#danger

Boys should not play with weapons more dangerous than they understand. ↗

— E. T. A. Hoffmann

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Take the word of experience, I speak the truth: inaction is safest in danger. ↗

— Silius Italicus

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You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps. ↗

— George Konrad

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Through danger safety comes - through trouble rest. ↗

— John Marston

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The humble are in danger when those in power disagree. ↗

— Phaedrus

#disagree #humble #power #those

Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous. ↗

— William Proxmire

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By the winter of 1945-1946, the Russian peoples were being warned of the dangers from the West. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

#dangers #russian #warned #were #west

Nobody peels a banana before stabbing themselves with it. But that’s exactly how I love—dangerously. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#dangerous #dangerously #food #fruit #funny

They may not look dangerous, but if angered [bowtruckles] will gouge out human eyes with their fingers, which, as you can see, are very sharp and not at all desirable near the eyeballs. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#creatures #dangerous #eyeballs #gouge #anger

Laughing in the face of danger doesn't negate the fear, it simply enables you to smile at it. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#confidence #courage #danger #fear #fearless