"If people knew how badly animals were treated in today's factory farms, if people knew how completely confined and immobilized these creatures are for their entire lives, if people knew how severe and unrelenting is the cruelty these animals are forced to endure, there would be change. If people knew. But too many of us choose to look the other way, to keep the veil in place, to remain unconscious and caught in the cultural trance. That way we are more comfortable. That way is convenient. That way we don' t have to risk too much. This is how we keep ourselves asleep."
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"I think we need a politics that allows us to risk what is intelligible. To be maybe slightly unintelligible, too be slightly "illisible". To take the risk of suggesting that the human form might take another form."
"I have a right to be blind sometimes."
"A manager's task is to make the strengths of people effective and their weakness irrelevant - and that applies fully as much to the manager's boss as it applies to the manager's subordinates."
"The bold are helpless without cleverness."
"Doubts are suppressed by groups... But remember that the internal incentives that shape how the group perceives risks and rewards may be very different from the reality of the risks and rewards in the external marketplace. Those incentives can distort risk perception."
"The offer of certainty, the offer of complete security, the offer of an impermeable faith that can’t give way, is an offer of something not worth having. I want to live my life taking the risk all the time that I don’t know anything like enough yet; that I haven’t understood enough; that I can’t know enough; that I’m always hungrily operating on the margins of a potentially great harvest of future knowledge and wisdom. I wouldn’t have it any other way."
"Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them."
"Joy comes to us in moments--ordina ry moments. We risk missing out on joy when we get too busy chasing down the extraordinary."
"What I seek to accomplish is simply to serve with my feeble capacity truth and justice, at the risk of pleasing no one."
"Everything is sweetened by risk."
"No on should pass an American in uniform without saying "Thank you, we are grateful." Always mindful that they are prepared to risk all their dreams so that all of us can reach ours."
""Animals are happy," said the queen. "They run no risk of going to hell." "They are there already," replied Josiana."
"To hope is to risk frustration. Make up your mind to risk frustration."
"Most everybody thinks that if I want to get big rewards I need to take huge risks. But if you keep thinking that, you're gonna be broke."
"Leaders are the ones who have the courage to go first, to put themselves at personal risk to open a path for others to follow."
"Pessimist by policy, optimist by temperament- it is possible to be both. How? By never taking an unnecessary chance and by minimizing the risks you can't avoid. This permits you to play out the game untroubled by the certainty of the outcome."
"I've been saying this for years: There is no longer such a thing as a safe and secure job."
"You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgement of your existence."
"God doesn't promise security from life's storms but security in life's storms. God doesn't always call the equipped, but he will always equip the called. In the long run, avoiding danger is no safer than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold."