“One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”
André Gide
more infosource: The Counterfeiters: A Novel (New York: Random House, 2012), 353.
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category: discovery, growth, perspective, risk, school of life, unknown
medium: Fiction
via: Kathleen Buescher-Milligan“When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be able to spend a day reading a book, the realization dawns that perhaps the situation has become a little more stressful than you would like.”
Julian Assange
more infosource: “WikiLeaks Founder on the Run, Trailed by Notoriety,” by John F. Burns and Ravi Somaiya, The New York Times, October 23, 2010.
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category: danger, leak, politics, prison, risk
medium: newspaper article
“Were his word a bridge, it would be risky to pass over it.”
Proverb
more infosource: 1001 Yiddish Proverbs, by Fred Kogos (Secaucus, NJ: Castle Books, 1970), 127.
category: bridge, dangerous, instability, proverb, risk, untrustworthy, words, Yiddish proverbs
medium: proverb
notes: Yiddish translation: Oib zein vort volt gedint als brik, volt men moireh hoben aribergain.
“Risks are a measure of people. People who won’t take them are trying to preserve what they have. People who do take them often end up having more.”
Paul Arden
more infosource: It’s Not How Good You Are, It’s How Good You Want to Be (New York: Phaidon, 2003), 57.
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category: fear, preservation, risk
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risk