"The biggest risk a person can take is to do nothing."
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"Instead, to be financially free, we need to learn how to make mistakes and manage risk."
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"Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable."
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"Those who seek the truth run the risk of finding it."
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"When I wrote 'Before The Dawn,' I made it quite clear that there are lots of people involved in my life who I can't talk about simply because I'd put them at risk."
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"Make sure you have an edge. Know what your edge is. And have rigid risk control rules."
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"We develop our beautiful planet in such a way that we brush aside the species... we risk creating a wasteland, where our aspirations will ultimately wither and die"
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"Many pleasant things are better when they belong to someone else. When things belong to others, we enjoy them twice as much, without the risk of losing them, and with the pleasure of novelty."
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"Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost; psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths; it strips us of our impurities, of all that made us curious about ourselves."
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"A risk-free life is far from being a healthy life."
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"True, nuts are high in fat, but most of them contain monounsaturated fat that is good for the heart. In fact, eaten in moderation, nuts can lower your risk of heart disease and heart attack."
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"No crime is so great as daring to excel."
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"We must always take risks. That is our destiny."
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"The explorers seek happiness in finding curiosities, discovering new lands and undergoing risks in adventures. They are thrilling. But where is pleasure found? Only within. Pleasure is not to be sought in the external world."
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"Criticism is easier to take when you realize that the only people who aren’t criticized are those who don’t take risks."
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"Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us."
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"I would risk violence a thousand times rather than risk the emasculation of the whole race."
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"This is the central illusion in life: that randomness is a risk, that it is a bad thing."
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"A writer has to take all the risks of putting down what he sees. No one can tell him about that. No one can control that reality. It reminds me of something Pablo Picasso was supposed to have said to Gertrude Stein while he was painting her portrait. Gertrude said, “I don’t look like that.” And Picasso replied, “You will.” And he was right."
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"Mastery is a journey, and that the master must have the courage to risk failure."
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