"Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it."

Feather, William on risk   

"The bold are helpless without cleverness."

Euripides on risk   

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go."

Eliot, T. S. on risk
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"It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all."

James, William on risk
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"The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."

Jong, Erica on risk
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"Security is mostly a superstition. It 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 outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing."

Keller, Helen on risk
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"We must risk going too far to discover just how far we can go."

Rohn, Jim on risk
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"If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary."

Rohn, Jim on risk
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"There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns."

Pilpay on risk
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"?How does one become a butterfly? she asked pensively. You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar."

Paulus, Trina on risk
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"Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love."

Ovid on risk
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"People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives."

Lippmann, Walter on risk
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"It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late."

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats on risk
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"The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office."

Rogers, Will on memory
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"Pain is such an uncomfortable feeling that even a tiny amount of it is enough to ruin every enjoyment."

Rogers, Will on pain
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"Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke."

Rogers, Will on change   

"One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next."

Rogers, Will on evolution   

"No man is free who is not a master of himself."

Epictetus on freedom
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"The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it."

Rogers, Will on politics   

"The Income Tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has."

Rogers, Will on taxes and taxation   

"It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts."

Rogers, Will on worth   

"When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging"

Rogers, Will on
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"The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him."

Hardy, Thomas on heaven   

"Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches."

Rogers, Will on liberty
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"So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip."

Rogers, Will on gossip
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"Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak."

Epictetus on listening
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"Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on courage
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"Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come."

Hugo, Victor on ideas
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"The nation is prosperous on the whole, but how much prosperity is there in a hole?"

Rogers, Will on debt   

"There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

Rogers, Will on experts
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"A man can learn only two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people."

Rogers, Will on learning
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"An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else s."

Rogers, Will on economy and economics   

"The Republicans have their splits right after election and Democrats have theirs just before an election."

Rogers, Will on elections   

"There isn't any finer folks living than a Republican that votes the Democratic ticket."

Rogers, Will on elections   

"America is a great country, but you can't live in it for nothing."

Rogers, Will on america
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"It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs."

Hardy, Thomas on language
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"Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change."

Hardy, Thomas on surprises
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"Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment."

Fuller, R. Buckminster on nature   

"Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices."

Fuller, R. Buckminster on leadership
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"Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind."

Fuller, R. Buckminster on growth
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