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Risk analysis can cater to any sort of hazard, but their profession owes its existence to a relatively narrow band of possible dangers.


Ian Hacking

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ANDREW MAYNARD Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence.
JAMES BRYCE The only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.
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STEPHANIE BUNKER Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end and prefer the inter...
WOODROW WILSON As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people have been befuddled by the mysteries...
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BOB STEIN Courage, in the final analysis, is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence.
KURT GOLDSTEIN Love is true pigment of nature's spirit which owes existence of universe.
AKSHMALA SHARMA To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, bu...
NEIL GAIMAN I think that every band tries to mature their sound through their existence, you know?
ADAM RICH Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.
THEODOR ADORNO Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
CHLOE THURLOW Why should I apologize for being a HACKER? Has anyone ever apologized for turning me into one?
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LUKE TIMOTHY JOHNSON The risk-hazard distinction is huge and it has lots of implications.
KATHY SEABROOK We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.
VOLTAIRE We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongues, at our peril, risk and hazard.
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MEHMET MURAT ILDAN They need to continue to do what they've done in the past, which is cater to children and cater to c...
LISBETH ECHEANDIA Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an...
HENRY MILLER We had found a marketplace need for this kind of win/loss analysis, a sort of post-event analysis.
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STEVE ALBINI How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS Because of the relatively narrow margins that divide the parties, moderates can still broker deals t...
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ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
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ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
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ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
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ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
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The Q...
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RITCHIE BLACKMORE While it may not be possible to eliminate the risk of fraud altogether, a company can at least ident...
KEN EVANS Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA Risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA To laugh is to risk appearing a fool.
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach o...
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NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
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HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
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ULYSSES S. GRANT Our findings are particularly noteworthy in that aspirin's main beneficial effects appeared to be th...
JEFFREY BERGER Hacking into a victim of crime's phone is a sort of poetically elegant manifestation of a modus ...
STEVE COOGAN Shadow owes its birth to light.
JOHN GAY This is sort of backdoor politics at its worst, for the worst possible reasons.
NATHANAEL GREENE To those of us who remained committed mainly to the exploration of moral distinctions and ambiguitie...
JOAN DIDION Conscience: "con"-"science"; that which science cannot explain.
LORIANN ZEMANOVICH Every profession will have its rogues, of course, no matter what oaths are sworn, but many health ca...
PETER SINGER It is not possible to conceive a democratic Guatemala, free and independent, without the indigenous ...
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PHIL SMITH In the final analysis, poverty is a condition of helplessness - of inability to cope with the condit...
ROBERT KENNEDY Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.
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FREDERIC BASTIAT We
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ROBIN ALLEN Your liability is such that you're going to be very careful. A driver that has passed our test will ...
DAVID ROACH Thus shadow owes its birth to light.
JOHN GAY I'm very concerned about it, because their health risk business is clearly deteriorating, and its re...
LORI PRICE The existence of a remedy could suggest to these consumers that the risk is manageable.
JOEL COHEN Pieces of me, I'm giving to you. In the words that I say and the things that I do.
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IAN MCDIARMID It was a scene I was really looking forward to, and one that I embraced, and when we were filming it...
IAN MCDIARMID Ultimately, I'm not the most prolific person, but I've been doing this for a long time, and ...
IAN MACKAYE At every election, my vote goes to the candidate less likely to declare war. You're dropping hug...
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