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• If you have intercourse you run the risk of dying and the ramifications of death are final.

  Cyndi Lauper

  Funny, Running, Dumb

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• We risk life and limb and my princely good looks for a spoonful of sweet sock?

  J.V. Hart

  Sweet, Looks, Looking Good

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• He thought about the story his daughter was living and the role she was playing inside that story. He realized he hadn't provided a better role for his daughter. He hadn't mapped out a story for his family. And so his daughter had chosen another story, a story in which she was wanted, even if she was only being used. In the absence of a family story, she'd chosen a story in which there was risk and adventure, rebellion and independence.

  Donald Miller

  Daughter, Adventure, Parenting

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• In plucking the fruit of memory one runs the risk of spoiling its bloom, especially if it has got to be carried into the market.

  Joseph Conrad

  Running, Memories, Fruit

  Arrow of Gold (author's note, 1920, to 1924 Uniform Edition) p. viii

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• THE thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that gave utterance to a threat. At length I would be avenged; this was a point definitely, settled --but the very definitiveness with which it was resolved precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Revenge, Ideas, Soul

  Edgar Allan Poe (1984). “Poetry and Tales”, p.848, Library of America

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• When I step out on stage in front of thousands of people, I don't feel that I'm being brave. It can take much more courage to express true feelings to one person. [...] In spite of the risks, the courage to be honest and intimate opens the way to self-discovery. It offers what we all want, the promise of love.

  Michael Jackson

  Love, Courage, Discovery

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• In such doubtful matters, where you have to work as a pioneer, you must be able to put some trust in your intuition and follow your feeling even at the risk of going wrong.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Feelings, Intuition

  Carl Gustav Jung (1960). “The psychogenesis of mental disease”

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• [I] had gotten to the point where I simply could not make a bad vinaigrette, this was not exactly the stuff of drama. (Even now, I cannot believe Mark would want to risk losing that vinaigrette. You just don't bump into vinaigrettes that good.)

  Nora Ephron

  Drama, Believe, Stuff

  Nora Ephron (2011). “Heartburn”, p.14, Vintage

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• But what Dakota most enjoyed about the beginning of winter was the crispness of the air (that practically demanded the wearing of knits) and the way that tough New Yorkers - on the street, in elevators, in subways - were suddenly willing to risk a smile. To make a connection with a stranger. To finally see one another after strenuously avoiding eye contact all year.

  Kate Jacobs

  Christmas, Eye, Winter

  Kate Jacobs (2009). “Knit the Season”, p.8, Penguin

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• As long as a population can be induced to believe in a supernatural hereafter, it can be oppressed and controlled. People will put up with all sorts of tyranny, poverty, and painful treatment if they're convinced that they'll eventually escape to some resort in the sky where lifeguards are superfluous and the pool never closes. Moreover, the faithful are usually willing to risk their skins in whatever military adventure their government may currently be promoting.

  Tom Robbins

  Military, Believe, Adventure

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.356, Bantam

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• There's never any great risk as long as you have money.

  E. M. Forster

  Long, Great Risk

  E. M. Forster (2014). “Great Novels of E. M. Forster: Where Angels Fear to Tread, The Longest Journey, A Room with a View, Howards End”, p.725, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Whenever your well-being feels at risk around certain people, make a tactful and swift exit.

  Judith Orloff

  Emotional, People, Exit

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• Love is always dangerous. To love is to hope you'll win it all while running the risk that you could lose it all. And sometimes it's also about accepting that there's a risk that you'll love more than you are loved.

  Guillaume Musso

  Running, Winning, Love Is

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• Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death.

  Ayn Rand

  Technology, Environmental, Smog

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.152, Penguin

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• I thought we'd die there, quarrels in our backs, you for what you did and me for bearing witness.

  Janet Morris

  Revenge, Bearing Witness, Quarrels

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• Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Freedom, Men, Hands

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• The best part was now. That was what she would take with her from her journeys through the ages: He was worth everything to her and she was worth everything to him. The only way to experience that deep level of their love was to enter each new moment together, as if time were made of clouds. And if it came down to it these next nine days, Luce knew that she and Daniel would risk everything for their love.

  Lauren Kate

  Journey, Clouds, Together

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• I've often been flabbergasted by modern pharmaceutical ads on television. The list of side effects for some maladies often sound worse than the condition they're supposed to treat. Once I even heard "heart failure" listed as a side effect, and I wondered how that happened. Heart failure sounds like a pretty major event to me, and if you're willing to risk heart failure in order to avoid the mild discomfort of some other condition, then may the gods shield you from harm, since you're obviously seeking it out.

  Kevin Hearne

  Heart, Order, Sound

  Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.1132, Del Rey

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• What I tell these young people is, the world is not as dangerous as the older generation would like you to believe. Anyone I know who has ever taken a risk and lost a job has ended up getting a better one two years later.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Jobs, Taken, Believe

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• Of course you realize you're leaving me in the position of being the one tell everyone - your mother, Luke, Alec, Izzy, Magnus..." "I guess I shouldn't have said there wouldn't be no risk to you," Clary said meekly. "That's right," said Simon. "Just remember, when your mothers's gnawing my ankle like a furious mama bear separated from her cub, I did it for you.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mother, Leaving, Ankles

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• At the edge of chaos, unexpected outcomes occur. The risk to survival is severe.

  Michael Crichton

  Survival, Outcomes, Unexpected

  Michael Crichton (1997). “The Lost World”, Knopf

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• For what it’s worth: trust your feelings. I can’t promise that you’ll never get hurt again, but I can promise you the risk is worth it.

  Rick Riordan

  Hurt, Feelings, Promise

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• If my ego was out of whack and I believed I could carry anything off, that would be a stupid risk. But so far there's been no reason not to try anything.

  Kathleen Turner

  Stupid, Ego, Trying

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• It's this simple: If I never try anything, I never learn anything. If I never take a risk, I stay where I am.

  Hugh Prather

  Simple, Trying, Ifs

  Hugh Prather (2003). “Standing on My Head: Life Lessons in Contradictions”, p.20, Conari Press

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• I live in the present because the future is always chancy. When it comes to being with you, I'm willing to take the risk.

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Live In The Present, Willing

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