Danger
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I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it's on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you've got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.
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.
The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted.
The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.
I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin.
To throw oneself into strange teachings is quite dangerous.
To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.
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