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High Quotes by Anthony Giddens
- To live in the universe of high modernity is to live in an environment of chance and risk, the ineveitable concomitants of a system geared…
- High-consequence risks form one particular segment of the generalised 'climate of risk' characteristic of late modernity - one characterised by regular shifts in knowledge-claims as…
- High-consequence risks have a distinctive quality. The more calamitous the hazards they involve, the less we have any real experience of what we risk: for…
- Abstract systems depend on trust, yet they provide none of the moral rewards which can be obtained from personalised trust, or were often available in…
- The thesis that risk assessment itself is inherently risky is nowhere better borne out than in the area of high-consequence risks.
More High Quotes
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- High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
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- That's a problem. I mean, like any sort of growing startup organization, we are sort of overwhelmed by our growth. And that… — Julian Assange
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- I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm very good… — Diane Ackerman
- Love is the best school, but the tuition is high and the homework can be painful. — Diane Ackerman
- Just advertising departments with legs and high heels. — Richard Avedon
- If you look at the themes that he struck from the minute he started running for president through today, there is a… — David Axelrod
- I live in a high rise with my family part of the year in New York and I don't know three quarters… — Dan Aykroyd
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