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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anais Nin

Painful, Took, Remain

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

Death, Fear, Someone

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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T. S. Eliot

Find, Far, Possibly

The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.
John F. Kennedy

Strength, Decisions, Growth

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
Winston Churchill

Against, Read, Defends

The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.
Winston Churchill

Against, Read, Defends

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

Willing, Ordinary, Settle

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.
George Bernard Shaw

Learning, Dangerous, Hold

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
Warren Buffett

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.
Theodore Roosevelt

Life, Great, Worth

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?
Jim Carrey

Dreams, Death, Give

A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.
Lorraine Hansberry

Men, Loneliness, Woman

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
e. e. cummings

Experience, Human, Once

The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward.
Elbert Hubbard

Done, Knows, Reward

After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.
Albert Camus

Nothing, Him, After

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
Voltaire

Guilty, Innocent, Saving

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
Ernest Hemingway

Age, Equal, Hesitation

I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
Audre Lorde

Important, Made, Again

Business and growing jobs is about taking risk, sometimes failing, sometimes succeeding, but always striving. It is about dreams. Usually, it doesn't work out exactly as you might have imagined. Steve Jobs was fired at Apple. He came back and changed the world.
Mitt Romney

Dreams, Work, Business

I'm not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.
Paulo Coelho

Life, Love, Saying

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury

Down, Living, Off

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.
Voltaire

Natural, Tongue, Peril

My decision to end my marriage was such a risk to lose ratings and lose my fan base. I had to take that risk for my inner peace and to be happy with myself.
Kim Kardashian

Marriage, Peace, Happy

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.
Martin Luther

Life, Faith, Cannot

If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how would you live? Knowing nothing 'real' was at risk, what would you do? You'd live a gigantic, bold, fun, dazzling life. You know you would. That's what the ghosts want us to do - all the exciting things they no longer can.
Chuck Palahniuk

Life, Fun, Live

Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense.
Ron Paul

Death, Live, Liberty

You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.
Rosalynn Carter

Best, Failure, Win

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.
Chuck Palahniuk

Happiness, True, Find

Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.
Warren Buffett

During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
Soren Kierkegaard

Life, Greatest, Danger

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