Quotes by danger
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If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.
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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
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A Victory without danger is a triumph without glory.
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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
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A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.
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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.
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A nation is not in danger of financial disaster merely because it owes itself money.
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A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.
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A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.
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A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation.
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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.
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A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without finding himself in his rightful place of composition, the small single unluxurious ''retreat'' of the twentieth century, the hotel bedroom.
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And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes.
Source: Out of the Silent Planet (1938) Hyoi, p. 76
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