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  • The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear. - Ralph Waldo Emerson


  • The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps. - David Lloyd George


  • Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies. - Baltasar Gracian


  • No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger. - Heraclitus


  • In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid. - Hitopadesa


  • Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers. - Victor Hugo


  • The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both - I Ching


  • If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? - Thomas H Huxley


  • One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never! - Ralph Waldo Emerson


  • 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. - I Ching


  • One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard. - Publilius Syrus


  • Actually, the streets are quite safe today, it's the people on them who aren't. - unknown


  • Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world. - Sir Hugh Walpole


  • Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south. - William Shakespeare


  • Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. - Helen Keller



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