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Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution.
Vladimir Nabokov
Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
Ambrose Bierce
She has great problems of her own to solve, very grim and perilous problems, and a right solution, if we can attain to it, would largely benefit mankind.
Henry Cabot Lodge
I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.
Horatio Nelson
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Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.
Jean Jacques Rousseau 
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Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
Ambrose Bierce
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She has great problems of her own to solve, very grim and perilous problems, and a right solution, if we can attain to it, would largely benefit mankind.
Henry Cabot Lodge
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I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.
Horatio Nelson
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Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
Confucius
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It is often more important to act than to understand... there are times... when two conflicting opinions, though one happens to be right, are more perilous than one opinion which is wrong.
John Grierson
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Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.
Maria Edgeworth
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Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.
James Earl Jones
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This is a perilous time, and more than ever, the world needs a united and strong America. If, God forbid, we live to see Mr. Obama president, we will live through a socialist era that America has not seen before, and our country will be weakened in every way.
Jon Voight
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