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A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head. ↗

— Elizabeth I

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There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity. ↗

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race. ↗

— James Earl Jones

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Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous. ↗

— Maria Edgeworth

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Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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She has great problems of her own to solve, very grim and perilous problems, and a right solution, if we can attain to it, would largely benefit mankind. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

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Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

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In LA, where I live, it's all about perfectionism. Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

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History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are. ↗

— David McCullough

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