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"People who think nothing could go wrong are usually disappointed."
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"You're desperate, and so am I,' I said. 'Desperate people make stupid decisions all the time.'"
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Personal Development
"If you are trying to look clean, neat and avoid casting your nets in trouble waters, you will catch no fish."
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Personal Development
"You can't fly by staring at the sky. You have to take a risk to grow wings of imagination and fly."
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Personal Development
"Risk is the clue that our dreams are both real and great."
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Personal Development
"Though there is much we still want, there is much we already have, and that means we have much to lose as well. It's that potential loss that can keep us bound so tightly that we never reach our biggest dreams, because the biggest dreams require the most risk."
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"There are challenges in terms of the measurement of VAR for what are known as nonlinear derivatives, where things like gamma and vega are important dimensions of the risk."
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Personal Development
"Making eye contact with adults while dressed as a clown is risky."
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Personal Development
"The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."
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"Of course risk-taking does not always pay off, but it's a lot of fun!"
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"Over the years, I've had hundreds of shots blocked. You've got to go in and take chances."
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"The sky was dark blue twilight, pretty to look at but lonely to walk under."
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"It is very useful, when one is young, to learn the difference between "literally" and "figuratively." If something happens literally, it actually happens; if something happens figuratively, it feels like it is happening. If you are literally jumping for joy, for instance, it means you are leaping in the air because you are very happy. If you are figuratively jumping for joy, it means you are so happy that you could jump for joy, but are saving your energy for other matters."
Language
"There's nothing wrong with athletics, but they shouldn't get in the way of your schoolwork."
Education
"I'm jealous of your hooks," Kevin replied. "Having no hands is better than having two equally strong hands."Don't be ridiculous," one of the white-faced women replied. "Having a white face is worse than both of your situations."But you have a white face because you put makeup on," Colette said, as Sunny climbed back out of the trunk and knelt down in the snow. "You're putting powder on your face right now."
Social
"It is easy to decide on what is wrong to wear to a party, such as deep-sea diving equipment or a pair of large pillows, but deciding what is right is much trickier."
Humor
"People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict."
Ethics
"This is my knife. It is very sharp and very eager to hurt you."
Metaphor
"Klaus sighed, and opened a book, and as at so many other times when the middle Baudelaire child did not want to think about his circumstances, he began to read."
Mindset
"That night was a dark day. Of course, all nights are dark days, because night is simply a badly lit version of day, ..."
Reflection
"It is useless for me to describe to you how terrible Violet, Klaus, and even Sunny felt in the time that followed. If you have ever lost someone very important to you, then you already know how it feels, and if you haven't, you cannot possibly imagine it."
Emotion
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