Quotes with risk-taking

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  • Fjodor M. Dostojewski Taking a new step... is what people fear most.
    Fjodor M. Dostojewski
    Russisch writer (1821 - 1881)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Bob Barr Taking privacy cues from the federal government is - to say the least - ironic, considering today's Orwellian level of surveillance. At virtually any given time outside of one's own home, an American citizen can reasonably assume his movements and actions are being monitored by something, by somebody, somewhere.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Benjamin Tucker Taking this view of the matter, the Anarchists contend that defence is not an essential of the State, but that aggression is.
    Address to Unitarian Ministers
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Art Buchwald Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed before.
    Art Buchwald
    American humorist (1925 - 2007)
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  • Billie Jean King Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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  • Lisa Alther That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.
    Lisa Alther
    American author and novelist (1944 - )
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  • Beth Henley That's what I like about [smoking]... taking a drag off of death, Mmm! Gives me a sense of controlling my own destiny. What power! What exhilaration! Want a drag?
    Beth Henley
    American playwright, screenwriter, and actress (1952 - )
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  • Bill Dedman The Adversity Index was created by msnbc.com and Moody's Analytics to track the economic fortunes of states and metro areas. Each month, the Adversity Index uses government data on employment, industrial production, housing starts and home prices to label each area as expanding, at risk of recession, in recession or recovering.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Butch Trucks The Allman Brothers 1969 to 1971... were all about... jumping off the cliff... Just taking music and being adventurous with it.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Dave Thomas The anger that appears to be building up between the sexes becomes more virulent with every day that passes. And far from women taking the blame... the fact is that men are invariably portrayed as the bad guys. Being a good man is like being a good Nazi.
    Dave Thomas
    American businessman and philanthropist (1917 - 1991)
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  • Adolf Hitler The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.
    Adolf Hitler
    German politician (1889 - 1945)
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  • Edgar W. Howe The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.
    Edgar W. Howe
    American journalist and writer (1853 - 1937)
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  • Ernst Fischer The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster.
    Ernst Fischer
    Austrian journalist, writer and politician (1899 - 1972)
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  • Joseph Conrad The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Anais Nin The day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Edmund Burke The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Albert Einstein The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Billy Campbell The first trip I remember taking was on the train from Virginia up to New York City, watching the summertime countryside rolling past the window. They used white linen tablecloths in the dining car in those days, and real silver. I love trains to this day. Maybe that was the beginning of my fixation with leisurely modes of travel.
    Billy Campbell
    American film and television actor (1959 - )
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  • Bee Wilson The group who really could benefit from more protein is not fit young gym-goers but older people, who seem to be at much greater risk of protein deficiency.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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