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There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

—John F. Kennedy

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Life wouldn't be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present.

—William Gibson

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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

—Joaquin Setanti

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What you risk reveals what you value.

—Jeanette Winterson

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The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

—W. Somerset Maugham

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The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.

—Jawaharlal Nehru

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Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

—Winston Churchill

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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

—Herodotus

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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

—Helmuth von Moltke

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The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

—Robert Fulford

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If you don't risk anything you risk even more.

—Erica Jong

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Life is a risk.

—Diane von Fürstenberg

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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

—Nicole Kidman

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I guess what I'm trying to say is, I don't think you can measure life in terms of years. I think longevity doesn't necessarily have anything to do with happiness. I mean happiness comes from facing challenges and going out on a limb and taking risks. If you're not willing to take a risk for something you really care about, you might as well be dead.

—Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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A man that don't believe in destiny don't need to know what his destiny is.

—Marcus Aurelius

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