"The purely abstract theorist runs the risk that, as with modern decor, the furniture of the mind will be sparse, bare, and uncomfortable."
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"Admittedly, there is a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson in history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement, and this is the specter our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face."
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"For me... it was always about the challenge of making this voyage... It was always a calculated risk, but life is a risk."
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"If God exists, not seeking God must be the gravest error imaginable. If one decides to sincerely seek for God and doesn't find God, the lost effort is negligible in comparison to what is at risk in not seeking God in the first place."
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"There’s something amazing about unbelief – it is able to fulfill its own expectations. Unbelief is safe because it takes no risk and almost always gets what it expects. Then, after a person gets the answer for their unbelief, they can say, I told you so."
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"Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death."
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"To trap one's self-suffering is to risk being devoured from the inside."
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"As Sokrates tells it, your story begins the moment Eros enters you. That incursion is the biggest risk of your life. How you handle it is an index of the quality, wisdom, and decorum of the things inside you. As you handle it you come into contact with what is inside you, in a sudden and startling way. You perceive what you are, what you lack, what you could be."
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"There is only one really safe, mild, harmless beverage and you can drink as much of that as you like without running the slightest risk, and what you say when you want it is, 'Garcon! Un Pernod!'"
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"Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far."
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"When a beginner wins he feels brilliant and invincible Then he takes wild risk and loses everything."
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"There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve."
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"Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing."
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"If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor."
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"We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure, but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world. To make injustice the only measure of our attention is to praise the Devil."
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"Trust means you're ready to risk what you currently have."
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"I think one should do what seems right. And if what seems right involves danger...well, one must risk the danger."
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"Nobody can really guarantee the future. The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them and then make our plans with confidence."
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"No right way is easy in this rough world. We must risk our lives to save them."
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"You need to be uncomfortable and apprehensive: True strategy is about placing bets and making hard choices. The objective is not to eliminate risk but to increase the odds of success."
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