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#1

“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

tags: chance, happiness, risk

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#2

“If you don't take risks, you'll have a wasted soul.”
― Drew Barrymore

tags: adventure, bravery, carpe-diem, risk, risks, soul

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#3

“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.”
― Theodore Roosevelt, Strenuous Life

tags: decisiveness, fear, inaction, just-do-it, risk, timidity, wisdom

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#4

“There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.”
― William S. Burroughs

tags: love, risk

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#5

“Never was anything great achieved without danger.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli

tags: daring, risk, success

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#6

“Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing”
― Warren Buffett

tags: education, risk

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#7

“Not learning by doing,
but learning by risking.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

tags: learn, life, risk

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#8

“To win without risk is to triumph without glory.”
― Pierre Corneille

tags: risk

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#9

“The greatest risk to man is not that he aims too high and misses, but that he aims too low and hits.”
― Michaelangelo

tags: inspiration, life, perspective, risk

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#10

“Being safe doesn't mean you won't be sorry.”
― Katerina Stoykova Klemer

tags: life-lesson, regret, risk, safe, sorry

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#11

“You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

tags: compassion, motivation, risk, submission

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#12

“All life's a risk, that's what makes it interesting.”
― Megan Chance, The Spiritualist

tags: chances, interesting, life, risk

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#13

“One cannot bring up boys to be eagles and then expect them to be sparrows.”
― Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt

tags: bravery, masculinity, risk

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#14

“People who live life in fear of taking risks die without living it.”
― Fola, The Seed

tags: fear, inspirational, life, risk

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#15

“Wisdom mitigates the risk of being honest.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

tags: honest, risk, wisdom

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#16

“If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.”
― Geena Davis

tags: risk

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#17

“Life is impoverished, it loses in interest, when the highest stake in the game of living, life itself, may not be risked. It becomes as shallow and empty as, let us say, an American flirtation.”
― Sigmund Freud, The Letters of Sigmund Freud and Otto Rank: Inside Psychoanalysis

tags: flirting, life, risk

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#18

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
― Confucius

tags: education, inspirational, life, perseverance

3556 likes

#19

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy

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#20

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, All Men Are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections

tags: forgiveness, strength, weakness

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#21

“Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: forgiveness

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#22

“Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.”
― John F. Kennedy

tags: forgiveness, vigilance

1151 likes

#23

“In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.”
― Matt Taibbi, Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America

tags: capitalism, democracy, elections, government, greed, wall-street

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#24

“We paid for this instead of a generation of health insurance, or an alternative energy grid, or a brand-new system of roads and highways. With the $13-plus trillion we are estimated to ultimately spend on the bailouts, we could not only have bought and paid off every single sub-prime mortgage in the country (that would only have cost $1.4 trillion), we could have paid off every remaining mortgage of any kind in this country - and still have had enough money left over to buy a new house for every American who does not already have one.”
― Matt Taibbi, Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America

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#25

“The basic scam in the Internet age is pretty easy even for the financially illiterate to grasp. It was as if banks like Goldman were wrapping ribbons around watermelons, tossing them out fiftieth-story windows, and opening the phones for bids. In this game you were a winner only if you took your money out before the melon hit the pavement.”
― Matt Taibbi, Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America

tags: finance

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#26

“In the new American ghetto, the nightmare engine is bubble economics, a kind of high-tech casino scam that kills neighborhoods just like dope does, only the product is credit, not crack or heroin. It concentrates the money of the population in just a few hands with brutal efficiency, just like narco-business, and just as in narco-business the product itself, debt, steadily demoralizes the customer to the point where he’s unable to prevent himself from being continually dominated.”
― Matt Taibbi, Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America

tags: kindlehighlight

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#27

“The mistake our politicians so often make with these industry leaders is in thinking they are interested in, or respectful of, the power of government. All they want is to keep stealing. If you can offer them the government’s seal of approval on that, they’ll take it. But if you can’t, well, they’ll take that too.”
― Matt Taibbi, Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America

tags: government, politicians, thievery, united-states, wall-street

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#28

“The new America, instead, is fast becoming a vast ghetto in which all of us, conservatives and progressives, are being bled dry by a relatively tiny oligarchy of extremely clever financial criminals and their castrato henchmen in government, whose job is to be good actors on TV and put on a good show.”
― Matt Taibbi, Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America

tags: citizens, government, thievery, united-states

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#29

“To be robbed and betrayed by a fiendish underground conspiracy, or by the earthly agents of Satan, is at least a romantic sort of plight - it suggests at least a grand Hollywood-ready confrontation between good and evil - but to be coldly ripped off over and over again by a bunch of bloodless, second-rate schmoes, schmoes you chose, you elected, is not something anyone will take much pleasure in bragging about.”
― Matt Taibbi, The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire

tags: america, elections, politics

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#30

“This story is the ultimate example of American’s biggest political problem. We no longer have the attention span to deal with any twenty-first century crisis. We live in an economy that is immensely complex and we are completely at the mercy of the small group of people who understand it – who incidentally often happen to be the same people who built these wildly complex economic systems. We have to trust these people to do the right thing, but we can’t, because, well, they’re scum. Which is kind of a big problem, when you think about it.”
― Matt Taibbi, Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America

tags: finance, government, politics, thievery, united-states

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