#dangerous

There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot. ↗

— Scott Adams

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I have had to work long and hard to eradicate the dangerous delusion that, in a bad position, I could always, or nearly always, conjure up some unexpected combination to extricate me from my difficulties. ↗

— Alexander Alekhine

#bad #combination #conjure #could #dangerous

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#itself #thinking #thoughts

When the state or federal government control the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens. ↗

— Michael Badnarik

#citizens #control #dangerous #education #federal

And then, every time I didn't see her, there was a fall involved. I thought about dancing on the fifth-floor ledge outside out apartment. Every train she wasn't on felt something like hitting the pavement from five floors up. So maybe my father was right about that. Maybe happiness and excitement really are dangerous things. ↗

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

#dangerous #excited #excitement #fall #happiness

War springs from the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substitute, one of the most dangerous being nationalism. ↗

— Robert Runcie

#being #dangerous #god #love #loyalty

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it. ↗

— Marc Almond

#dangerous #dangerous place #i #never #place

Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive. ↗

— Henry Steele Commager

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Portraying as human the people you hear about on the news doing bad things is dangerous. But it's also necessary and important. ↗

— Domhnall Gleeson

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