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“If I get even five per cent of my ideas out and documented before I die, I'll be lucky. I'm not in danger of running out of riffs or ideas anytime soon. They overwhelm me and it's hard to find time to deal with them.”

Ifs Ideas Hard Running Dies Deals Five Danger Lucky Cents Before I Die

Author:Jello Biafra

“To be extremely self-centred, only interested in your own satisfaction, always brings negative consequences in the long run.”

Long Self Running Danger Consequence Negative Satisfaction Nuclear Long Runs Negative Consequences

Author:Dalai Lama

“To elope is cowardly; it is running away from danger; and danger has become so rare in modern life.”

Running Modern Danger Running Away Modern Life Cowardly

Book:Aphorisms

Source: Aphorisms

“If we're not enthusiastic, we can't get things done. If we're over-enthusiastic, we run into the danger of being fanatical.”

Ifs Done Running Danger Enthusiasm Enthusiastic Things Done

Author:Woodrow Wyatt

“One of the most jolting days of adulthood comes the first time you run out of toilet paper. Toilet paper, up until this point, always just existed. And now it's a finite resource, constantly in danger of extinction, that must be carefully tracked and monitored, like pandas?”

Firsts Running Danger Paper Resources First Time Adulthood Finite Extinction Toilets Toilet Paper Pandas

Author:Kelly Williams Brown

“[...] it is right to be kind and even sacrifice ourselves to people who need kindness and lie in our way - otherwise, besides failing to help them, we run into the aridity of self-development. To seek for recipients of one's goodness, to play the Potted Jesus leads to the contray the Christian danger.”

People Way Needs Kind Self Play Helping Running Christian Lying Jesus Kindness Failing Sacrifice Danger Development Goodness Be Kind Self Development

Book:Commonplace Book

Source: Commonplace Book

“If the man succeeds in becoming indifferent to the opinions of his neighbors he runs into another danger, that of a distorted and extravagant self of the pride sort, since by the very process of gaining independence and immunity from the stings of depreciation and misunderstanding, he has perhaps lost that wholesome deference to some social tribunal that a man cannot dispense with and remain quite sane.”

Source: Human Nature and the Social Order

“We run a danger of trying to say the casualties are less than other wars or more than expected. It's just everybody matters, every person matters, and what really matters is having the strategy and the will to make sure any death is not - is honored by achieving an objective.”

Trying Persons War Matter Running Achieve Danger Strategy Expected Objectives Honored Casualties

Author:George W. Bush

“I needed some real danger and some mortal risk to run, to tranquilize me.”

Real Running Risk Danger Needed Mortals

Author:Thomas-Alexandre Dumas

“What do I actually mean when I say 'delusion'? I mean the absurdity of the claim that the excessive atomic armament of both sides creates a 'balance of terror' that reduces the danger of war; that in the long run it even offers a minimum of security. ... Hence the cynical saying: He who strikes first will die second.”

Firsts Mean Long War Running Dies Sides Security Danger Balance Offers Claims Terror Strikes Delusion Cynical Long Runs Minimum Absurdity Both Sides Armament

Author:Christa Wolf