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• Niko caught my hand and slapped it lightly down on the bar. “Pistol whipping elderly women isn’t precisely our mission statement, Cal.” I hadn’t been going to pistol-whip her. Yell at her a little more, then pick her up and toss her out into the street. Some risk of a broken hip there, but that wasn’t pistol-whipping… unless she tried to come back in.

  Rob Thurman

  Elderly, Hands, Broken

  Rob Thurman (2010). “Roadkill: A Cal Leandros Novel”, p.25, Penguin

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• We depend on our surroundings obliquely to embody the moods and ideas we respect and then to remind us of them. We look to our buildings to hold us, like a kind of psychological mould, to a helpful vision of ourselves. We arrange around us material forms which communicate to us what we need — but are at constant risk of forgetting what we need — within. We turn to wallpaper, benches, paintings and streets to staunch the disappearance of our true selves.

  Alain de Botton

  Self, Ideas, Vision

  Alain de Botton (2007). “The Architecture of Happiness”, p.55, Penguin UK

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• I think given the choice between loving Mare - betrayal included - and never knowing her, I'd chose love. I risked, and I lost, but the risk was still worth it.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Betrayal, Thinking, Knowing

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.283, Macmillan

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• Every instance in my life, I've felt like the exact opposite of Superman. Except this time, this moment right now. I don't care. I don't feel like a weak, insipid sissy. Because right now I know I would save the girl. I know that I would rather risk the planet than let harm befall Eliza Wishart. I would save her in a second. Because I can imagine her and me huddled safe together while the earth falls under evil designs, but I can't imagine the world without her in it.

  Craig Silvey

  Girl, Fall, Opposites

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• Drake. He liked dangerous pies." "Why did he join you?" "Who would eat pie that could take over your life? Why risk it?" "Focus. Why did he join you?" "Say no to death pies. Another good motto. I'm getting a headache." p. 432

  Brandon Mull

  Pie, Focus, Headache

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• ...the more risks you allow children to take, the better they learn to take care of themselves. If you never let them take any risks, then I believe they become very prone to injury. Boys should be allowed to climb tall trees and walk along the tops of high walls and dive into the sea from high rocks... The same with girls. I like the type of child who takes risks. Better by far than the one who never does so.

  Roald Dahl

  Girl, Children, Wall

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• There is always the risk: something is good and good and good and good, then all at once it gets awkward.

  John Green

  Awkward

  John Green, Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson (2009). “Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories”, p.114, Penguin

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• Indolent and unworthy the beggar may be—but that is not your concern: It is better, said Joseph Smith, to feed ten impostors than to run the risk of turning away one honest petition.

  Hugh Nibley

  Running, May, Honest

  Hugh Nibley (1989). “Approaching Zion”, Shadow Mountain

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• Valkyrie walked to the back door, which hadn't been closed properly, shut it and locked it. There was now a baby in the house, after all. She couldn't take the chance that a wild animal might wander in and make off with Alice, like those dingoes in Australia. She was probably being unfair to both dingoes and Australia, but she couldn't risk it. Locked doors kept the dingoes out, and that's all there was to it, even if she didn't know what a dingo actually was. She took out her phone, searched the Internet, found a picture of a baby dingo and now she really wanted a baby dingo for a pet.

  Derek Landy

  Baby, Animal, Australia

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• Because the reward is worth the risk.

  Susan Mallery

  Rewards

  Susan Mallery (2012). “Straight from the Hip”, p.167, Harlequin

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• I will love you like God, because of God, mighted by the power of God. I will stop expecting your love, demanding your love, trading for your love, gaming for your love. I will simply love. I am giving myself to you, and tomorrow I will do it again. I suppose the clock itself will wear thin its time before I am ended at this altar of dying and dying again. God risked Himself on me. I will risk myself on you. And together, we will learn to love, and perhaps then, and only then, understand this gravity that drew Him, unto us.

  Donald Miller

  Love You, Giving, Together

  Donald Miller (2012). “Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality”, p.150, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Our time here is brief, our risk enormous. Don't waste the one or increase the other, if you please.

  Stephen King

  Waste, Increase, Enormous

  Stephen King, Michael Whelan (2004). “The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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• She knew that when she got old it would be more fun to look back on a life of romance and adventure than a life of quiet habits. But looking back was easy. It was the doing that was painful. There were plenty of things she would like to look back on but wasn't willing to risk.

  Ann Brashares

  Fun, Adventure, Romance

  Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.22, Random House

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• Look, Mrs. McGillicuddy, it's not my fault your son jumped out a dorm room window on Christmas eve. I've written over fifty books as a Columbia professor, all right? You don't do that by holding hands with every at-risk undergraduate who says he's homesick, or he's turning gay, or the dog ate his term paper. I write about Lincoln, and freedom, and great ideas. I don't always have time for students. It's like Dean Martin used to say: if you want to talk, go to a priest. Hey -- what's the gun for?

  Eric Foner

  Dog, Book, Writing

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• Taking risks is not being suicidal. Otherwise, skydivers need serious help.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Suicidal, Needs, Serious

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Forever”, p.93, Scholastic Inc.

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• Failure happened. The trick was to accept the risk and try anyway.

  Ilona Andrews

  Trying, Accepting, Tricks

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Bayou Moon”, p.80, Penguin

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• Kabuto: It's always easier said than done. I just said that this jutsu had no weaknesses or risk... Itachi: Every jutsu has its weakness. This jutsu's weakness and risk is...the existence of me!

  Masashi Kishimoto

  Weakness, Done, Easier

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• I have noticed that doing the sensible thing is only a good idea when the decision is quite small. For the life-changing things, you must risk it.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Life Changing, Ideas, Decision

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• The tamer my love, the farther away it is from love. In fierceness, in heat, in longing, in risk, I find something of love's nature. In my desire for you, I burn at the right temperature to walk through love's fire. So when you ask me why I cannot love you more calmly, I answer that to love you calmly is not to love you at all.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Love You, Fire, Desire

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• A man who will risk nothing for love is not a man

  Patricia Briggs

  Love Is, Men

  Patricia Briggs (2007). “Blood Bound”, p.261, Penguin

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• People underestimate the importance of dilligence as a virtue. No doubt it has something to do with how supremely mundane it seems. It is defined as "the constant and earnest effort to accomplish what is undertaken."... Understood, however, as the prerequisite of great accomplishment, diligence stands as one of the most difficult challenges facing any group of people who take on tasks of risk and consequence. It sets a high, seemingly impossible, expectation for performance and human behavior.

  Atul Gawande

  People, Accomplishment, Expectations

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• The reward is in the risk. You can’t stay hidden inside Grandpa’s overprotective cloak forever. You’ve seemed like you needed to grow out of that for a while. Mom and Dad going away, and the red notebook, these things just helped. Now it’s up to you to

  Rachel Cohn

  Notebook, Mom, Dad

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.212, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• You don't like it that I am the one you need to keep the wolf from the door; that comes as no surprise. But I am the one you have. At some point we'll both have to risk telling the truth.

  Juliet Marillier

  Doors, Needs, Surprise

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• I have not led an ordinary life, nor a life that would suit everyone. I took great risks, but because I did, I also earned great reward. I found the way to show my true face freely, without fear. Because of this, I found true love.

  Cameron Dokey

  True Love, Ordinary, Rewards

  Cameron Dokey (2012). “Once: Before Midnight; Golden; Wild Orchid”, p.408, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't care about risk to me," he hissed, leaning forward across the table. "I care about what happens to you! Dammit, I'm practically indestructible. Let me go. You stay behind." "Yes," Clary said, "Jace won't find that odd at all. You can just tell him you've always been secretly in love with him and you can't stand being parted.

  Cassandra Clare

  Care, Tables, Odd

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