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“If within the last century art conceived as an autonomous activity has come to be invested with an unprecedented stature - the nearest thing to a sacramental human activity acknowledged by secular society - it is because one of the tasks art has assumed is making forays into and taking up positions on the frontiers of consciousness (often very dangerous to the artist as a person) and reporting back what's there.”

Ifs Humans Persons Art Lasts Artist Consciousness Century Dangerous Position Activity Tasks Secular Frontiers Unprecedented Stature Human Activity Autonomous Secular Society

Author:Susan Sontag

“Unless the Security Council is restored to its pre-eminent position as the sole source of legitimacy on the use of force, we are on a dangerous path to anarchy.”

Use Force Path Security Dangerous Position Source Anarchy Sole Council Legitimacy Security Council Use Of Force

Author:Kofi Annan

“New Rule: Since our new national position on science is, "Screw it, we prefer witchcraft," let's not just retire the Space Shuttle Atlantis. Let's drive it to one of the five stupidest States and have the locals beat it with sticks. Putting it in a museum is too dangerous. Someone could steal it, fly it into space and notice we revolve around the sun.”

States Space Sun Five Dangerous Position Beats Sticks Stealing Locals Museums Retiring Screws Witchcraft Stupidest Atlantis Space Shuttle

Book:The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody but Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass

Source: The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody but Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass

“We have been trying to point out that this concept of an indefinitely favorable future is dangerous, even if it is true; because even if it is true you can easily overvalue the security, since you make it worth anything you want it to be worth. Beyond this, it is particularly dangerous too, because sometimes your ideas of the future turn out to be wrong. Then you have paid an awful lot for a future that isn't there. Your position then is pretty bad.”

Ifs Want Trying Has Beens Ideas Sometimes Turns Security Dangerous Position Concepts Paid Awful True You

Book:Current problems in security analysis

Source: Current problems in security analysis

“Anyone living, especially your peers, is a threat. You're judging them, they're judging you. This sort of criticism is as close to human nature as you can get. That can be a good thing sometimes. Jealously, rancor, competition, those can be good things in art. But it mostly puts you in a dangerous and disadvantageous position, and one that just takes away from you so much.”

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Author:Raymond Pettibon

“Opposing Bush's troop surge is a dangerous position.”

Dangerous Position Opposing

Author:Mike Huckabee

“Bill Clinton gives the appearance of taking stands-for some sort of tax cut, some sort of welfare reform, some sort of balanced budget-but these are ploys, mirages: they exist only to undermine positions taken by the Republicans. He doesn't fight for anything substantive-except of course, re-election. ...He has fallen into the dangerous habit of lip synching the presidency: he gives the appearance of leadership, but not the substance.”

“Learn from the mistakes of others - you won't live long enough to make them all yourself. He's opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer him the position.”

Long Enough Would Be Mistake Dangerous Position Offers Millionaire

Author:Mark Twain

“I've made a contribution to my time and my generation through being myself, not through what I shared with the Rolling Stones. It's very bad for me and very dangerous to see myself as someone who had an influence on this song or that song. It immediately puts me in the position where my worth is dependent on how much of my soul I shared with Mick Jagger, and it's just not valid. You can use the gossip you've heard. You're not getting it from me.”

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Author:Marianne Faithfull

“But every time new powers emerge they have to find their balance. New powers are emerging, old powers are declining. It's not that process that's dangerous, it's the emerging position that's dangerous.”

Process Dangerous Position Balance Emerging

Author:George Friedman

“After one has been in a lowly position, one knows how dangerous it is to climb to a high place, Once one has been in the dark, one knows how revealing it is to go into the light. Having maintained quietude, one knows how tiring compulsive activity is. Having nurtured silence, one knows how disturbing much talk is.”

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Author:Zicheng Hong

“In America, to have news that has explicitly taken a position is a very strange place to be in, and it's a very dangerous place to be in. And that's happening on Facebook, as you saw, and that's happening online. People are just being given their news and not the news, which is really, really scary.”

People America Given Taken Saws Dangerous Position Strange News Happenings Scary Online Just Being Dangerous Places Really Scary Strange Places

Author:Trevor Noah