger, in this, In this World, out of danger
«It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: someone has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them.»
«Never was anything great achieved without danger»
«How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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«If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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«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.»
«One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
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