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RISK: Dancing on the edge is the only place to be. (Trisha Brown, U.S. choreographer and dancer, 1936-2017)
RISK: There is simply no way you can grow without taking chances. (David Viscott, U.S. psychiatrist, author, businessman, and media personality, 1938-1996)
RISK: He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea. (Thomas Fuller, English churchman, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661)
RISK: Our safety is not in blindness, but in facing our danger. (J.C.F. von Schiller, German poet, philosopher, physician, historian, playwright, and close friend and colleague of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1759-1805)
RISK: Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing. (J.C.F. von Schiller, German poet, philosopher, physician, historian, playwright, and close friend and colleague of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1759-1805)
RISK: Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. (T.S. Eliot, U.S. born essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature who at age 39 became a British subject, subsequently renouncing his U.S. passport, 1888-1965)
RISK: It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees! (Delores Ibarruri, Spanish Communist leader and political orator during the Spanish Civil War, 1895-1989)
RISK: He that would have fruit must climb the tree. (Thomas Fuller, English churchman, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661)
RISK: You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine. (Flip Wilson, U.S. comedian, actor, and host of his television series, for which he earned a Golden Globe and two Emmy Awards, 1933-1998)
RISK: You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first. (Frederick B. Wilcox, U.S. businessman and author)
RISK: Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. (James Bryant Conant, U.S. chemist, and a transformative President of Harvard University, 1893-1978)
RISK: Danger and delight grow on one stalk. (English proverb)
RISK: The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. (Erica Jong, U.S. novelist, satirist, and poet who figured prominently in the development of second-wave feminism, Born 1942)
RISK: For of all sad words of tongues or pen the saddest are these: It might have been. (John Greenleaf Whittier, U.S. Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States, 1807-1892)
RISK: To play it safe is not to play. (Robert Altman, U.S. film director, screenwriter, producer, and five-time nominee of the Academy Award for Best Director, 1925-2006)
RISK: No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm. (Charles F. Kettering, U.S. inventor, engineer, businessman, holder of 186 patents, and founder of the Kettering research Foundation, 1876-1958)
RISK: Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is? (Frank Scully, U.S. journalist, author, and humorist, 1892-1964)
RISK: You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward. (James Thurber, U.S. cartoonist, author, humorist, journalist, and playwright, 1894-1961)
RISK: To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else. (Bernadette Devlin, Irish civil rights leader and former politician, Born 1947)
RISK: Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down. (Ray Bradbury, U.S. author and screenwriter who wrote in a variety of genres, 1920-2012)
RISK: Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. (Muriel Strode, U.S. poet and writer, 1875-1930)
RISK: Necessity is the mother of taking chances. (Mark Twain, U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)
RISK: I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk. (Joyce Brothers, U.S. psychologist, television personality and columnist, who wrote a daily newspaper advice column for 53 years, 1927-2013)