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"Laws do not persuade just because they threaten." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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"Go after a man's weakness, and never, ever, threaten unless you're going to follow through, because if you don't, the next time you won't be taken seriously." »Roy M. Cohn
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"Two dangers constantly threaten the world order and disorder." »Paul Valery
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"The true beauty of nature is her amplitude she exists neither for nor because of us, and possesses a staying power that all our nuclear arsenals cannot threaten (much as we can easily destroy our puny selves)." »Stephen Jay Gould
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"We must uphold the promise of Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, and Clinton and never allow the President and his Republican friends to threaten Social Security by putting it on the Wall Street trading block." »John Kerry, Speech at Democratic Convention, May 31, 2002
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"Chain letters are not illegal. What is illegal is to threaten lives in such letters or solicit money." »Deane Jordan
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"Now the alternative to despair is courage. And human life can be viewed as a continuous struggle between these two options. Courage is the capacity to affirm one's life in spite of the elements which threaten it. The fact that courage usually predominates over despair in itself tells us something important about life. It tells you that the forces that affirm life are stronger than those that negate it." »Paul E. Pfuetze
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