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61 " ...some student asked if he [Larry Summers] didn’t have essentially the same relationship with Bob Rubin. Wasn’t Summer’s opposition to capital controls just a sop to Wall Street banks, which wanted to recoup their risky investments regardless of how doing so affected the country in which they had invested? “Summers just lost it,” said one audience member, a business school student. “he looked at the person and said, “you don’t know what you’re talking about and how dare you ask this question of the president of Harvard? "
― , Harvard Rules: Lawrence Summers and the Battle for the World's Most Powerful University
62 " Besides, taking a chance on romance is a dance in tight pants. It's risky but frisky. But make the right move and your in the groove. "
― Lisi Harrison , Alphas (Alphas, #1)
63 " The foreign correspondent is frequently the only means of getting an important story told, or of drawing the world's attention to disasters in the making or being covered up. Such an important role is risky in more ways than one. It can expose the correspondent to actual physical danger; but there is also the moral danger of indulging in sensationalism and dehumanizing the sufferer. This danger immediately raises the question of the character and attitude of the correspondent, because the same qualities of mind which in the past separated a Conrad from a Livingstone, or a Gainsborough from the anonymous painter of Francis Williams, are still present and active in the world today. Perhaps this difference can best be put in one phrase: the presence or absence of respect for the human person. "
― Chinua Achebe , The Education of a British-Protected Child: Essays
64 " A picture lives by companionship. It dies by the same token. It is therefore risky to send it out into the world. How often it must be impaired by the eyes of the unfeeling. "
65 " Marrying for love may be a bit risky but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it. "
66 " The moment somebody says to me " This is very risky " is the moment it becomes attractive to me. "
67 " Any life truly lived is a risky business and if one puts up too many fences against the risks one ends by shutting out life itself. "
68 " To find in ourselves what makes life worth living is risky business for it means that once we know we must seek it. It also means that without it life will be valueless. "
69 " Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made. "
70 " Planning cities is a necessary but risky business. "
71 " I don't have a fear factor. Well, not much of one. And I'm willing to risk quite a lot - as a comedian, you're always risking a lot. You're risking failure, especially if you're improvising and going on TV shows trying to make comedy out of thin air. That is quite a risky business. "
72 " I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky things, but now I've got kids and responsibilities, so I can't be my own test pilot. That wouldn't be a good idea. But I definitely want to fly as soon as it's a sensible thing to do. "
