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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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Veronica RothFour: A Divergent Story Collection

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.

The idea that the EU is somehow the guarantor of peace on the continent - that is in itself rash, in...

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The pilgrims on the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock. To my knowledge, they didn't wait around for ...

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'Anthony and the Magic Picture Frame' tells it like it really was in America's early space program -...

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Who gets the risks? The risks are given to the consumer, the unsuspecting consumer and the poor work...

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Doves oppose war on the grounds that the risks exceed the gains. War with Iraq could be very costly,...

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The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.

I've always taken risks, and never worried what the world might really think of me.

All life is a chance. So take it! The person who goes furthest is the one who is willing to do and d...

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Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small steps.

You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.

There was never a place for her in the ranks of the terrible slow army of the cautious. She ran ahe...

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Life is either always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.

You've got to keep fighting-you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.

I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened and I'm not afraid to look behind the...

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When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when...

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Ellen DeGeneresSeriously... I'm Kidding

When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when...

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The soul should always stand ajar ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

And the trouble is if you don't risk anything you risk even more.

All serious daring starts from within.

You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.

Entrepreneurs in accepting risk achieve security for all. In embracing change they ensure social ...

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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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