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• To be sick and helpless is a humiliating experience. Prolonged illness also carries the hazard of narcissistic self-absorption.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Self, Sick, Narcissistic

  Richard Hofstadter (2011). “The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made it”, p.398, Vintage

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• Taking pleasure in the dark side may be some sort of occupational hazard for reporters.

  Calvin Trillin

  Dark, May, Sides

  Calvin Trillin (1987). “Uncivil liberties”, Penguin Group USA

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• Hazard has conditioned us to live in hazard. All our pleasures are dependent on it. Even though I arrange for a pleasure, and look forward to it, my eventual enjoyment of it is still a matter of hazard. Wherever time passes, there is hazard.

  John Fowles

  Looks, May, Pages

  "The Aristos".

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• Our freedom must be had at all hazards. If the men of property will not help us they must fall; we will free ourselves by the aid of that large and respectable class of the community - the men of no property.

  Wolfe Tone

  Fall, Men, Class

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• I permit to speak at every hazard,
  Nature without check with original energy

  Walt Whitman

  Energy, Speak, Permit

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Leaves of Grass”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

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• ...The asbestos industry...has for decades successfully suppressed and manipulated information on the carcinogenicity and other hazards of asbestos. Involved in this conspiracy network were senior industry executives, their medical staff, attorneys, insurance companies, trade associations, scientific consultants, and commercial labs.

  Samuel Epstein

  Senior, Dark, Age

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• The difficulties and hazards of marriage are greatly increased where backgrounds are different

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Marriage, Different, Difficulty

  Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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• To place your dreams before the crowd is to risk ridicule. To go forward in the face of overwhelming odds is to risk failure. But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard of life is to risk nothing.

  Rene Carayol

  Dream, Taken, Odds

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• Those with health insurance are overinsured and their behavior is distorted by moral hazard. Those without health insurance use their own money to make decisions based on an assessment of their needs. The insured are wasteful. The uninsured are prudent. So what's the solution? Make the insured a little more like the uninsured.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Assessment, Decision, Needs

  "The Moral-Hazard Myth" by Malcolm Gladwell, www.newyorker.com. August 29, 2005.

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• The effort to improve the conditions of man, however, is not a task for the few. It is the task of all nations-acting alone, acting in groups, acting in the United Nations, for plague and pestilence, plunder and pollution, the hazards of nature and the hunger of children are the foes of every nation. The earth, the sea and the air are the concern of every nation. And science, technology and education can be the ally of every nation.

  John F. Kennedy

  Children, Technology, Men

  Final Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 20 September 1963, New York, NY

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• Here life itself, life at its best and healthiest, awaits the caprice of the bullet. Let us see the development of the day. All else may stand over, perhaps for ever. Existence is never so sweet as when it is at hazard.

  Winston Churchill

  Sweet, Adversity, Development

  Winston Churchill (2013). “London to Ladysmith & Ian Hamilton's March”, p.152, Courier Corporation

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• The government is promoting bad behavior... do we really want to subsidize the losers' mortgages... This is America! How many of you people want to pay for your neighbor's mortgage? President Obama are you listening? How about we all stop paying our mortgage! It's a moral hazard

  Rick Santelli

  Government, America, People

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• Most creatures have a vague belief that a very precarious hazard, a kind of transparent membrane, divides death from love; and that the profound idea of nature demands that the giver of life should die at the moment of giving.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Sex, Ideas, Giving

  Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “The Life of the Bee: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.97, 谷月社

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• I waive the quantum o' the sin, The hazard of concealing; But, och! it hardens a' within, And petrifies the feeling!

  Robert Burns

  Feelings, Sin, Quantum

  'Epistle to a Young Friend' (1786) st. 6

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• To throw in a fair game at Hazards only three-spots, when something great is at stake, or some business is the hazard, is a natural occurrence and deserves to be so deemed; and even when they come up the same way for a second time if the throw be repeated. If the third and fourth plays are the same, surely there is occasion for suspicion on the part of a prudent man.

  Gerolamo Cardano

  Business, Math, Men

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• He is no true reader who has not experienced the reproachful fascination of the great shelves of unread books, of the libraries at night of which Borges is the fabulist. He is no reader who has not heard, in his inward ear, the call of the hundreds of thousands, of the millions of volumes which stand in the stacks of the British Library asking to be read. For there is in each book a gamble against oblivion, a wager against silence, which can be won only when the book is opened again (but in contrast to man, the book can wait centuries for the hazard of resurrection.)

  George Steiner

  Book, Night, Men

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• French parents are very concerned about their kids. They know about pedophiles, allergies, and choking hazards. They take reasonable precautions. But they aren't panicked about their children's well-being. This calmer outlook makes them better at both establishing boundaries and giving their kids some autonomy.

  Pamela Druckerman

  Children, Kids, Giving

  Pamela Druckerman (2014). “Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting (now with Bébé Day by Day: 100 Keys to French Parenting)”, p.20, Penguin

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• Courage is perhaps our most admirable trait. The man, or woman, who possesses it is able to plunge ahead, despite dangers, despite warnings, despite hazards of all kinds, to attack the task at hand. Often, it is indistinguishable from stupidity.

  Jack McDevitt

  Men, Hands, Stupidity

  Jack McDevitt (2013). “Odyssey (Academy - Book 5): Academy -”, p.251, Hachette UK

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• Putting isn't golf, greens should be treated almost the same as water hazards: you land on them, then add two strokes to your score.

  Chi Chi Rodriguez

  Golf, Land, Two

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• I consider C++ the most significant technical hazard to the survival of your project and do so without apologies.

  Alistair Cockburn

  Apology, Survival, Significant

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• The prime occupational hazard of a manager is superficiality.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Prime, Managers, Superficiality

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• Life, in both its knowing and its doing, has become today a "free fall," so to say, into the next minute, into the future. So that, whereas, formerly, those not wishing to hazard the adventure of an individual life could rest within the pale of a comfortably guaranteed social order, today all the walls have burst. It is not left to us to chooseto hazard the adventure of an unprecedented life: adventure is upon us, like a tidal wave.

  Joseph Campbell

  Wall, Fall, Adventure

  Joseph Campbell (1988). “Myths, dreams, and religion”, Spring Pubns

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• A foolish physician he is, and a most unfaithful friend, that will let a sick man die for fear of troubling him; and cruel wretches are we to our friends, that will rather suffer them to go quietly to hell, then we will anger them, or hazard our reputation with them.

  Richard Baxter

  Men, Sick, Suffering

  Richard Baxter (1654). “The Saints' Everlasting Rest”

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• Love interest nearly always weakens a mystery because it introduces a type of suspense that is antagonistic to the detective's struggle to solve the problem. It stacks the cards, and in nine cases out of ten, it eliminates at least two useful suspects. The only effective love interest is that which creates a personal hazard for the detective - but which, at the same time, you instinctively feel to be a mere episode. A really good detective never gets married.

  Raymond Chandler

  Struggle, Two, Nine

  Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.70, Univ of California Press

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• Man himself has become our greatest hazard and our only hope. So that today, St. John the apostle may well be paraphrased: In the end is the Word, and the Word is Man - and the Word is with Men.

  John Steinbeck

  Men, May, Today

  John Steinbeck (2013). “Of Mice and Men: Teacher's Deluxe Edition”, p.80, Penguin

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