"Life is dangerous and you're not gonna live a life without risk."
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"a fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he's already got. He'll cling to trouble he's used to before he'll risk a change. Yes. A man will talk about how he'd like to escape from living folks. But it's the dead folks that do him the damage. It's the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from."
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"Quality, productivity, and innovation can be significantly increased if companies provide all employees with practical tools for exploiting potential information"
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"If things are ever to move upward, some one must take the first step, and assume the risk of it. No one who is not willing to try charity, to try non-resistance as the saint is always willing, can tell whether these methods will or will not succeed."
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"A lottery is a salutary instrument and a tax... laid on the willing only, that is to say, on those who can risk the price of a ticket without sensible injury, for the possibility of a higher prize."
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"There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you."
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"With every choice you risk the life you would have had; with every decision, you lose it."
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"You can risk being wrong or you can be boring."
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"To Dare is to risk losing your foothold for a moment, Not to Dare is to risk losing yourself."
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"Here it is about gentlemen of fortune. They lives rough, and they risk swinging, but they eat and drink like fighting-cocks, and when a cruise is done, why, it's hundreds of pounds instead of hundreds of farthings in their pockets."
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"If you only take small risks, you are only entitled to a small life."
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"Let it never be said of this generation of Americans that we became so obsessed with failure that we refused to take risks that could further the cause of peace and freedom in the world."
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"The full consequences of a default or even the serious prospect of default by the United States are impossible to predict and awesome to contemplate. Denigration of the full faith and credit of the United States would have substantial effects on the domestic financial markets and on the value of the dollar in exchange markets. The Nation can ill afford to allow such a result. The risks, the cost, the disruptions, and the incalculable damage lead me to but one conclusion: the Senate must pass this legislation before the Congress adjourns."
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"I never go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom."
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"I am proud to be part of a species where a subset of its members willingly put their lives at risk to push the boundaries of our existence."
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"Cinema without risk is like having no sex and expecting to have a baby."
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"Nobody wants to open a business near a Superfund site and risk being sued"
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"One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk."
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"Seventy is old enough. After that there is too much risk."
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"If I was wrong in yielding to persuasion once, remember that it was to persuasion exerted on the side of safety, not of risk. When I yielded, I thought it was to duty; but no duty could be called in aid here. In marrying a man indifferent to me, all risk would have been incurred and all duty violated."
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