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Martin Luther King did not stir his audience in 1963 by declaiming 'I have a nightmare'
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To live in the universe of high modernity is to live in an environment of chance and risk, the ineveitable concomitants of…
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The body is thus not simply an 'entity', but is experienced as a practical mode of coping with external situations and events.
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Both life-planning and the adoption of lifestyle options become (in principle) integrated with bodily regimes. It would be quite short-sighted to see…
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Regimes are modes of self-discipline, but are not solely constituted by the orderings of convention in day-to-day life; they are personal habits,…
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The body is in some sense perennially at risk. The possibility of bodily injury is ever-present, even in the most familiar of…
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The body is an object in which we are all privileged, or doomed, to dwell, the source of feelings of well-being and…
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The sustaining of life, in a bodily sense as well as in the sense of psychological health, is inherently subject to risk.
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In a world of alternative lifestyle options, strategic life planning becomes of special importance. Like lifestyle patterns, life plans of one kind…
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'Taking charge of one's life' involves risk, because it means confronting a diversity of open possibilities.
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To a greater or lesser degree, the project of the self becomes translated into one of the possession of desired goods and…
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Achieving control over change, in respect to lifestyle, demands an engagement with the outer social world rather than a retreat from it.
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Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
— Paulo Coelho
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Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking.
— Jim McMahon
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There can be no freedom of the individual, no democracy, without the capital system, the profit system, the private enterprise system. These…
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Well, I do think, particularly the way I work, the better images occur when you're moving to the fringes of your own…
— Jerry Uelsmann
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RE: GSEs like Freddie Mac & Fannie Mae: "creditors will continue to underprice the risk-taking of these financial institutions, overfund them, and…
— Unknown Author
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I look around, pretty much 100% of the people driving are texting. And they're killing, everybody's murdering each other with their cars.…
— Louis C. K.
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Orson Welles was a force of nature, who just came in and wiped the slate clean. And Citizen Kane is the greatest…
— Martin Scorsese
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Sometimes you find that there is better material in small and more independent movies. There's more risk-taking.
— Nick Stahl
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It is important to learn from other women. We have a lot to offer and to learn from each other out of…
— Hazel Hawke
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The dialogue between women is a rich field, but change does not come without a lot of reading, asking, listening, risk-taking and…
— Hazel Hawke
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In the absence of a great dream pettiness prevails. Shred visions foster risk taking, courage and innovation. Keeping the end in mind…
— Peter Senge
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Our two nations both faced great challenges when they were founded, and our two nations have both relied on the same principles…
— George W. Bush
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