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Letter "P" » peril
«Call a thing immoral or ugly, soul-destroying or a degradation of man, a peril to the peace of the world or to the well-being of future generations; as long as you have not shown it to be ''uneconomic'' you have not really questioned its right to exist, grow, and prosper.»
Author: E. F. Schumacher
(Economist, Founder)
| Keywords:
call into question, degradation, destroying, generations, immoral, Peace of, peril, prosper, questioned, shown, soul-destroying, The WELL, uneconomic, well-being
«Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril»
Author: William Lloyd Garrison
(Abolitionist, Activist, Journalist)
| About:
Liberty
| Keywords:
enslave, liberties, peril, put in
«Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril»
«If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril.»
«His love of danger, his intense appreciation of the drama of an adventure--all the more intense for being held tightly in--his consistent view that every peril in life is a form of sport, a fierce game betwixt you and Fate, with Death as a forfeit, made him a wonderful companion at such hours.»
«America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.»
Author: George W. Bush
(President)
| Keywords:
cloud, facing, gathering, gatherings, mushroom, mushrooms, mushroom cloud, peril, smoking, The Smoking Gun, threat
«By this, he seemed to mean, not only that the most reliable and useful courage was that which arises from the fair estimation of the encountered peril, but that an utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.»
Author: Herman Melville
(Novelist, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
comrade, encountered, estimation, fearless, peril
«All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.»
«I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived»
«A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
hour, indeed, nation, nations, peril, strengthened, that nation, The Perils of, tradition, weakening
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