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I thought this must be obvious to everyone else, as it seemed obvious to me; and that, if once it became apparent that we were on the edge, all the Great Powers would call a halt and recoil from the abyss.

— Edward Grey

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

We are at the edge of an abyss and we're close to being irrevocably lost.

— David R. Brower

The thing that I would say is that U.S. power is not eternal. I am not saying that it won't come to an end. Because it will.

— Robert Kagan

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

— Stewart Udall

I'm suggesting that, ironically, the secret to becoming a world 'hyperpower' is tolerance. If you look at history, you see great powers being very tolerant in their rise to global dominance.

— Amy Chua

We all have an edge. We all are floating our psyche on top with a great ocean underneath.

— Brad Dourif

'Let the Great World Spin' at the end talks a lot about connections and light and possibility and the fact that the world doesn't end. Even in the darkest times, we have to go on.

— Colum McCann

At times, we forget the magnitude of the havoc we can wreak by off-loading our minds onto super-intelligent machines, that is, until they run away from us, like mad sorcerers' apprentices, and drag us up to the precipice for a look down into the abyss.

— Richard Dooling

One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.

— Gustave Flaubert

You need tremendous spirituality to stop yourself falling into the abyss.

— Ingrid Betancourt

✗Opposing Perspectives

I truly believe that we have infinite levels of power that we don't even know are available to us.

— Michael J. Fox