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61 " All choices are fraught with peril, but inaction is the most perilous of all. "
― Allan Frewin Jones , The Lost Queen (Faerie Path, #2)
62 " Has it ever occurred to any of you that all this is simply one grand misunderstanding? Since you're not here to learn anything, but to be taught so you can pass these tests, knowledge has to be organized so it can be taught, and it has to be reduced to information so it can be organized do you follow that? In other words this leads you to assume that organization is an inherent property of the knowledge itself, and that disorder and chaos are simply irrelevant forces that threaten it from the outside. In fact it's exactly the opposite. Order is simply a thin, perilous condition we try to impose on the basic reality of chaos... "
― William Gaddis , JR
63 " The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity. "
― Edna St. Vincent Millay
64 " The ambitious climb high and perilous stairs and never care how to come down the desire of rising hath swallowed up their fear of a fall. "
65 " One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs. "
66 " Life is a perilous voyage. "
67 " The ambitious climbs high and perilous stairs and never cares how to come down the desire of rising hath swallowed up his fear of a fall. "
68 " Imagine a weary sailor coming home to port in the midst of a brutal storm. Along the horizon he sees the burning lights of dozens of lighthouses. And yet he knows from experience that some are so old they've receded miles inland as the shore has grown. Others are simply fakes, put out by sadists and rivals. To be a citizen in these strange times is to perpetually find oneself in that poor sailor's perilous state. We know that danger lurks in the darkness, but we don't know if we have the means to avoid it. "
― Christopher L. Hayes , Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy
69 " I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor. "
70 " To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation. "
71 " A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head. "
― Elizabeth I
72 " 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. "
73 " History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are. "
― David McCullough
74 " I fear we might be losing the basic human facility to be alone - and with that you throw out independent decision-making, what to trust, what not to trust; key stuff - a perilous loss. "
75 " Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women. "
76 " There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. "
