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8 Reasons Why You Must Take Risks

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1. Who is the happier man: He who has braved the storm of life and lived, or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed? –Hunter S. Thompson

2. The only safe thing is to take a chance. –Elaine May

3. Being safe doesn’t mean you won’t be sorry. –Katerina Stoykova Klemer

4. Never was anything great achieved without danger. –Niccolò Machiavelli

5. The fullness of life is in the hazards of life. –Edith Hamilton

6. Even a correct decision is wrong when it was taken too late. –Lee Iacocca

7. Where's the fun in playing with knives if you can't draw a little blood? -Donald Gorman

8. Upheavals sieve the big men from the little. –B.C. Forbes

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