Samuel Adams
Politician
"The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks."
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Hazards
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Pythagoras
Philosopher, Mathematician
"It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few."
Thomas Huxley
Biologist, Anthropologist
"Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards."
Shirley Williams
Politician
"There are hazards in everything one does, but there are greater hazards in doing nothing."
George Washington
Military Leader, Politician
"I earnestly pray that the Omnipotent Being who has not deserted the cause of America in the hour of its extremest hazard, will never yield so fair a heritage of freedom a prey to 'Anarchy' or 'Despotism'."
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"We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard."
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"A writer's occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business."
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"He always considered death an unavoidable professional hazard."
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"A friend is worth all hazards we can run."
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"Men that hazard all Do it in hope of fair advantages: A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross."
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"Where thought is free in its range, we need never fear to hazard what is good in itself."
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"Here life itself, life at its best and healthiest, awaits the caprice of the bullet. Let us see the development of the day. All else may stand over, perhaps for ever. Existence is never so sweet as when it is at hazard."
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"When you are an actor, rejection and disappointment are an occupational hazard."
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"Writing is a solitary occupation, and one of its hazards is loneliness. But an advantage of loneliness is privacy, autonomy and freedom."
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"My occupational hazard is that I can't help plagiarizing from real life."
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"Taking pleasure in the dark side may be some sort of occupational hazard for reporters."
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"If one were to be a person of value that value could not be a condition subject to hazards of fortune. It had to be a quality that could not change. No matter what."
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"Man himself has become our greatest hazard and our only hope. So that today, St. John the apostle may well be paraphrased: In the end is the Word, and the Word is Man - and the Word is with Men."
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"The duration of a couple's passion is in proportion to the woman's original resistance or to the obstacles that social hazards have placed in the way of her happiness."
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"Don't reward bad behavior. It is one of the first rules of parenting. During the financial cataclysm of 2008, we said it differently. When we bailed out banks that had created their own misfortune, we called it a 'moral hazard,' because the bailout absolved the bank's bad acts and created an incentive for it to make the same bad loans again."
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"Astronauts were not the impulsive daredevils so dear to the stereopticonloving public. They couldn't afford to be. The hazards of the profession required an infinite capacity for cautious, contemplative thought."
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"There are no choices without personal freedom, Buckeroo. It's not us who are dead inside. These things you find so weak and contemptible in us - these are just the hazards of being free."
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"The very condition of Woman is so subject to Hazard, so complex, and so grievous, that to place her at one moment is but to displace her at the next."
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"Fear of an enemy can often blind men to other hazards, not least the shape which they themselves make in the world."
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"We are one with God and He loves us. Now if that isn't a hazard to this country-How're we gonna keep building nuclear weapons?"
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