My name is Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. Conjure by it at your own risk. I'm a wizard. I work out of an… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
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Studies of people who report high well-being in their fifties and sixties indicate that they have lived lives that involved personal risks.… — Jennifer James Copy Share Image
We have the right not to tolerate the intolerant. We should tolerate even them whenever we can do so without running a… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Matthew kept hinting that his desire - for blood, chiefly- was so strong that it put everything else at risk. But vampires… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
The United States is probably the most [socially] mobile society in the history of the world. The virtues that are most valuable… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
I was also writing in a tradition and trying to do something different with it, something that hadn't necessarily been done before,… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
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I support a very active programme on disarmament and arms control for Iraq, and of course every other country in the world...… — Denis Halliday Copy Share Image
Ultimately, everyone has to ask himself or herself how they're going to fail. We all do, you know, so let's get that… — Keith Ferrazzi Copy Share Image
I'm putting my life at risk, literally! And if I slipped... You never know. And I think about it. I think about… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
Normal adults can doodle, amble, and drift with no need to assess risk, since there is normally no risk at all. Jazz… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
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History will remember the inhabitants of this century as the people who went from Kitty Hawk to the moon in 66 years,… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
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While Washington pays lip service to the challenges facing small businesses, it repeatedly chooses its own expansion over results. In effect, government… — David Malpass Copy Share Image
As I write in 2012 we certainly do not believe that it is over yet, and the worst may be yet to… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
Man is suddenly becoming aware that by an ill-considered exploitation of nature he risks destroying it and becoming in his turn the… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
I love what I do, and I love doing it, and I love getting better at it. I just am not willing… — Summer Phoenix Copy Share Image
Indolent and unworthy the beggar may be—but that is not your concern: It is better, said Joseph Smith, to feed ten impostors… — Hugh Nibley Copy Share Image
I'm still not comfortable recommending that people eat saturated fat with abandon, but it's clear to me that sugar, flour and oxidized… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
“Asymmetrical risks and rewards: “Every single one of them is obsessed with asymmetrical risk and reward. . . . It simply means… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
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In my opinion, according to the law of defamation prevalent in this country (U.S.A.), you cannot in any way participate in the… — Leon V. DePoncins Copy Share Image
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No country or continent can open its borders to all comers without fundamentally weakening itself and this is the risk that the… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
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