#danger

When you're young you believe it when people tell you how good you are. And that's the danger, you inhale. Everyone will tell you you're a genius, which you are not, and if you understand that, you win. ↗

— George Clooney

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I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It's for others; it's for others to use. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

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Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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Man is imperfect. The reality he creates is always endangered by man. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

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A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad. ↗

— Bob Edwards

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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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There is nothing more dangerous than security. ↗

— Francis Walsingham

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Dawn was written well before 9/11. People speak a lot today about the banality of evil, but not all evil is banal. Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That's where the real danger lies. ↗

— Alan Dean Foster

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The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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