"We've greatly exaggerated the risk of sinking, without celebrating the value of swimming."
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"There can be no faith without risk."
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"During the first period of our lives the greatest danger is not to take the risk. When once the risk has been taken, then the greatest danger is to risk too much. By not risking at first one turns aside and serves trivialities; in the second case, by risking too much, one turns aside to the fantastic and perhaps to presumption."
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"The danger, when not too dangerous, fascinate."
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"Men will risk their lives, even die for ribbons."
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"The government-sponsored institution Fannie Mae, when I look at its risks, seems to be sitting on a barrel of dynamite, vulnerable to the slightest hiccup. But not to worry: their large staff of scientists deemed these events "unlikely.""
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"If I had known my own limitations, I never would have taken the risk, and the risk led to one my greatest artistic and personal experiences."
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"You have to take chances - working in film is a mixture of luck, talent, and ability to take the risk. You have to be optimistic. You can't be a pessimistic person."
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"There's no such thing as a sure thing. That's why they call it gambling."
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"All our qualities, whether good or bad, are unstable and ambiguous, and almost all are at the mery of chance."
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"Moderation is like sobriety: you would like to have some more, but are afraid of making yourself ill."
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"Silence is the safest policy if you are unsure of yourself."
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"I think if you go beyond a year - if this continues into the system in the out years, I think there is a risk and that - that we could have a negative reaction in the bond market and that will offset the good that was attempted to be done."
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"So I have no grounds to complain; on the contrary, writers should consider the condition of permanent controversiality to be invigorating, part of the risk envolved in choosing the profesión. It is a fact of life that writers have always and with due consideration and great pleasure spit in the soup of the high and mighty. That is what makes the history of literature analogous to the development and refinement of censorship."
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"A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that's achieved by, if you like, advertising."
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"Always keep your portfolio and your risk at your own individual comfortable sleeping point."
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"What is courage without risk... It wouldn’t really be courage, would it?"
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"[High income tax rates] not only check consumption but discourage investment and encourage...the avoidance of taxes [rather] than the production of goods.[...]Our present tax system...reduces the financial incentives for personal effort, investment, and risk-taking."
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"Our present tax system ... exerts too heavy a drag on growth ... It reduces the financial incentives for personal effort, investment, and risk-taking ... The present tax load ... distorts economic judgments and channels an undue amount of energy into efforts to avoidtaxliabilities."
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"In plucking the fruit of memory one runs the risk of spoiling its bloom, especially if it has got to be carried into the market."
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