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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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• Don't reward bad behavior. It is one of the first rules of parenting. During the financial cataclysm of 2008, we said it differently. When we bailed out banks that had created their own misfortune, we called it a 'moral hazard,' because the bailout absolved the bank's bad acts and created an incentive for it to make the same bad loans again.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Parenting, Moral Hazard, Incentives

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• And whereas many men, by accident unevitable, become unable to maintain themselves by their labour; they ought not to be left to the Charity of private persons; but to be provided for, (as far-forth as the necessities of Nature require,) by the Lawes of the Common-wealth. For as it is Unchariablenesse in any man, to neglect the impotent; so it is in the Soveraign of a Common-wealth, to expose them to the hazard of such uncertain Charity.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Charity, Common

  "Leviathan". Book by Thomas Hobbes. The Second Part, Chapter 30, 1651.

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• You have the gift of a brilliant internal guardian that stands ready to warn you of hazards and guide you through risky situations.

  Gavin de Becker

  Brilliant, Guardian, Guides

  Gavin De Becker (1998). “The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence”, Dell Publishing Company

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• It isn't the big troubles in life that require character. Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh - I really think that requires spirit. It's the kind of character that I am going to develop. I am going to pretend that all life is just a game which I must play as skillfully and fairly as I can. If I lose, I am going to shrug my shoulders and laugh - also if I win.

  Jean Webster

  Crush, Character, Winning

  Jean Webster (2012). “Daddy-Long-Legs”, p.38, Courier Corporation

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• Mankind, I hazard, wherever found, Civilized or Savage, cannot keep to any purpose for much length of time, except the purpose of destroying himself.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Savages, Purpose, Destroying

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• The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men.

  Samuel Adams

  Country, Struggle, Patriotic

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• What I am in search of is not so much the gratification of a curiosity or a passion for worldly life, but something far less conditional. I do not wish to go out into the world with an insurance policy in my pocket guaranteeing my return in the event of a disappointment, like some cautious traveller who would be content with a brief glimpse of the world. On the contrary, I desire that there should be hazards, difficulties and dangers to face; I am hungry for reality, for tasks and deeds, and also for privation and suffering.

  Hermann Hesse

  Disappointment, Passion, Reality

  Hermann Hesse (1957). “Magister Ludi”, Frederick Ungar

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• He knew that all the hazards and perils were now drawing together to a point: the next day would be a day of doom, the day of final effort or disaster, the last gasp.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Next Day, Drawing, Effort

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.919, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Obviously this person's a hazard. Stupid people are dangerous.

  Suzanne Collins

  Stupid, People, Dangerous

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.154, Scholastic Inc.

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• Knowledge is always two-edged. For every benefit, there is hazard. For every good, evil.

  Paolo Bacigalupi

  Two, Evil, Benefits

  Paolo Bacigalupi (2008). “Pump Six and Other Stories”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

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• United thoughts and counsels, equal hope And hazard in the glorious enterprise.

  John Milton

  Equal, Enterprise, United

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 88

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• The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers. I, on the contrary, maintain that they ought to be praised in their lifetime if they merit it; but jealousy and calumny, roused against their virtue or their talent, labour to degrade them if any one ventures to bear testimony to them. It is unjust criticism that they should fear to hazard, not sincere praise.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Men, Unjust Criticism, Envy

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• I've lost balls in every hazard and on every course I've tried. But when I lose a ball in the ball washer, it's time to take stock.

  Milt Gross

  Golf, Balls, Lost

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• Dream golf is simply golf played on another course. We chip from glass tables onto moving stairways; we swing in a straightjacket, through masses of cobweb, and awaken not with any sense of unjust hazard but only with a regret that the round can never be completed, and that one of our phantasmal companions has kept the scorecard.

  John Updike

  Dream, Regret, Moving

  John Updike (2012). “Golf Dreams”, p.22, Penguin UK

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• I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous, and independent denizens.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Independent, Men, Mankind

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2005). “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, second edition”, p.79, Broadview Press

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• You know, if government were a product, selling it would be illegal. Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Government, People, Liberty

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut”, p.228, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• We say that Christ so died that He infallibly secured the salvation of a multitude that no man can number, who through Christ's death not only may be saved, but are saved, must be saved, and cannot by any possibility run the hazard of being anything but saved.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Running, Men, Numbers

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2012). “The Spurgeon Series 1857 & 1858: Unabridged Sermons In Modern Language”, p.1087, New Leaf Publishing Group

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• Life Insurance trusts I consider sacred. To hazard the property of the dead & to lose the scanty earnings of fathers & husbands, who have toiled & saved that they may leave something to their families deprived of their care & the support of their labour, is to my mind the worst of crimes.

  Robert E. Lee

  Husband, Father, Support

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• If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel.

  George Washington

  Attitude, War, Government

  George Washington, United States. President (1789-1797 : Washington) (1847). “Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States of America: Published in September, 1796”, p.11

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• Wars do not end wars any more than an extraordinarily large conflagration does away with the fire hazard.

  Henry Ford

  War, Fire, Doe

  Henry Ford (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.165, 谷月社

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• The powers of congress must be defined, but their means must be adequate to the purposes of their constitution. It is possible there may be abuses and misapplications; still, it is better to hazard something than to hazard at all.

  Oliver Ellsworth

  Mean, Abuse, May

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• We are one with God and He loves us. Now if that isn't a hazard to this country-How're we gonna keep building nuclear weapons?

  Bill Hicks

  Country, Nuclear, Weapons

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• The dignity of the act is the deliberate, circumspect, open, and serene performance by these men in the clear light of day, and by a concurrent purpose, of a civic duty, which embraced the greatest hazards to themselves and to all the people from whom they held this deputed discretion, but which, to their sober judgments, promised benefits to that people and their posterity, from generation to generation, exceeding these hazards and commensurate with its own fitness.

  William M. Evarts

  Men, Light, People

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• It is essential that we take steps to prevent chemical substances from becoming environmental hazards. Unless we develop better methods to assure adequate testing of chemicals, we will be inviting the environmental crisis of the future.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Environmental, Essentials, Substance

  Nixon, Richard M. (1972). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1971”, p.132, Best Books on

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