"I think the risks that people see of terrorism are incredibly important but we are very confident we have got the right people on it and the risks have been minimised."
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"Lawyers can't tell you you can't do something. They can warn you about risks, and in extreme cases tell you that something is such a bad idea you'll need to get someone other than them to do it but the judgment call of whether the risk is worth it is the entrepreneur's."
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"No worthwhile life can be lived without risks, despite current American superstitions to the contrary."
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"Without risk in our lives, we're scarcely better than machines ourselves."
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"Companies are increasingly taking responsibility for the safety of the food they sell, rather than risk their brand on a large recall."
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"Not taboo - it's just that straight actors still risk their careers commercially and economically. They have to please the crowd - they're movie stars; their image is their industry. It goes beyond acting."
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"Toni Morrison said, "The function of freedom is to free someone else," and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person or a way of life, tell your story. Risk freeing someone else. Not everyone will be glad that you did. Members of your family and other critics may wish you had kept your secrets. Oh, well, what are you going to do?"
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"You risk tears if you let yourself be tamed."
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"I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed."
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"No British Government ever will and ever can risk the bones of a British grenadier."
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"Was it hardness, was it selfishness, that she should ask me to risk my life for her own glorification? Such thoughts may come to middle age; but never to ardent three-and-twenty in the fever of his first love."
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"Having a partner definitely allows you to take more risks."
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"At Berkshire, I both initiate and monitor every derivatives contract on our books ... If Berkshire ever gets in trouble, it will be my fault. It will not be because of the misjudgments made by a risk committee or chief risk officer."
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"Instead of asking yourself what everyone else's opinion is going to be and how your action will be perceived by others, ask yourself, 'How do I want my life to be lived?' Then proceed to take a small risk in the direction of that new action."
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"So may I, blind fortune leading me, Miss that which one unworthier may attain, And die with grieving."
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"Victory is only wrested by running risks."
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"Carrying on as usual carries enormous risks, condemning today's students to a world of constant insecurity and frequent catastrophes."
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"I will put honesty before the risk of humiliation."
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"People find it hard to understand how I can risk ruining my career as a musician by injuring myself on the slopes, but I've always been a tomboy."
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"Ignore them. They don't know what it is to make a difficult decision." "You wouldn't have done it, I bet." "That is only because I have been taught to be cautious when I don't know all the information, and you have been taught that risks can produce great rewards."
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