"The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death."
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"Life must be lived with courage, with climbing and risks, else there is no happiness, no hope, no true success, no future."
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"Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Risk being seen in all of your glory."
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"The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital from static to more dynamic situations, the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth of the economy."
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"Gandhi was inevitable. If humanity is to progress, Gandhi is inescapable. He lived, thought and acted, inspired by the vision of humanity evolving toward a world of peace and harmony. We may ignore Gandhi at our own risk."
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"If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself."
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"The Moulin Rouge is, like the West Village and the Nasdaq, one of those places that people who don't like to take risks come to for the thrill of being on the spot where risks once were taken."
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"Many say our world is at a tipping point. If we do not act together, if we do not act responsibly, if we do not act now, we risk slipping into a cycle of poverty, degradation, and despair."
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"The world only gets better because people risk something to make it better. Thanks Egyptians"
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"You are protected. But if you don't take risks, God will retreat and become only a subject of philosophical speculation."
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"You had to take risks, follow some paths and abandon others."
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"It's always necessary to know when a stage of one's life has ended. If you stubbornly cling to it after the need has passed, you lose the joy and meaning of the rest. And you risk being shaken to your senses by God."
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"Tomorrow always arrives. It is always different. And even the mightiest company is in trouble if it has not worked on the future. Being surprised by what happens is a risk that even the largest and richest company cannot afford, and even the smallest business need not run."
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"The risk of failure is part of the fun of what I do."
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"Why is the Keystone Pipeline the very first, #1 item on the Republicans' agenda? We know that this pipeline runs terrible environmental risks and it just won't do much for the American people. So why is this bill so urgent? Money and power."
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"There is no risk factor at all, the odds don't matter at all, because the odds of Law of Attraction are 100%."
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"I have to accept risk as a racing driver."
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"In such doubtful matters, where you have to work as a pioneer, you must be able to put some trust in your intuition and follow your feeling even at the risk of going wrong."
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"It's very important for people to know themselves and understand what their value system is, because if you don't know what your value system is, then you don't know what risks are worth taking and which ones are worth avoiding."
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"Don't 'take care', take a risk!"
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