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If so, then before we can begin to yield the benefits of this technology we must prepare to avoid the accompanying dangers.

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My theory thus sheds a novel light on the arguments about the merits and dangers of different forms of executive structure.

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However, there appear to be real dangers of excessive complexity when long subclass chains are left in large systems.

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In relation to the dangers of smoking, the findings here showed that parents believed their children were knowledgeable.

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Apart from physical dangers (falls, scalds, and so on), being ‘ at home ‘ may mean being lonely, isolated and afraid.

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Nothing human can deliver people from the dangers that threaten, who seem to think of nothing less than delivering themselves.

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We also deal with issues such as the dangers of contagion and of excessive freedom of international capital movements.

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The logic is that any civilization intelligent enough to construct such probes would also be intelligent enough to realize the inherent dangers.

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The dangers of misattribution and misidentification of influences are manifold.

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Deprived of every tender care, exposed to all the dangers and difficulties of hostile operations in another quarter of the globe.

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Of course, there are dangers in such compensation strategies, including the selection bias implied regarding the risk preferences of employees in different kinds of organizations.

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Although there would be sufficient hardships and dangers and problems to give spice to life, there would be no utterly destructive and apparently vindictive evil.

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Because the temptations and dangers would be minor, the process of soul-making would be gentler and slower.

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They do not even f linch at the greatest dangers.

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The parable points not to an overarching meaning, but self-reflexively to its status as text, and to the dangers of the story-making process.

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