Quotes with highest-risk

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• You have to be aware. Like, I'm not going to do any downhill skiing. It looks like a whole lot of fun, but I'm not going to risk breaking a leg. I want to be dancing the way I'm dancing now for 30 more years.

  ― Bebe Neuwirth
  American actress, singer and dancer (1958 - )
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• You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.

  Source: The Painted Drum (2005)

  ― Louise Erdrich
  American author (1954 - )
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• You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.

  ― An Wang
  Chinese–American computer engineer and inventor (1920 - 1990)
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• You take unacceptable risk, you have to be prepared to face the consequence.

  ― Carly Fiorina
  American businesswoman and political (1954 - )
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• Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.

  ― Novalis
  German poet and writer (ps. van Georg van Hardenberg) (1772 - 1801)
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• How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

  ― Catharine Esther Beecher
  American educator
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• Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.

  ― Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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• Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side ;of the face can smile while the other is pinched.

  ― Thomas Fuller
  English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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• Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

  ― Thomas Alva Edison
  American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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• One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.

  ― Martin Luther King
  American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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• Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.

  ― Albert Schweitzer
  German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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• The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

  ― Simone Weil
  French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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• The highest result of education is tolerance.

  ― Helen Keller
  American writer (1880 - 1968)
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• Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.

  ― Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  French writer (1900 - 1944)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• accomplishments
• christianity
• intellectual
• non-violence
• imprisonment
• possibility

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