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“Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.” Confucius, “Analects”

“Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.” John Muir, “The Mountains of California” - 1894

“Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.” William Shakespeare, “Henry IV, Part 1” - 1597

“Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change. Only those animals partake of intelligence that have to meet a huge variety of needs and dangers.” H. G. Wells, “The Time Machine” - 1895

“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.” Aldous Huxley, “Brave New World” - 1932

“There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have in plenty.” L. Frank Baum, “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” - 1900

“Don't say any more about what danger I'm in, I only fear danger where I want to fear it.” Franz Kafka, “The Trial” - 1925

“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.” Samuel Johnson, “The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia” - 1759

“He fought the real battle in the tunnel alone, before he ever saw the vast danger that lay in wait.” J. R. R. Tolkien, “The Hobbit” - 1937

“But courtiers don’t take wagers against the king’s skill. There is the deadly danger of winning.” Isaac Asimov, “Foundation” - 1951

“In the past... those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.” John F. Kennedy, “Inaugural Address” - 20 January 1961

“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.” Oscar Wilde, “Intentions” - 1891

“A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.” Oscar Wilde, “Intentions” - 1891

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.” J. R. R. Tolkien, “The Fellowship of the Ring” - 1954

“Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.” David Hume, “A Treatise of Human Nature” - 1738

“Success is as dangerous as failure.” Lao Tzu, “Tao Te Ching” - 4th century BC

“A coin is as dangerous as a sword in the wrong hands.” George R. R. Martin, “A Storm of Swords” - 2000

“The storms come and go, the waves crash overhead, the big fish eat the little fish, and I keep on paddling.” George R. R. Martin, “A Clash of Kings” - 1999

“Most people see the world as a threatening place, and, because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place.” Paulo Coelho, “The Alchemist” - 1988

“Ay, an you had any eye behind you, you might see more detraction at your heels than fortunes before you.” William Shakespeare, “Twelfth Night” - 1623

“In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.” George Bernard Shaw, “Man and Superman” - 1903

“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.” William Shakespeare, “Henry IV, Part 2” - 1600

“Since all is well, keep it so: wake not a sleeping wolf.” William Shakespeare, “Henry IV, Part 2” - 1600

“I am as vigilant as a cat to steal cream.” William Shakespeare, “Henry IV, Part 1” - 1597

“He's truly valiant that can wisely suffer the worst that man can breathe, and make his wrongs his outsides, to wear them like his raiment, carelessly, and ne'er prefer his injuries to his heart, to bring it into danger.” William Shakespeare, “Timon of Athens” - 1623

“Sometimes the isle was thick with savages, with whom we fought, sometimes full of dangerous animals that hunted us, but in all my fancies nothing occurred to me so strange and tragic as our actual adventures.” Robert Louis Stevenson, “Treasure Island” - 1883

“Great perils have this fine characteristic, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.” Victor Hugo, “Les Misérables” - 1862

“Snow-crystals, the flowers of the mountain clouds, are frail, beautiful things, but terrible when flying on storm-winds in darkening, benumbing swarms or when welded together into glaciers full of deadly crevasses.” John Muir, “Stickeen” - 1897

“The thunderbolt without the reverberations of thunder would frighten man but little, though the danger lies in the lightning, not in the noise.” Jules Verne, “Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea” - 1870

“For the moment the peril was nowhere and yet everywhere. The majority remained solid; but the leaders became stiff and exacting.” Anatole France, “Penguin Island” - 1908

“People were stupid, sometimes. They thought the Library was a dangerous place because of all the magical books, which was true enough, but what made it really one of the most dangerous places there could ever be was the simple fact that it was a...” Terry Pratchett, “Guards! Guards!” - 1989

“Let those who are snake-charmers play with snakes; if harm comes to them, they are prepared for it. But these boys are so innocent, all the world is ready with its blessing to protect them. They play with a snake not knowing its nature, and when...” Rabindranath Tagore, “The Home and the World” - 1916

“Animals when in company walk in a proper and sensible manner, in single file, instead of sprawling all across the road and being of no use or support to each other in case of sudden trouble or danger.” Kenneth Grahame, “The Wind in the Willows” - 1908

“In human affairs of danger and delicacy successful conclusion is sharply limited by hurry.” John Steinbeck, “East of Eden” - 1952

“The wife, where danger or dishonour lurks, safest and seemliest by her husband stays, who guards her, or with her the worst endures.” John Milton, “Paradise Lost” - 1667

“As we gather tonight, our nation is at war, our economy is in recession, and the civilized world faces unprecedented dangers. Yet the state of our Union has never been stronger.” George W. Bush, “State of the Union Address” - 29 January 2002

“So long as training camps operate, so long as nations harbor terrorists, freedom is at risk. And America and our allies must not, and will not, allow it.” George W. Bush, “State of the Union Address” - 29 January 2002

“We have no reason to harbor any mistrust against our world, for it is not against us. If it has terrors, they are our terrors; if it has abysses, these abysses belong to us; if there are dangers, we must try to love them.” Rainer Maria Rilke, “Letters to a Young Poet” - 1929

“I may hope, therefore, that my chance of escaping serious errors is as good as that of anyone else, who might have been persuaded to undertake the somewhat perilous enterprise in which I find myself engaged.” Thomas Henry Huxley, “The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century” - 1887

“In our view, however, derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction, carrying dangers that, while now latent, are potentially lethal.” Warren Buffett, “The Essays of Warren Buffett” - 1997

“In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger; I do not shrink from this responsibility... I welcome it.” John F. Kennedy, “Inaugural Address” - 20 January 1961

“All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril.” Oscar Wilde, “The Picture of Dorian Gray” - 1890

“I’m going to keep going until I succeed — or I die. Don’t think I don’t know how this might end. I’ve known it for years.” J. K. Rowling, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” - 2007

“Our cause is never more in danger, than when a human, no longer desiring, but intending, to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.” C. S. Lewis, “The Screwtape Letters” - 1942

“There are no safe paths in this part of the world. Remember you are over the Edge of the Wild now, and in for all sorts of fun wherever you go.” J. R. R. Tolkien, “The Hobbit” - 1937

“The unseen enemy is always the most fearsome.” George R. R. Martin, “A Clash of Kings” - 1999

“All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life.” Herman Melville, “Moby-Dick” - 1851

“the danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort.” Paulo Coelho, “Veronika Decides to Die” - 1998

“the too great care we take of our bodies is the only obstacle to the success of those projects which require rapid decision, and vigorous and determined execution.” Alexandre Dumas, “The Count of Monte Cristo” - 1845

“She lov'd me for the dangers I had pass'd; And I lov'd her that she did pity them.” William Shakespeare, “Othello” - 1623

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