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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."
"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."
"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."
"Fear of an enemy can often blind men to other hazards, not least the shape which they themselves make in the world."
"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?"
"I permit to speak at every hazard, Nature without check with original energy"
"Sometimes the critics will like a film, and the public doesn't come. Sometimes the critics won't like the film, and the public will come. It's completely spontaneous. It's a hazard."
"An author places himself uncalled before the tribunal of criticism and solicits fame at the hazard of disgrace."
"In this world that God (or Mother Nature) created, it is always hazard and novelty-hazard and novelty-which assert themselves, thereby rendering notions of fixity absurd. Incongruously enough, however, when we allow ourselves to fully accept uncertainty, to embrace and cultivate it even, then we actually can begin to feel within ourselves the presence of an Absolute. The person who cannot welcome ambiguity cannot welcome God."
"I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous, and independent denizens."
"Those with health insurance are overinsured and their behavior is distorted by moral hazard. Those without health insurance use their own money to make decisions based on an assessment of their needs. The insured are wasteful. The uninsured are prudent. So what's the solution? Make the insured a little more like the uninsured."
"A positive engagement to marry a certain person at a certain time, at all haps and hazards, I have always considered the most ridiculous thing on earth."
"My occupational hazard is my occupation's just not around."
"Man has become our greatest hazard, and our only hope."
