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Letter "T" » threat
«The hero is valorous because he stands up to every threat directed against his values. Heroism requires value conflict.»
«The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.»
Author: Audre Lorde
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Activist,
Poet,
Teacher)
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Keywords:
lessened,
lessening,
lessens,
psychic,
shared,
sharer,
sharers,
sharing,
the threat of,
threat
«The perfect no-stress environment is the grave. When we change our perception we gain control. The stress becomes a challenge, not a threat. When we commit to action, to actually doing something rather than feeling trapped by events, the stress in our life becomes manageable.»
«The great threat to the young and pure in heart is not what they read but what they don't read.»
«The thing to remember about fathers is, they're men. A girl has to keep it in mind: They are dragon-seekers, bent on improbable rescues. Scratch any father, you find someone chock-full of qualms and romantic terrors, believing change is a threat -- like your first shoes with heels on, like your first bicycle I it took such months to get.»
Author: Phyllis McGinley
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Keywords:
bent,
bent on,
chock-full,
chock,
dragon,
fathers,
heels,
improbable,
qualm,
qualms,
rescues,
rescuing,
romantic,
scratch,
seekers,
terrors,
threat
«The threat from Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction - chemical, biological, potentially nuclear weapons capability - that threat is real.»
«The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is no shame today. We're all getting so mean and small and petty and ridiculous, and we all live under the threat of extermination.»
Author: Norman Mailer
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Keywords:
dried-up,
dried,
extermination,
exterminations,
petty,
romantic,
sickness,
smaller,
The Romantic,
The Sickness,
the threat of,
threat
«To interpose the threat of physical destruction between a man and his perception of reality, is to negate and paralyze his means of survival; to force him to act against his own judgment, is like forcing him to act against his own sight»
Author: Ayn Rand
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Novelist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
forcing,
interpose,
interposed,
interposing,
negate,
negated,
negating,
paralyze,
physical force,
the threat of,
threat
«We can defend ourselves against Iraq. It would be quick and easy. But, it's worth waiting a little while because it's not a military threat.»
«The real threat to whales is whaling, which has endangered many whale species.»