“ During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk. ”
- Soren Kierkegaard- Copy
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“ Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. ”
- Alex Lowe- Copy
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“ Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure. ”
- Helen Keller- Copy
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“ New threats make no distinction between races, nations or regions. A new insecurity has entered every mind, regardless of wealth or status. ”
- Kofi Annan- Copy
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“ Take calculated risks. This is quite different from being rash. ”
- George S. Patton- Copy
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“ There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction. ”
- John F. Kennedy- Copy
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“ To do an evil act is base. To do a good one without incurring danger, is common enough. But it is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds though he risks everything in doing them. ”
- Plutarch- Copy
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“ Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of humans as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is not safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. ”
- Helen Keller- Copy
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“ All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their own peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their own peril. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ Safety first" has been the motto of the human race for half a million years; but it has never been the motto of leaders. A leader must face danger. He must take the risk and the blame, and the brunt of the storm. ”
- Herbert N. Casson- Copy
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“ Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can-and surely will at times-fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk. ”
- Dr. Joyce Brothers- Copy
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“ Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murders. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls. ”
- Victor Hugo- Copy
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“ The animals of the planet are in desperate peril… Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen. ”
- Alice Walker- Copy
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“ When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph. ”
- Pierre Corneille- Copy
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“ A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril. ”
- Sir Winston Churchill- Copy
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“ Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain. ”
- John F. Kennedy- Copy
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“ Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence. ”
- Elihu Burritt- Copy
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“ The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair; and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. ”
- J.R.R. Tolkien- Copy
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“ Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking. ”
- Edward Dahlberg- Copy
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“ As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes- Copy
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“ For I am full of spirit and resolve to meet all perils very constantly. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ For I've been born and I've been wed — all of man's peril comes of bed. ”
- C. H. Webb- Copy
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