Risk Quotes
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Many people would rather be certain of their worries and fears, than risk the uncertainty of hope and optimism.
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Smug respectability, like the poor, we've had with us always. Today, however, ... such obtuseness is an indulgence we can no longer afford. The computer, nuclear energy for better or worse, and sudden, simultaneous influences upon everyone's TV screen have raised the ante and the risk considerably.
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One of my experiences around feminist risk and change is that it's difficult, if not impossible, to put new wine into old wineskins.
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The risk pertinent to a particular attempt (and to its evaluation as an attempt of its sort) is the risk that the agent will fail to attain the end constitutive of that attempt. This risk of failure is coordinate with how likely or unlikely it may be that the agent will then succeed.
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You have to take chances - working in film is a mixture of luck, talent, and ability to take the risk. You have to be optimistic. You can't be a pessimistic person.
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Somewhere between 50 to 60 percent of the food you eat has been touched by immigrant hands, and it is fair to say some of them are not here as they should be here. But if you didn't have these folks, you would be spending a lot more - three, four or five times more - for food, or we would have to import food and have all the food security risks.
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Take the risk that you’ll end up regretting your speech, because it’s better than regretting your silence.
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There is no need for faith where there is no consciousness of an element of risk.
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Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
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There's the risk of being loved...and that would keep me from being happy.
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To walk across the street is a risk.
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If there were 10,000 U.S. forces ashore [in Lebanon], authorized to move about, there would be less risk to American lives than there is with an immobile force of 1,300.
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Awkwardness is when there's a risk of a perception gap between what you mean and what you appear to mean.
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The greatest risk is the risk of riskless living.
