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The sea is a dangerous place for a man who has no way to tell where he is.

From Longitude by Dava Sobel

#navigation#exploration#danger#seafaring
A person who has not been in danger is not a person.

From Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#experience#danger#growth
It was a battle against an invisible enemy.

From The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore

#struggle#invisibility#cancer#danger
The digital economy is a realm of opportunities and dangers.

From The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg

#digital-economy#opportunities#dangers#technology
The belief in the infallibility of numbers can be dangerous.

From Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'Neil

#numbers#belief#danger#critical-thinking#philosophy
The invisible threats in our environment can often be the most dangerous.

From The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson

#threats#environment#invisibility#danger#awareness
We are now letting the data make decisions for us, and that's dangerous.

From Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'Neil

#decision-making#data#danger#technology
Danger is a part of life that we must embrace.

From The Lunatic Express: Discovering the World via Its Most Dangerous Buses, Boats, Trains, and Planes by Carl Hoffman

#danger#life#embrace#courage#philosophy
It was an exhilarating but dangerous game we were playing.

From The Secret Race by Tyler Hamilton and Daniel Coyle

#exhilarating#dangerous#game#sports#risk
In the world of analysis, assumptions can be as dangerous as ignorance.

From The Psychology of Intelligence Analysis by Richards J. Heuer Jr.

#assumptions#danger#ignorance#analysis
There is a great danger in complacency; we must remain vigilant.

From Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark

#complacency#vigilance#danger#awareness