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I want to climb up the blank blue dome as a man would storm the inside of a circus tent, wildly, dan...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

I've long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk. Whether we're talking about unpas...

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Anthony BourdainKitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

The possibility that terrorist groups could obtain weapons of mass destruction should not be dismiss...

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We must eliminate all nuclear weapons in order to eliminate the grave risk they pose to our world. T...

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The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon b...

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Bell hooksAll About Love: New Visions

In the future, financial firms of any type whose failure would pose a systemic risk must accept espe...

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Given the extent of the exposures of major banks around the world to A.I.G., and in light of the ext...

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Without exposure to potential failure, there is no risk.

Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain.(Translation: It is not certain that everything is unce...

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The ragamuffin gospel says we can't lose, because we have nothing to lose.

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Brennan ManningThe Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappoint...

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The willingness to show up changes us, It makes us a little braver each time.

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Brené BrownDaring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live

Marriage is a risk; I think it's a great and glorious risk, as long as you embark on the adventure i...

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You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away.

Some have won a wild delight,By daring wilder sorrow;Could I gain thy love to-night,I'd hazard death...

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An afternoon drive from Los Angeles will take you up into the high mountains, where eagles circle ab...

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The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.

If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.

But I dare not think too far into the future on the risk that I'll miss the present.

They say ol’ man Beach is crazy. And maybe he is. But he goes ahead anyways. He’s the sort of man wh...

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Colum McCannThis Side of Brightness

I'd never really believed in terrorists before--I mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terro...

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If we take a risk, we might not succeed, but if we avoid all risk, we guarantee we won't succeed, an...

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Craig GroeschelDare to Drop the Pose: Ten Things Christians Think but Are Afraid to Say

If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure.

Courage is willingness to take the risk once you know the odds. Optimistic overconfidence means you ...

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If I've learnt anything over the last six years it's that the most important thing is the strength o...

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Risks? I have lived with the prospect of assassination for years. What risks? All men die, rich and ...

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David GemmellLion of Macedon

Every expression of desired friendship has potential bite. Every smile reveals the teeth.

Unwillingness to risk failure is always there, but it gets harder when you feel you have more to los...

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It will be very hard. You’ll make a million mistakes, and you’ll pay for them all, one way or anothe...

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I'm fascinated how often and with what whole-heartedness people will risk their lives to perform act...

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Love's easy to learn. It's like taking a risk. You set your mind on it and refuse to be afraid, and ...

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There's never any great risk as long as you have money.

The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.

Today we must begin again. Step by small step, without any more protection than comes from our own b...

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You can't come forward against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and be completely fre...

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There is a thin line between peace of the brave and peace of the hostage... between compromise - eve...

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We must all get our hearts broken sometimes. This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we...

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... desperate times required judicious risk-taking.

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. Th...

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Erica JongFear of Flying

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

It was not my intention - it never was - to invent a character who should speak for me, the author, ...

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A high degree of autonomy is what permits innovation, experimentation and risk taking in a bureaucra...

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Francis FukuyamaPolitical Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy

Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think the...

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They were two lovely choices. One of them meant giving up every chance of a decent life forever...an...

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To save all we must risk all.

Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is ...

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I did not want to put myself on the line, as an Australian playing Britain's greatest comic actor. T...

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Wars are times of intense technological transformation, because societies invest – sometimes with ex...

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George FriedmanThe Next Decade: What the World Will Look Like

Such lifestyle factors such as cigarette smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, little physical act...

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What is this spirit in man that urges him forever to depart from happiness and security, to toil, to...

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H. G. WellsThe First Men in the Moon

Deeds of heroism are wrought here more than those of romance, when, defying torture, and braving dea...

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A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.

If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be l...

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For market discipline to constrain risk effectively, financial institutions must be allowed to fail....

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Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of ...

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So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has brav...

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Going meat-free can make a huge difference. Studies show that vegetarians are, on average, 10 to 20 ...

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There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.

Sirius looked out of the fire at Harry, a crease between his sunken eyes. “You’re less like your fat...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Well, that is what you risk when you fall in love. You risk losing your dignity.

You must go further than I did," Nedra said. "You know that.""Further?""With your life. You must bec...

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Like most people, when I look back, the family house is held in time, or rather it is now outside of...

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There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value.

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Jeanette WintersonWritten on the Body

I wanted to project myself forward to age 80 and say, ‘OK, I’m looking back on my life. I want to mi...

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We can't be in survival mode. We have to be in growth mode.

The death knell for any enterprise is to glorify the past -- no matter how good it was.

I never advise friends to put money in anything,. said Danny. 'It's a no-win situation - if they mak...

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So nevertheless, what I'm saying is that what one is - one's parameters are constantly narrowed by o...

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Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Don't let anything stand in the way o...

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The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capita...

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There is always the risk: something is good and good and good, and then all at once it gets awkward....

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

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.

We would do our theology better if more was at stake in what we said.

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John Piper (artist)John Calvin: And His Passion for the Majesty of God

We would do our theology better if more was at stake in what we said.

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John Piper (artist)John Calvin: And His Passion for the Majesty of God

We would do our theology better if more was at stake in what we said.

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John Piper (theologian)John Calvin: And His Passion for the Majesty of God

We would do our theology better if more was at stake in what we said.

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John Piper (theologian)John Calvin: And His Passion for the Majesty of God

We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the pr...

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One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

It is easy when you are young to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to a...

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In terms of having an experience, seriously contemplating a murder was almost as good as going throu...

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The dreamer is a distinguished operatic artist, and, like all who have elected to follow, not the sa...

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Joseph CampbellThe Hero With a Thousand Faces

Why write, if this too easy activity of pushing a pen across paper is not given a certain bull-fight...

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José Ortega y GassetOn Love: Aspects of a Single Theme

The global economic outlook remains fragile and uncertain. Global economic imbalances persist and we...

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I think I’m getting a notion of how to do this. O.K., a carnival works because people pay to feel am...

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Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others ... Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act...

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I sometimes wonder whether the act of surrender is not one of the greatest of all - the highest. It ...

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Katherine MansfieldKatherine Mansfield Letters And Journals: A Selection

It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressi...

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My whole life, I had thought that my story was, again and again: Once upon a time, there was a boy, ...

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I had risked everything and gained everything, and here I was of the world and in it.

The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.

To take that risk, to offer life and remain alive, open yourself like this and become whole.

Stop looking for the path of least resistance and start running down the path of greatest glory to G...

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Mark DriscollReal Marriage: The Truth About Sex

The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strateg...

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If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses...

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What we did, what every president since Washington has done, was provide a measured, appropriate res...

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Max BrooksWorld War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living r...

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Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, ...

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Knowledge doesn't really form part of human nature. Conflict, combat, the outcome of the combat, and...

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At the risk of sounding pedestrian, I'll be completely honest: the first thing I do in the morning i...

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One has to abandon altogether the search for security, and reach out to the risk of living with both...

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