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For both of us, it was pretty easy to see this as a great opportunity to do something different, we were just working in the service industry so it's not like either of us had any full-fledged careers that we were afraid to leave behind or families that we were worried about risking or providing for. – Brian Rogers and Caitlin McGuire	Found on CNN 9 years ago
There are plenty of examples where our police force come forward to save people, risking their own lives. – Mohammad Habibur Rahman	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I don't think anyone will be risking a boycott given the likely consequences. – Vyacheslav Koloskov	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The consequences of a railroad accident with 700 or 1,200 migrants on board would have been very regrettable, we can't be so irresponsible as to allow migrants to continue risking their lives on a freight line that has all the deficiencies it has. – Ardelio Vargas	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Aquino is taking a big gamble and risking whatever is left of political capital. – Earl Parreno	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The art was forbidden in Auschwitz so creating a drawing like that means risking torture, even death, however the art existed here almost from the beginning. – Agnieszka Sieradzka	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Kenya is risking sanctions from international competition because international organisations think we are not addressing the problem in line with world best practice. – Kipchoge Keino	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The government's negligence toward us has created bitterness among the volunteer fighters risking their lives in order to protect the country, we did not receive any salary, while the government is continuing to pay the salaries of the soldiers and the policemen who abandoned their positions without fighting in June. – Hassan Saleh	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. – Erica Jong	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The modern American tourist now fills his experience with pseudo-events. He has come to expect both more strangeness and more familiarity than the world naturally offers. He has come to believe that he can have a lifetime of adventure in two weeks and all the thrills of risking his life without any real risk at all. – Daniel J. Boorstin	added by anonymous 10 years ago
We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life. – John W. Gardner	added by anonymous 10 years ago
...a man may be a patriot without risking his own life or sacrificing his health. There are plenty of lives less valuable. – James Mellon, who paid $300 for a civil war Union army deferment	added by anonymous 13 years ago
It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills. – Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1950)	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You cannot get there by bus, only by hard work, risking and by not quite knowing what you are doing. What you will discover will be wonderful; yourself. – Alan Alda	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. – Lee Iacocca	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Love is everything it's cracked up to beIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. – Erica Jong	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills. – Simone de Beauvoir	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Excellence is the result of caring more than others think is wise risking more than others think is safe dreaming more than others think is practical and expecting more than others think is possible. – Ronnie Max Oldham	added by anonymous 14 years ago

For both of us, it was pretty easy to see this as a great opportunity to do something different, we were just working in the service industry so it's not like either of us had any full-fledged careers that we were afraid to leave behind or families that we were worried about risking or providing for.

– Brian Rogers and Caitlin McGuire

Found on CNN
9 years ago

There are plenty of examples where our police force come forward to save people, risking their own lives.

– Mohammad Habibur Rahman

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I don't think anyone will be risking a boycott given the likely consequences.

– Vyacheslav Koloskov

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The consequences of a railroad accident with 700 or 1,200 migrants on board would have been very regrettable, we can't be so irresponsible as to allow migrants to continue risking their lives on a freight line that has all the deficiencies it has.

– Ardelio Vargas

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Aquino is taking a big gamble and risking whatever is left of political capital.

– Earl Parreno

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The art was forbidden in Auschwitz so creating a drawing like that means risking torture, even death, however the art existed here almost from the beginning.

– Agnieszka Sieradzka

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Kenya is risking sanctions from international competition because international organisations think we are not addressing the problem in line with world best practice.

– Kipchoge Keino

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The government's negligence toward us has created bitterness among the volunteer fighters risking their lives in order to protect the country, we did not receive any salary, while the government is continuing to pay the salaries of the soldiers and the policemen who abandoned their positions without fighting in June.

– Hassan Saleh

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

– Erica Jong

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The modern American tourist now fills his experience with pseudo-events. He has come to expect both more strangeness and more familiarity than the world naturally offers. He has come to believe that he can have a lifetime of adventure in two weeks and all the thrills of risking his life without any real risk at all.

– Daniel J. Boorstin

added by anonymous
10 years ago

We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

– John W. Gardner

added by anonymous
10 years ago

...a man may be a patriot without risking his own life or sacrificing his health. There are plenty of lives less valuable.

– James Mellon, who paid $300 for a civil war Union army deferment

added by anonymous
13 years ago

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.

– Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1950)

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You cannot get there by bus, only by hard work, risking and by not quite knowing what you are doing. What you will discover will be wonderful; yourself.

– Alan Alda

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

– Lee Iacocca

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Love is everything it's cracked up to beIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

– Erica Jong

added by anonymous
14 years ago

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.

– Simone de Beauvoir

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Excellence is the result of caring more than others think is wise risking more than others think is safe dreaming more than others think is practical and expecting more than others think is possible.

– Ronnie Max Oldham

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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