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To be alive at all involves some risk.

Of course people are afraid. But honestly facing that fear seeing it for what it is is the only wa...

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Liberty is always dangerous but it is the safest thing we have.

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

However well organized the foundations of life may be life must always be full of risks.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often ...

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Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature.

Victories that are cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fig...

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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

Something must be left to chance nothing is sure in a sea fight beyond all others.

What one has not experienced one will never understand in print.

Nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and co...

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There is no memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.

Lest those islands still seem to you too remote in space and time to be relevant to our modern socie...

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a m...

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There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable ...

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I always had this idea that you should never give up a happy middle in the hopes of a happy ending, ...

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John Green (author)Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

For of all sad words of tongues or pen the saddest are these: It might have been.

Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great i...

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A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.

Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it.

Between two evils I always picked the one I never tried before.

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

Women must think strategically about creating ongoing pressure for change.

Issues relating to global health and sustainability must stay high on the agenda if we are to cope w...

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We can only do what is possible for us to do. But still it is good to know what the impossible is.

The greater the obstacle the more glory in overcoming it.

Are we still a country that takes risks, that innovates, that believes anything is possible? Or are ...

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He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

There's no such thing as a sure thing. That's why they call it gambling.

If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.

If you're going to lead a space frontier, it has to be government; it'll never be private enterprise...

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Private enterprise can never lead a space frontier. It's not possible because a space frontier is ex...

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One never finds anything perfectly pure and ... exempt from danger.

We love because it is the only true adventure.

The global financial crisis - missed by most analysts - shows that most forecasters are poor at pric...

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Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each...

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The more democratic and open a society is, the more it's exposed to terrorism. The more a country is...

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The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and...

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Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and...

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Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and...

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Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and...

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He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole...

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You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpect...

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Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

Fortunate are those who take the first steps.

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Paulo CoelhoBy the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be disappointed ...

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Paulo CoelhoBy the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

You shouldn't have asked," I said. "Love doesn't ask many questions, because if we stop to think we ...

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Paulo CoelhoBy the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Life doesn´t come with any guarantees. You have to risk it to get the biscuit." - The Alchemist, Pau...

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To conquer without risk is to triumph without glory.

We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem they are...

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If, having endured much, we have at last asserted out "right to know," and if by knowing, we have co...

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As soon as there is life there is danger.

We may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life we are guarding so anxiously all the advent...

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Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

That's the good part of dying; when you've nothing to lose, you run any risk you want.

He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea.

He that would have fruit must climb the tree.

Prudence keeps life safe but does not often make it happy.

It was so risky and so scary, and yet at the same time, so beautiful. Maybe the truth was, it should...

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There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent creative personality fo...

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Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be ...

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There could be no honor in a sure success but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks.

He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea.

He that would have fruit must climb the tree.

He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea.

He that would have fruit must climb the tree.

He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea.

He that would have fruit must climb the tree.

He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea.

He that would have fruit must climb the tree.

He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea.

He that would have fruit must climb the tree.

He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea.

He that would have fruit must climb the tree.

He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea.

He that would have fruit must climb the tree.

The harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheaply we esteem too li...

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In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to p...

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They are surely to be esteemed the bravest spirits who having the clearest sense of both the pains ...

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I can't imagine it's easy to like someone, hate them, and then lose them before any of those feeling...

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Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.

I prefer to be alive, so I'm cautious about taking risks.

It is only by risking ... that we live at all.

Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, ...

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Everything is sweetened by risk.

It is the business of the future to be dangerous.

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

I postpone death by living by suffering by error by risking by giving by losing.

If man is not ready to risk his life where is his dignity?

Few are they who have never had a chance to achieve happiness-and fewer those who have taken that ch...

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I was profoundly moved to be the first United Nations Secretary-General to attend the Peace Memorial...

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When you make a commitment to a relationship you invest your attention and energy in it more profou...

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Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.