"There is the risk you cannot afford to take, and there is the risk you cannot afford not to take."
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"Great success always comes at the risk of enormous failure."
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"Sisters: talk to each other, be connected and informed, form women's circles, share your stories, work together, and take risks. Together we are invincible."
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"Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others."
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"Don't risk what is important to you, to get what is not important to you."
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"Blame is a neat little device that you can use whenever you don't want to take responsibility for something in your life. Use it and you will avoid all risks and impede your own growth."
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"Nothing is possible without love ... For love puts one in a mood to risk everything."
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"Risk comes from not knowing what you are doing so wide diversification is only required when investors are ignorant. You only have to do a very few things in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong."
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"Never risk what you have and need for what we don't have and don't need."
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"It's the risk takers that move the human race forward."
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"If you don't try things and take risks, you don't really grow and figure out what you want."
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"There are people who cannot risk loneliness with the experience. They always have to be in a flock and have human contact."
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"Take a chance! All life is a chance"
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"I've been thinking a lot lately about taking chances, and how it's really just about overcoming your fears. Because the truth is, everytime you take a big risk in your life, no matter how it ends up, you're always glad you took it."
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"The greatest risk is the risk of riskless living."
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"One must not love oneself so much, as to avoid getting involved in the risks of life that history demands of us, and those that fend off danger will lose their lives."
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"If you never take risks, you'll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived."
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"If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good."
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"Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful."
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"There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal."
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