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Letter "D" » Danger
«Why is it that, as we grow older, we are so reluctant to change? It is not so much that new ideas are painful, for they are not. It is that old ideas are seldom entirely false, but have truth, great truth in them. The justification for conservatism is the desire to preserve the truths and standards of the past; its dangers, of which we are seldom aware, is that in preserving those values, we may miss the infinitely greater riches that lie in the future.»
Author: Dale E. Turner
| About:
Change,
Conservative,
Danger,
Elderly,
Future
| Keywords:
conservatism, justification, painful, reluctant
«The greater the fear the nearer the danger»
«We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.»
«The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world.»
«The petition of an empty hand is dangerous»
«When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.»
Author: Mark Rutherford
| About:
Danger,
Fear
| Keywords:
endeavoring, go on, occupy, prove, spite, strengthening
«What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.»
Author: Robert Francis Kennedy
| About:
Belief,
Conviction,
Danger,
Evil,
Extremes,
Injustice,
People
| Keywords:
extreme, extremist, extremists, intolerant, intolerant of, objectionable, opponents
«Three removes are as bad as a fire»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Danger
«When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he's doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911.»
Author: Erma Bombeck
| About:
Danger
| Keywords:
barking, bathroom, bathrooms, doing nothing, locked, running, running water, The Dog, water dog
«The thief is no danger to the beggar»
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