"Is it not better to fail after asking advice than to risk acting on our own?"
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"I thank God for having given the Company subjects who belong more to Him than to themselves, and who serve the neighbor at the risk of their lives! They are like unrefined gold, which becomes visible in fire and which would otherwise remain hidden under ordinary actions and sometimes under faults and failings."
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"If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman."
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"Every chance at destabilizing [Bashar] Assad... the bombing campaign causes a flood of refugees into Jordan, there's already half a million in Jordan. I think a bombing campaign - I think it's hard to argue that a U.S. bombing campaign is going to cause less refugees. And I think it causes more refugees and more of a humanitarian disaster. I think it causes, or allows, the risk of Israel being attacked with a gas attack to go up, if we attack Assad. So there's all kinds of bad things."
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"The Obama administration's plan is to have the Federal Reserve regulate banks that might pose a 'systemic risk' if they were to fail."
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"If I had to pick one quality that best predicts success (other than wanting to be successful) it would be the willingness to risk embarrassment."
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"I have a perverse attraction to risk. Not physical risk but emotional, financial risk - anything than can't kill you immediately."
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"By definition, risk-takers often fail. So do morons. In practice it's difficult to sort them out."
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"We do, then, most solemnly before God and the world declare that regardless of every consequence, at the risk of every distress, the arms we have been compelled to assume we will use with perseverance, exerting to their utmost energies all those powers which our Creator hath given us to preserve that liberty which he committed to us in sacred deposit and to protect from every hostile hand our lives and our properties."
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"I stand among you as one who offers a small message of hope. . . there are always people who dare to seek on the margin of society, who are not dependent on social acceptance, not dependent on social routine, and prefer a kind of free-floating existence under a state of risk."
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"I needed some real danger and some mortal risk to run, to tranquilize me."
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"I am a firm believer in the mission of the health centers, which offer cost-effective comprehensive primary and preventive services to at-risk people."
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"If you think we are going to gain ground by holding the American people hostage, saying that their taxes are at risk, I actually disagree."
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"We need to care enough to connect, to put ourselves at emotional risk and play one note worth hearing."
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"I might be manipulating you to create risk for myself."
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"Risk deters those who see what they could lose. Those focused on the gain see it as a necessary part of their journey, even if the possibility of loss exists."
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"To operate based on conviction and belief requires an acceptance that your actions could get you fired. This is different from pig-headed bravado, and it is different from putting the company at risk."
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"Now I understand all those chick flicks I made fun of. 'Cause now I'm the sappy dork willing to risk it all for the girl. Estoy enamorado...I'm in love."
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"It's true that this is one of the problems which often arises among my radical, revolutionary feminist friends: Do you have to join the system or not? On the one hand, if you don't, you risk being ineffectual. But if you do, from that moment on, you place your feminism at the service of a system which you want to take apart."
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"The people I want to hear about are the people who take risks."
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