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Heroics are not easily had for the young in our times. Perhaps that is why they go to such extremes to create their own dangers.
We have a society that's trying to make sure that nobody gets any adventures because adventures are dangerous and danger is bad.
The producers of 'Chernobyl' should tell the truth: the accident demonstrates the relative safety, not danger, of nuclear power.
Democracy is an extraordinary adventure. It's difficult, full of daring and risk and danger. But it's the greatest gift we have.
When a man knows how to live amid danger, he is not afraid to die. When he is not afraid to die, he is, strangely, free to live.
The perpetual danger which besets religion is that it may substitute gentility and aestheticism for prophetic insight and power.
You will not understand your part within the framework of nature until you actually see yourselves in danger of tearing it apart.
Radical Islamic terrorists and those who fund it remain a credible threat to America and a clear and present danger to democracy.
The thing that I champion is sustainability. My terror is that suddenly we see it as a luxury, not an essential. That's a danger.
Being dissatisfied and properly dissatisfied with the husk of Hinduism, you are in danger of losing even the kernel, life itself.
A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.
I believe that Trump is a danger. I believe that he wants to tighten and build up his relationship to Russia for whatever reasons.
Cristiano has unique qualities, brings danger in one-on-one situations, and has the ability to score and find something different.
Let the child feel Christ is near him; By your faith will grow his own; Death nor danger will affright him If he never feels alone.
Danger has been a part of my life ever since I picked up a pen and wrote. Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies.
These times of ours are series and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.
What excites me is danger! I like to do daring things. I've bungee jumped three times. The only thing I haven't tried is skydiving.
If I see a live show and it doesn't have the aspect of danger where it could potentially go wrong, it's not that interesting to me.
I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for.
My wife says I have a frontal lobe issue. Your frontal lobe controls your danger response, like, 'Whoa, I shouldn't be doing this.'
Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture.
The wife, where danger or dishonour lurks, Safest and seemliest by her husband stays, Who guards her, or with her the worst endures.
I did not imagine that the second half of my life would be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger to humanity created by science.
I've always believed the greater danger is not aiming too high, but too low, settling for a bogey rather than shooting for an eagle.
When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.
The problem comes when you say that danger is part of the equation. Then you don't do any more work on safety. That shouldn't happen.
I think you have a danger of regulating, putting regulations in place which will mean there will be no press in 10 years to regulate.
Power is what spoils people. Yes, it seems to me that the seeking after power is the great danger and the great corruptor of mankind.
The people will always attempt to find the positive aspects of all circumstances, which, in themselves, are not susceptible to danger.
We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.
I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.
I get to do the most amazing things. We call it Host in Peril quite often, because people love to see me risk my life or be in danger.
Lots of the things we do are dangerous, but life itself is dangerous; nothing is really worth bothering with that isn't full of danger
If you know from history the danger, then part of the danger is over because it may not take you by surprise as it did your ancestors.
There is a danger to judicial independence when people have no understanding of how the judiciary fits into the constitutional scheme.
Some people say I miss a lot of shots, but I'm not missing them, that's how I set them up. I'm not in danger if I don't get a takedown.
People want to protect their way of life, and when they think it's in danger they start grasping for more extreme-seeming alternatives.
danger is a biologic necessity, like dreams. if you face death, for that time, for the period of direct confrontation, you are immortal.
That seems to me the great American danger we're all in, that we'll bargain away the experience of being alive for the appearance of it.
We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
The danger with hatred is, once you start in on it, you get a hundred times more than you bargained for. Once you start, you can't stop.
I think there's a danger, for me at least, in retreating and going inward and depression. I have to stay diligent against that tendency.
I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you're afraid to the point where you censor yourself.
The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.
Constant and pervasive danger makes agile movement a high priority for all soldiers, whether they are assigned directly to combat or not.
If the Supreme Court rules that rent control is an unconstitutional taking of property, it would put all sorts of zoning rules in danger.
You have to go out of your way as a suspense novelist to find situations where the protagonists are somewhat helpless and in real danger.
Stories and narratives are one of the most powerful things in humanity. They're devices for dealing with the chaotic danger of existence.
Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.