#threatens

We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us. ↗

— John Lancaster Spalding

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America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children. ↗

— George W. Bush

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The coward only threatens when he is safe. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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The privatization plan weakens Social Security and threatens our economic security by creating trillions of dollars in new debt. ↗

— Ruben Hinojosa

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If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

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Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible. ↗

— Maya Angelou

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If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies. ↗

— Karl Kraus

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I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America's role as a light among nations. But there are no values that matter to me that will not be gravely endangered if we lose this war. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

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However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

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Thus united to them in the fellowship of life, he will both understand the things revealed to them by God and, thenceforth escaping the peril that threatens sinners in the judgment, will receive that which is laid up for the saints in the kingdom of heaven. ↗

— Athanasius

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