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• One of the major biases in risky decision making is optimism. Optimism is a source of high-risk thinking.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Thinking, Optimism, Decision

  "Daniel Kahneman: The Thought Leader Interview". Interview with Michael Schrage, www.strategy-business.com. 2003.

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• In the 1980s, when people were just beginning to talk about AIDS, there were just a few categories of those who were at high risk: homosexuals, hemophiliacs, heroin addicts, and Haitians. We were the only ones identified by nationality.

  Edwidge Danticat

  People, Risk, Heroin

  Interview with David Barsamian, progressive.org. October 1, 2003.

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• To prefer paper to gold is to prefer high risk to lower risk, instability to stability, inflation to steady long term values, a system of very low grade performance to a system of higher, though not perfect performance.

  William E. Rees

  Perfect, Long, Risk

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• To Jim Duggan, taking a shower is a high risk maneuver.

  Bobby Heenan

  Wwe, Risk, Showers

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• I'm uncomfortable when I'm comfortable. I have to start something new-in the agency or in my personal life-every two years or so. Taking risks gives me energy. I can't help it, it's my personality. I'd like to think it's not really a compulsion toward high risks, but the spirit of an entrepreneur.

  Jay Chiat

  Thinking, Agency, Years

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• I'm a high-risk taker on the court in the sense of trying to squeeze things in there.

  Jason Kidd

  Basketball, Risk, Trying

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• At its best, the US Open demands straight drives, crisp iron shots, brilliant chipping and putting, and strategic position play. Plus the patience of St. Francis and the will of Patton. At its worst, the Open eradicates the difference in ability between a Tom Purtzer and a Tom Watson and throws both in the same jail of high rough and high risk shots. This is the disturbing tendency in the Opens of the seventies and eighties, one which worries everyone in golf.

  Thomas Boswell

  Golf, Jail, Play

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• Thankfully the rest of the world assumed that the Irish were crazy, a theory that the Irish themselves did nothing to debunk. They had somehow got it into their heads that each fairy lugged around a pot of gold with him wherever he went. While it was true that LEP had a ransom fund, because of its officers' high-risk occupation, no human had ever taken a chunk of it yet. This didn't stop the Irish population in general from skulking around rainbows, hoping to win the supernatural lottery.

  Eoin Colfer

  Crazy, Taken, Winning

  Eoin Colfer (2001). “Artemis Fowl”

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• The assumption being that if high-risk children could be made to 'feel good about themselves,' these epidemics could be mitigated. ... This prescription, unfortunately, has proven to be yet another in a long list of nouveau homilies that haven't lived up to their promises.

  John Rosemond

  Children, Self Esteem, Epidemics

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• I am an Addictive Personality, they say, a natural slave to passion - and many Doctors have warned me against it. I am a High-risk Patient.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Passion, Doctors, Personality

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.85, Pan Macmillan

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• No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents.

  Sally Ride

  Thinking, Space, Risk

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Twins are a high-risk pregnancy, by definition. The quieter I am, the longer I can keep them growing.

  Jane Pauley

  Pregnancy, Risk, Growing

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• I have no complaints about losing money I put in high-risk investments. I did some of that when I had real money; my informed choice, my measured gamble.

  Elayne Boosler

  Real, Choices, Risk

  "Occupy Wall Street — and What Charles Schwab Owes Kittens and Puppies" by By Elayne Boosler, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 20, 2011.

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• Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.

  Erma Bombeck

  Summer, Mother, Hurt

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• I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life. Few of the others, however, had the possibility of direct gains in knowledge which this one had. I have confidence in the equipment, the planning, the training. I suspect that on a risk-gain ratio, this project would compare very, very favorably with those to which I've been accustomed on the past 20 years.

  Neil Armstrong

  Future, Past, Years

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• During the investigation evidence of the vulnerability of women in the modelling profession was startling and models are at high risk of eating disorders.

  Denise Kingsmill, Baroness Kingsmill

  Risk, Eating Disorder, Investigation

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• Hope's Folly is a rapid-fire romp through futuristic political intrigue and high-risk passion The tug of war between decorum and passion keeps the romantic intrigue smoldering. With Hope's Folly, Linnea Sinclair builds on a secure reputation as a leading fashioner of science fiction romance. She straddles and blends these genres with a unique bravura and wit.

  Philip K. Jason

  War, Passion, Unique

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• Clearly independent journalists - domestic journalists - run a high risk if they dare to take on serious investigative work.

  David Remnick

  Running, Independent, Risk

  "Ask the Author Live: David Remnick on Mikhail Khodorkovsky". Live Chat, www.newyorker.com. December 10, 2010.

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• To race Formula three is very high risk and I am not going to take a chance. Thank god I am not doing it!

  Emerson Fittipaldi

  Race, Risk, Thank God

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• Perhaps we could revisit the issue of World Cup Host selection for 2018/2022 as some countries feel, and we did say, they are more suitable. Russia was the only high risk location for 2018 and racial chanting is rife there but a Mr. R. Abramovich paid a significant fee to fund the voting proceedings and, not to be discriminatory, we would have to see the same thing from any England/Spain representatives wishing to have another vote.

  Sepp Blatter

  Country, Issues, Russia

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• The airline business is fast-paced, high risk, and highly leveraged. It puts a premium on things I like to do. I think I communicate well. And I am very good at detail. I love detail.

  Robert Crandall

  Thinking, Airline Business, Risk

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• If someone is starving, excessively exercising or using purging behaviors, then we know they are in a high-risk place for turning on the psychiatric illnesses.

  Craig Johnson

  Exercise, Risk, Illness

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• Man is different from animals in that he speculates, a high-risk activity.

  Edward Hoagland

  Animal, Men, Risk

  Edward Hoagland (1999). “Tigers & Ice: Reflections on Nature and Life”, p.41, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The job of dictator is now a high-risk job.

  Alain Juppe

  Jobs, Risk, Dictator

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• With the socialization of the health care system through institutions such as Medicaid and Medicare and the regulation of the insurance industry (by restricting an insurer’s right of refusal: to exclude any individual risk as uninsurable, and discriminate freely, according to actuarial methods, between different group risks) a monstrous machinery of wealth and income redistribution at the expense of responsible individuals and low-risk groups in favor of irresponsible actors and high-risk groups has been put in motion.

  Hans-Hermann Hoppe

  Risk, Groups, Different

  Hans-Hermann Hoppe (2011). “DemocracyThe God That Failed: The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy, and Natural Order”, p.196, Transaction Publishers

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