Evan Esar Quotes
The man who doctors himself with the aid of medical books, runs the risk of dying of a typographical error.Evan Esar
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Oscar Wilde -
Risk is the sort of word that is easy to discuss upfront but tough to handle when it comes time to pay the piper. There will always be some who wimp out and second-guess when the pain hits, but that is a childish reaction.
Nathan Myhrvold -
I just like to keep my money in the bank; I'm not a big risk-taker. I don't know anything about the stock market... I stay away from things I don't know anything about.
Wayne Gretzky -
What strategic benefit would accrue from having Montenegro as an ally that would justify the risk of our having to go to war should some neighbor breach Montenegro's borders?
Pat Buchanan -
My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.
Carl Hiaasen -
May books spread the world over!
Yann Martel
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My favourite author as a child and teenager, and who I still re-read now, is K. M. Peyton. She writes very truthfully; sometimes I'm not sure if I've actually done things or just experienced them in her books.
Sadie Jones -
Money, while clearly helpful in solving myriad problems, can often conceal a business's real flaws. It can also risk rigidifying a company's business model at the very moment it should be in 'customer discovery' mode or iterating around market opportunities.
Maelle Gavet -
It's the adventure, the adrenaline-flowing, risk-taking in outdoor activities that attracts me.
Baba Kalyani -
I think the potential for the program at the risk of sounding self-serving is large, some would say even limitless, so I'm excited about it and I think it can even pass next year.
Harold Ford, Jr. -
My books are based 98 percent on documentary evidence.
Irving Stone -
I do not carry such information in my mind since it is readily available in books. ...The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.
Albert Einstein
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After I finished 'The Darkest Minds' series, I knew I wanted to take a risk and work on something completely different - lighter in tone, with a little bit more romance, and a completely different set of characters - that would also, um, finally justify my liberal arts degree.
Alexandra Bracken -
Their films would probably be better if they'd seen a few more films, which runs counter to this idiotic theory that you run the risk of being influenced if you see too much.
Jacques Rivette -
This country must break the cycle of childhood obesity. Unless we reverse course, this epidemic will continue to put more of our children and the future of our nation at risk.
Marcia Fudge -
If you don't tolerate any risk, you can never innovate.
Jennifer Pahlka -
You don't break ground by doing the same thing over and over and over. That's like standing in place. You have to risk to gain it all.
Corey Taylor Stone Sour -
I always recommend, if you can, to patent or protect whatever your idea is. If you can't, you have to make your best judgment. Sometimes people don't get anywhere because they sit on something, so afraid to reveal it. And yet, in the reverse, sometimes if you expose something too widely, you can risk losing it.
Lori Greiner
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There's only one way to gain mountain sense, and that's to be in the mountains a lot. Unfortunately, when you're a young climber, you have none. You're out there, and your risk level is high.
Alex Lowe -
The biggest risk to Quebec isn't sovereignty. It is staying in Canada.
Pauline Marois -
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
Edgar Allan Poe -
Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
George Washington -
I think every album you have, especially if it's done well, you feel like you're competing with yourself.
Alan Jackson -
The man who doctors himself with the aid of medical books, runs the risk of dying of a typographical error.
Evan Esar