Risk Quotes
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Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.
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Keeping the risk management plan up to date can transform it from a door stop into a vital project management tool. Remember: what you don't know can kill your project.
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The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence.
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We are still the America that does the hard things, that does the great things. We're the nation that always dared to dream. We're the nation that dared to take risks.
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To live in the universe of high modernity is to live in an environment of chance and risk, the ineveitable concomitants of a system geared to the domination of nature and the reflexive making of history. Fate and destiny have no formal part to play in such a system, which operates (as a matter of principle) via what I shall call open human control of the natural and social worlds.
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Risk is what separates the artist from the artisan.
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The greatest and most valuable resources we have for making crucial decision are knowledge and the amazing brainpower God gave human beings when he created us. That's certainly true for deciding our best response to any risk we ever face.
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Humanity, in the desperate attempt to fit 8 billion or more people on the planet and give them a higher standard of living, is at risk of pushing the rest of life off the globe.
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I believe it is essential that we close the security gaps that put our nation at risk, and I will continue to fight for the funding that will secure high-risk targets, such as our ports and borders.
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With stealth technology, the U.S. could spy on its Cold War adversaries without running the risk of getting caught.
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There's always a risk when the candidate becomes president: Will he deliver what is expected of him?
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I have been surrounded by some of the smartest, brightest, most caring lawyers, by agents who are willing to risk their lives for others, by support staff that are willing to work as hard as they can.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.
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Traveling anywhere in the world involves some risk. You could always opt to spend your life cowering under your bed.
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Recklessness is almost a man's revenge on his woman. He feels he is not valued so he will risk destroying himself to deprive her altogether.
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The day of the march, we were forbidden to go to the march site. The man I worked for, the Presbyterian minister, knew we would want to be sort of martyrs for the cause and risk arrest. He didn't want any of that going on. So he made us stay in the neighborhood.
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I don't think that Chinese ownership of U.S. assets is so large as to put our country at risk economically.
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If people vote to get rid of this, they're only going to pay more later, ... We are putting ourselves at risk. It is that bad -- otherwise citizen legislators would not have voted for a tax increase. It doesn't help them to vote for a tax increase, but they saw a real danger.
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One misconception is that entrepreneurs love risk. Actually, we all want things to go as we expect. What you need is a blind optimism and a tolerance for uncertainty.
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If you're going to take a risk as a comic, make sure it's surrounded by other things that you're certain are funny.
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Growth requires risk-taking. If you want to dampen risk and make sure you never have a problem, you do so, but that also will have an effect on growth. This is a decision that doesn't necessarily belong to financial institutions. It belongs to regulators and legislators who represent the body politic.
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The risk exists that, with aggregate demand exhibiting considerable momentum, output could overshoot its sustainable path, leading ultimately in the absence of countervailing monetary policy action to further upward pressure on inflation.
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My philosophy, in a nutshell, is to wipe out the greatest amount of risk with the least amount of money.
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To win you have to risk loss.
