Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The irony is that it was tougher to rent a car from Cerberus when it owned Alamo than to buy a semi-automatic. To rent a car, one had to provide ID, a drivers' license, and get insurance coverage. To buy a gun? Cash and carry, from the back of a station wagon at a gun show. No concerns about downstream liability or risk.
Eliot Spitzer
CarGunInsuranceBackRiskRent
Only a few act - the rest of us reap the benefits of their risk.
Wynton Marsalis
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The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
Maimonides
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Although even light exercise is associated with a lowered risk of some other types of cancer, for breast cancer, it appears that leisurely strolls don't appear to cut it.
Michael Greger
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Ho Chi Minh and Vietnam were perfect for Lyndon Johnson: 220 million against 18 million, water buffalo and all. No risk, really.
David Douglas Duncan
WaterPerfectRiskBuffaloVietnam
For us as a firm, not only from a risk mitigation standpoint but also as a point of differentiation, it is incredibly important to get consistency and the very best individuals with the capabilities to do the very best job.
Punit Renjen
BestJobConsistencyImportantRisk
The Church became both more accessible and less imposing. It threw itself open to risk.
Lance Morrow
ChurchRiskMoreOpenLessBoth
And one of the things we did here was we put the maximum amount of money up front in those cities that were at the greater risk, but that doesn't mean that we keep rebuilding the same security over and over again.
Michael Chertoff
MoneySecurityRiskMeanSameOver
I'm in favour of a sensible development of response units and their deployment in any circumstance where there may be a risk to the officers themselves or the neighbourhood they're in. I'm not in favour of a blanket arming of the police.
David Blunkett
PoliceDevelopmentRiskBlanketMay
If women don't participate in tech, with its massive prominence in our lives and society, we risk losing many of the economic, political, and social gains we have made over decades.
Susan Wojcicki
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Going meat-free can make a huge difference. Studies show that vegetarians are, on average, 10 to 20 pounds lighter than meat-eaters and that a vegetarian diet reduces our risk of heart disease by 40 percent and adds seven or more years to our lifespan.
Ingrid Newkirk
HeartDietRiskMoreHeart Disease
We see ourselves as being people who want to take India to the world; we see ourselves as being aggressive, assuming risk.
Anand Mahindra
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I free-form it, rock n' roll it. I'm a creature of risk, so I don't know how I'm going to explore a Beethoven symphony until I'm doing it.
Charles Hazlewood
DoingKnowRockRiskExploreGoing
Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.
Paul Tillich
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Dietary fiber provides a whole slew of health benefits when consumed in adequate amounts. It not only promotes 'regularity,' it also reduces your risk of several chronic diseases and plays a crucial role in successful weight loss.
Harley Pasternak
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In life you need to take a risk.
Stefano Gabbana
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I'm an artist, and I like the risk - I'm not in it for the sure things.
CeeLo Green
ArtistRiskThingsSureLike
Often you need to take some risk, but it must be a realistic risk, you can't take a crazy risk.
Sergei Bubka
CrazyYouRiskNeedRealisticTake
I wasn't popular in the home office because I wasn't chicken. I'm just a risk taker. I have gut instincts.
Gary Gygax
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The major challenge facing most foundations is that they are risk averse. This inhibits their ability to experiment and commit to the experimentation and innovation process.
Steven Levitt
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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
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I have a perverse attraction to risk. Not physical risk but emotional, financial risk - anything than can't kill you immediately.
Scott Adams
FinancialYouRiskAnythingThan
Everything you do in a patient's room, after he is 'put up' for the night, increases tenfold the risk of his having a bad night. But, if you rouse him up after he has fallen asleep, you do not risk - you secure him a bad night.
Florence Nightingale
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