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I like directors who come on the set and create something that's a little dangerous, difficult or unusual. ↗

— Elia Kazan

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Unquestionably, the mission in Iraq has become more dangerous and difficult. ↗

— Ron Kind

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Men like me, who merely wish to establish political freedom, will in such circumstances lose all their influence, and others will get influence who may become dangerous to all established interests whatsoever. ↗

— Lajos Kossuth

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If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

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Don't play for safety - it's the most dangerous thing in the world. ↗

— Hugh Walpole

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God is looking for people to use, and if you can get usable, he will wear you out. The most dangerous prayer you can pray is this: 'Use me.' ↗

— Rick Warren

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Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ↗

— George Washington

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Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided. ↗

— Mae West

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Fiction is dangerous because it lets you into other people's heads. It shows you that the world doesn't have to be like the one you live in." At the first nationally recognized science fiction convention in China in 2007, Gaiman took a party official aside and said, "While not actually illegal, science fiction is regarded as dangerous and subversive in China. Why did you say yes to a science-fiction convention?" The party official answered, "In China, we're really good at making things people bring to us, but we don't invent, we don't innovate." When Chinese party officials visited Google, Apple and Microsoft, they asked what the executives read as children. The official continued: "They all said, 'We read science fiction. The world doesn't have to be the way it is right now. We can change it.' " "That," said Gaiman, "is the big dangerous thing. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

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An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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