Quotes with highest-risk

Quotes 141 till 160 of 354.

  • Sheldon Kopp In the long run, we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.
    Sheldon Kopp
    American psychotherapist and author (1929 - 1999)
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  • Winston Churchill It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Thomas Carlyle It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Thorstein Veblen It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community.
    Thorstein Veblen
    Norwegian-American economist and sociologist (1857 - 1929)
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  • Alan Cohen It is not selfish to be happy. It is your highest purpose. Your joy is the greatest contribution you can make to life on the planet. A heart at peace with its owner blesses everyone it touches.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Bob Ney It is outrageous to know that security procedures are apparently so lax at the Department of Veterans Affairs that a single bureaucrat had the ability to put the personal information of over 26 million Veterans at risk for sale to the highest criminal bidder.
    Bob Ney
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Plutarch It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • George Bernard Shaw It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • William Somerset Maugham It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Anais Nin It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Carl Sagan It took the Church until 1832 to remove Galileo's work from its list of books which Catholics were forbidden to read at the risk of dire punishment of their immortal souls.
    Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Bernhard von Bulow It was both necessary and desirable for us to be so strong at sea that no Sea Power could attack us without risk, so that we might be free to protect our oversea interests, independently of the influence and the choice of other Sea Powers.
    Bernhard von Bulow
    German diplomat and politician (1849 - 1929)
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  • Bill James It's easy for people to grow up in our society believing that certain lifestyles are risk free when they certainly are not.
    Bill James
    American baseball writer, historian, and statistician (1949 - )
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  • Brande Roderick It's important not to lose sight of the fact people of all sorts are still putting themselves at risk. It happens to straight and gay, single and married. I have never been comfortable thinking of AIDS as something that 'other people' get.
    Brande Roderick
    American model and actress (1974 - )
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  • Candice Bergen It's not just in Hollywood that women run the risk of being passed by once they reach 50. It happens in real life, too.
    Candice Bergen
    American actress (1946 - )
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  • Baba Kalyani It's the adventure, the adrenaline-flowing, risk-taking in outdoor activities that attracts me.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • Sean O'Casey Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, great as each may be, their highest comfort given to the sorrowful is a cordial introduction into another's woe. Sorrow's the great community in which all men born of woman are members at one time or another.
    Sean O'Casey
    Irish Dramatist (1880 - 1964)
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  • Margaret Sackville Laughter is ever young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard.
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  • Lord Acton Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
    Lord Acton
    British historian (1834 - 1902)
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  • Denis Waitley Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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