"If we can possibly avoid wrecking this little planet of ours, we will, But-there must be risks! There must be. In experimental work there always are!"
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"The first test of ability and intelligence is to find a field of endeavor in which profits are large and risks small."
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"Lifting our cup means sharing our life so we can celebrate it. When we truly believe we are called to lay down our lives for our friends, we must dare to take the risk to let others know what we are living."
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"Term limits would make Congress bolder, more independent, and less risk-averse."
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"There is no threshold level of fine particle pollution below which health risk reductions are not achieved by reduced exposure."
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"As in the past, the costs and risks of the coming phases of the industrial economy were to be socialized, with eventual profits privatized."
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"Resource extraction impacts a global environment that is increasingly at severe risk."
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"I'm afraid to live any place but in expectation. I'm no life-risk."
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"A person who chooses to die or to risk death demonstrates that there are values, principles, maxims, that are more valuable to him than is life itself. In short, he places his immortal self above his mortal self. Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are."
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"If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less in proportion as he is dead-and-alive to begin with. A man sits as many risks as he runs."
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"When you turn your team upside down and try to figure out what the culture of the team is, you take the greatest risk a team can take."
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"The image of the presence, whatever it was, waiting there for him to go -this image had not yet been so concrete for his nerves as when he stopped short of the point at which certainty would have come to him. For, with all his resolution, or more exactly with all his dread, he did stop short - he hung back from really seeing. The risk was too great and his fear too definite: it took at this moment an awful specific form."
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"CEOs are no different than the guy in the mailroom. They all have to learn how to manage better the risk created by our increasingly risk-shifting world."
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"Survival in the demand economy depends on and requires experimentation, risk taking, and trial and error."
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"Some major problems can be solved by our political process and our leaders. Others can be solved only when there is popular demand and insistence and politicians feel at risk of unemployment if they ignore the groundswell."
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"With age, life becomes complex and difficult, often fraught with risk on several levels, from the practical to the fiscal."
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"Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks."
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""We were the pair. One too afraid to feel anything lest she lose control of her ironclad hold on her emotions, and the other so hungry to feel anything that she´d risk her free will for one night of fun."."
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"Just remember, you never know what's possible until you risk finding out."
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"I had always fancied a go at the comedy and when it started to go reasonably well and the opportunity arose for me to move into it full time, I just couldn't turn it down. I just took the risk, and I just wanted to see if it would work and thankfully it did."
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