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The standard business model for corporations is to lie, confuse and deny anything that may threaten their profitability.

Civilization is always threatened from below, by patterns of belief and emotion that may once have been useful to our ancestors, but that are useful no longer.

Even the most powerful enemies who threaten or oppress God__ children will one day fall.

When water fountains start charging to drink, then you know we have a problem.

I made spasmodic efforts to work, assuring myself that once I began working I would forget her. The difficulty was in beginning. There was a feeling of weakness, a sort of powerlessness now, as though I were about to be ill but was never quite ill enough, as though I were about to come down with something I did not quite come down with. It seemed to me that for the first time in my life I had been in love, and had lost, because of the grudgingness of my heart, the possibility of having what, too late, I now thought I wanted. What was it that all my life I had so carefully guarded myself against? What was it that I had felt so threatened me? My suffering, which seemed to me to be a strict consequence of having guarded myself so long, appeared to me as a kind of punishment, and this moment, which I was now enduring, as something which had been delayed for half a lifetime. I was experincing, apparently, an obscure crisis of some kind. My world acquired a tendency to crumble as easily as a soda cracker. I found myself horribly susceptible to small animals, ribbons in the hair of little girls, songs played late at night over lonely radios. It became particularly dangerous for me to go near movies in which crippled girls were healed by the unselfish love of impoverished bellhops. I had become excessively tender to all the more obvious evidences of the frailness of existence; I was capable of dissolving at the least kind word, and self-pity, in inexhaustible doses, lay close to my outraged surface. I moved painfully, an ambulatory case, mysteriously injured.

...it's strange, isn't it, how you don't know how big a part of you someone is until they're threatened? And then you think you can't possibly go on if something happens to them, but the most frightening part is that, actually, you will go on, you'll have to go on, with them or without them. There's just no telling what you'll become

If someone yells at me, they are not expressing love. They may be threatening me. They may be expressing great frustration with me. They may simply be trying to control my behavior. However, they are not communicating love.

Even if you are threatened with death, look at your situation right in the eye and praise the Lord

Penny rolled over, got to her feet, trying to get control of her scattered mind, but Quinn was behind her now and had his powerful arm around her neck.__ will snap your neck, Penny. I swear to God, I will snap your neck. Nothing you can do will stop me.__enny went limp. __ou think the king will let you get away with this, Quinn?_ she hissed.__nyone messes with me, Penny, you or anyone else, and I go on strike. See how well you enjoy life without me and my crews. Without food.

You can't let him get away with this!" Penny shrieked. Caine wasn__ having it. __ou stupid witch,_ he yelled back. __o one told you to let it go that far!___e was mine for the day,_ Penny hissed. She pressed a rag to her nose, which had started bleeding again.__e tore his own eyes out. What did you think Quinn would do? What do you think Albert will do now?_ He bit savagely at his thumb, a nervous habit.__ thought you were the king!__aine reacted without thinking. He swung a hard backhand at her face. The blow did not connect, but the thought did. Penny flew backward like she__ been hit by a bus. She smacked hard against the wall of the office.The blow stunned her, and Caine was in her face before she could clear her thoughts.Turk came bursting in, his gun leveled. __hat__ happening?___enny tripped,_ Caine said.Penny__ freckled face was white with fury.__on__,_ Caine warned. He tightened an invisible grip around her head and twisted it back at an impossible angle.Then Caine released her.Penny panted and glared. But no nightmare seized Caine__ mind. __ou__ better hope Lana can fix that boy, Penny.___ou__e getting soft._ Penny choked out the words.__eing king isn__ about being a sick creep,_ Caine said. __eople need someone in charge. People are sheep and they need a big sheepdog telling them what to do and where to go. But it doesn__ work if you start killing the sheep.___ou__e scared of Albert._ Penny followed it with a mocking laugh.____ scared of no one,_ Caine said. __east of all you, Penny. You live because I let you live. Remember that. The kids out there?_ He waved his hand toward the window, vaguely indicating the population of Perdido Beach. __hose kids out there hate you. You don__ have a single friend. Now get out of here. I don__ want to see you back here in my presence until you__e ready to crawl to me and beg my forgiveness.

If a danger threatens you, you threaten that danger too

A man can feel pain in an amputated arm (an arm that is not there). A man can also feel anxious when he thinks about how his soul will burn in the fire of hell when he is threatened by it though he cannot see it physically

I feel safe when people threaten me, but I feel threaten, when people respect me, because I understand they want something, but I do not understand what they want.