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- Danger knows full well that Caesar is more dangerous than he. We are two lions litter'd in one day, and I the elder and more terrible.
(William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar")
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- I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much, He is a great observer, and he looks Quite through the deeds of men. He loves no plays As thou dost, Anthony; he heard no music; Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mocked himself and scorned his spirit That could be moved to smile at anything. Such men as he be never at heart's ease Whiles they behold a greater than themselves, And therefore are they very dangerous.
(William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar")
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- Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That's what life's all about. Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off.
(Wally Lamb, "She's Come Undone")
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- When one fib becomes due as it were, you must forge another to take up the old acceptance; and so the stock of your lies in circulation inevitably multiplies, and the danger of detection increases every day.
(William Makepeace Thackeray, "Vanity Fair")
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- The presence of danger has a way of making you feel fully awake.
(Tim O'Brien, "The Things They Carried")
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- Beer does not satisfy magic, however. So the magic ordered a round of Harvey Wallbangers. But it takes more than vodka to fuel magic. It takes risks. It takes EXTREMES.
(Tom Robbins, "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues")
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- But you must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. The world is in balance, in Equilibrium. A wizard's power of Changing and Summoning can shake the balance of the world. It is dangerous, that power...It must follow knowledge, and serve need.
(Ursula K. Le Guin, "A Wizard of Earthsea")
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- She loved with so much passion as she loved with ignorance. She did not know whether it were good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary or accidental, eternal or transitory, permitted or prohibited: she loved.
(Victor Hugo, "Les Misérables")
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- Despite our tiffs, despite her nastiness, despite all the fuss and faces she made, and the vulgarity, and the danger, and the horrible hopelessness of it all, I still dwelled deep in my elected paradise - a paradise whose skies were the color of hell-flames - but still a paradise.
(Vladimir Nabokov, "Lolita")
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- Danger's over, Banana Breakfast is saved.
(Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow")
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- I believe that the combination of pencil and memory creates a kind of practical magic, and magic is dangerous.
(Stephen King, "The Green Mile")
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- You aren't exactly the best judge of what is or isn't dangerous.
(Stephenie Meyer, "Eclipse")
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- And, by the way, I adore you.... in frightening, dangerous ways.
(Stephenie Meyer, "Midnight Sun")
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- 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 as our actual adventures.
(Robert Louis Stevenson, "Treasure Island")
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- But risk is just part of relationships. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't.
(Sarah Dessen, "Lock and Key")
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