Risk Quotes
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The sustaining of life, in a bodily sense as well as in the sense of psychological health, is inherently subject to risk.
Anthony Giddens
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Though most of us don't hunt, our eyes are still the great monopolists of our senses. To taste or touch your enemy or your food, you have to be unnervingly close to it. To smell or hear it, you can risk being further off. But vision can rush through the fields and up the mountains, travel across time, country, and parsecs of outer space, and collect bushel baskets of information as it goes. Animals that hear high frequencies better than we do
Diane Ackerman
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As smart technologies become more intrusive, they risk undermining our autonomy by suppressing behaviors that someone somewhere has deemed undesirable.
Evgeny Morozov
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Let's face it, making movies is all risk. Most of the time, batting average-wise, the reward does not outweigh the risk.
John Slattery
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The technical explanation is that the market-sensitive risk models used by thousands of market participants work on the assumption that each user is the only person using them.
Avinash Persaud
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... stress hormones are meant to give us the strength and endurance to respond to extraordinary conditions. People who actively do something to deal with a disaster - rescuing loved ones or strangers, transporting people to a hospital, being a part of a medical team, pitching tents or cooking meals - utilize their stress hormones for their proper purpose and therefore are at much lower risk of becoming traumatized.
Bessel van der Kolk
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Weigh risk carefully, and once you decide a risk is manageable and necessary in the pursuit of your dreams, take it.
Adrian Ballinger
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I think flood risk should be decreasing tomorrow, especially on Oahu. Other than urban small-stream flood advisories, I don't think we will have any warnings.
Bob Farrell
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I think the most important thing to understand about credit derivatives and their use at JPMorgan is they served a number of different purposes. First and foremost, they were a tool which initially was seen as being useful in managing the bank's own risk management challenges.
Blythe Masters
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If you get thrown out, it looks bad, ... But I took the risk, and it worked out.
Brad Wilkerson
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All soldiers who serve their country and put their lives at risk need to know that if something happens to them, their families will be well taken care of. That's the bond we have with our military men and women and their families.
Jeff Sessions
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The most obvious risk was that the Russian speaking population was threatened and that the threats were absolutely specific and tangible. This is what made Crimean residents, the people who live there, think about their future and ask Russia for help. This is what guided our decision.
Vladimir Putin
