 He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones. Author: A. J. P. Taylor
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| If we cling to the institution of Islam, then we tend to defend it against whatever we see as a danger to it, so because of this we see now that many people are defending states, defending territories, defending everything institutional in the belief that they defend Islam. Author: Abdurrahman Wahid
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| I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.' Author: Abigail Adams
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| True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance. Author: Abigail Van Buren
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| Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger. Author: Abraham Cahan
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| Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger. Author: Abu Bakr
Topics: Anger |
| I think it's always dangerous to make political arguments in a religiously ideological way. And it's very dangerous to treat as traitors to the American nation those who think differently. Author: Adam Michnik
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| The new century has brought on its own terrible dangers, which although not reaching the apocalyptic potential of the Cold War, still have the capacity to shake our world. Author: Adam Schiff
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| As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's anger; but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex. Author: Adam Sedgwick
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| There are no strangers on Christmas Eve. Author: Adele Comandini
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| On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers. Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
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| You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy. Author: Adrian Edmondson
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| The danger is that if you have a bunch of ideas that you forget to use. Author: Adrian Lyne
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| What I think is interesting is that the more you do, you have to invent a book of rules of what you can do and what you can't do. And the very real danger is that if your book of rules becomes a book of cliches. Author: Adrian Lyne
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| I want to speak, to sing to total strangers. It's my way of talking to the world. Author: Adrian Mitchell
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| Here in the big city people spend their time thinking about work and about money; they don't give some value to friendships and it can be depressing. Author: Adriana Lima
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| There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger. Author: Agatha Christie
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| Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt. Author: Agnes Repplier
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| There is a danger of changing too much in the search for perfection. Author: Agnetha Faltskog
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| Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend. Author: Akhenaton
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| I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for me is working out when it's useful to use that anger. Author: Alan Alda
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| There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger. Author: Alan Bleasdale
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| Dawn was written well before 9/11. People speak a lot today about the banality of evil, but not all evil is banal. Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That's where the real danger lies. Author: Alan Dean Foster
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| Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers. Author: Alan King
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| Strangers still leave me self-conscious. Author: Alan Ladd
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| I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love and a world of human and spiritual references I have smuggled into these three movements, the adherents of programme music - should there be any left - would go mad with joy. Author: Alban Berg
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| How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing. Author: Albert Camus
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| Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools. Author: Albert Einstein
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| The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it. Author: Albert Einstein
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| We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger. Author: Albert Schweitzer
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| And we want to develop our strategy to partnership and friendship with the United States, which is connected with a very rich history but what is very important for our future. Author: Aleksander Kwasniewski
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| I have had to work long and hard to eradicate the dangerous delusion that, in a bad position, I could always, or nearly always, conjure up some unexpected combination to extricate me from my difficulties. Author: Alexander Alekhine
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| I am sure that in Canada the people appreciate this principle, and the general intelligence which prevails over that country is such that I am sure there is no danger of a reactionary policy ever finding a response in the hearts of any considerable number of our people. Author: Alexander Mackenzie
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| Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish. Freedom is always wise. Author: Alexander Meiklejohn
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| A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring. Author: Alexander Pope
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| How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens. Author: Alexander the Great
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| All generalizations are dangerous, even this one. Author: Alexandre Dumas
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| The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long. It separates us from reality like a fog. Author: Alexis Carrel
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| I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all. Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
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| In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships. Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
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| No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country. Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
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| All lasting business is built on friendship. Author: Alfred A. Montapert
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| A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous. Author: Alfred Adler
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| The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions. Author: Alfred Adler
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| I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers. Author: Alfred Day Hershey
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| It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties. Author: Alfred North Whitehead
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| French Yemeni relations are strong and good, they are relations depending on friendship and cooperation; my relationship with the president Chiraq are old and real. Author: Ali A. Saleh
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| I don't date guys that I just meet randomly. I don't feel comfortable meeting strangers. Author: Ali Landry
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| Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on. Author: Alice Duer Miller
Topics: Anger |
| There can be no intelligent control of the lead danger in industry unless it is based on the principle of keeping the air clear from dust and fumes. Author: Alice Hamilton
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| But as I was saying, from my experiences, I think men tend to be more timid in expressing their feelings for you. Regardless, I always prefer a friendship first and foremost. Author: Alicia Machado
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| I was so happy that it filmed in New York not only because it's an amazing city, but also because a lot of people across the world somehow started to think about New York as a dangerous place to be and envisioned it as some war zone after that happened. Author: Alicia Witt
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| There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds. Author: Allen Boyd
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| Last year, customs officials screened only five percent of the 11 million cargo containers entering the United States. That rate is both unacceptable and dangerous to our national and economic interests. Author: Allyson Schwartz
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| It is of the greatest importance that people and governments in many more countries than ours should realize that it is more dangerous to have access to nuclear arms than not to possess them. Author: Alva Myrdal
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| Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art. Author: Alvar Aalto
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| One-third of our people were dangerously ill, getting worse hourly, and we felt sure of meeting the same fate, with death as our only prospect, which in such a country was much worse yet. Author: Alvar N. C. de Vaca
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| Friendships are forgotten when the game begins. Author: Alvin Dark
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| Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth. Author: Ambrose Bierce
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| More men than women like 'Strangers With Candy'. Pretty girls don't like the show. They don't like to see an ugly lady. Author: Amy Sedaris
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| What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship? Author: Anais Nin
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| The only dangerous scene is when James Cromwell put a stake in my chest. But other than that, it turned out to be quite a punch. I didn't think much of it. Author: Andre Braugher
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| There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself. Author: Andre Breton
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| Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice. Author: Andreas Capellanus
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| The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger. Author: Andrew Jackson
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| The biggest lesson from Africa was that life's joys come mostly from relationships and friendships, not from material things. I saw time and again how much fun Africans had with their families and friends and on the sports fields; they laughed all the time. Author: Andrew Shue
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| When you start suppressing feelings at an early age, it hurts you down the road. Full expression of anger and pain is very important. Author: Andrew Shue
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| If you are a gay couple living in Alabama, you know one thing: your family has no standing under the law; and it can and will be violated by strangers. Author: Andrew Sullivan
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| The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last. Author: Andrew Sullivan
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| Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison. Author: Angela Carter
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| Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other. Author: Angela Davis
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| It certainly is dangerous that there are only a few clubs left in Europe that can afford to pay millions. At the end of the day however, the spectators decide the rates of pay - by watching the games and consuming the goods and services advertised on sports TV programmes. Author: Angela Merkel
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| Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll; women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant. Author: Ani DiFranco
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| Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends. Author: Ani DiFranco
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| Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy. Author: Anita Brookner
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| Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. Author: Ann Landers
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| Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness? Author: Anna Freud
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| Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces. Author: Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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| Even without wars, life is dangerous. Author: Anne Sexton
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| The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two. Author: Anne Sophie Swetchine
Topics: Friendship |
| You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth. Author: Annie Leibovitz
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| Glenn Close is a living icon. You look at the work, and I think it's wild, because she thinks some of her best work was in Dangerous Liaisons and that's what I believe as well. Author: Anthony Anderson
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| It's a problem for him because he's got - like Edward VII had - nearly all his lifetime to wait until he becomes Monarch. What is he going to do with it? So he wants to do something positive but he always courts those dangers. Author: Anthony Holden
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| Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent. Author: Anthony Trollope
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| A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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| Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something. Author: Anton Chekhov
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| The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well. Author: Anton Chekhov
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| Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. Author: Aristotle
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| Friendship is essentially a partnership. Author: Aristotle
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| Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves. Author: Aristotle
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| The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live. Author: Aristotle
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| Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. Author: Aristotle
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| But I'm acutely aware that the possibility of fraud is even more prevalent in today's world because of the Internet and cell phones and the opportunity for instant communication with strangers. Author: Armistead Maupin
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| But it's amazing how many people think that gay men should slink off into the shadows when it comes to having friendships with children. Author: Armistead Maupin
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| I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers. Author: Armistead Maupin
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| The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live. Author: Armistead Maupin
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| Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war. Above all, we are free men, and they are slaves. Author: Arrian
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| The buffalo isn't as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more Americans are killed in automobile accidents than are killed by buffalo. Author: Art Buchwald
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| We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy. Author: Arthur Ashe
Topics: Friendship |
| Any plan of administration which contemplates a concentrating of responsibility is open to the dangers which follow the creation of a bureaucracy. Author: Arthur Capper
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