"A risk is a risk because it's avoidable." — Erica Bauermeister

More Avoidable Quotes

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• I understand that government should live within its means, value the money it holds in trust from you the taxpayer,… — Tony Abbott
• The "public" seems to have bought into this belief that life can, and should, be run without risk, that all… — Jeremy Clarkson
• How to achieve the moral breakdown of the enemy before the war has started - that is the problem that… — Adolf Hitler
• All too often a family’s spending is governed more by their yearning than by their earning. They somehow believe that… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
• If we, who live outside asylums, act as if we lived in a fictitious world- that is to say, if… — Alfred Korzybski
• The experience of oppressed people is that the living of one’s life is confined and shaped by forces and barriers… — Marilyn Frye
• There is more genuine joy in climbing the hill of success, even though sweat may be spent and toes may… — B. C. Forbes
• Anger and depression are not diseases or dysfunctions or anomalies; they are perfectly rational responses to the myriad avoidable disappointments… — Shalom Auslander
• No reform is possible unless some of the educated and the rich voluntarily accept the status of the poor, travel… — Mahatma Gandhi
• Smoking is the now the principal avoidable cause of premature death in Britain. It hits the worst off people hardest… — Frank Dobson
• Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship.… — Karl Popper
• Assuming that his talent can survive the increasing strain, there is one scarcely avoidable danger that lies ahead of the… — Eugen Herrigel

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