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"Any time you put yourself on the line, you risk (and maybe fear) failing, falling, being embarrassed, or looking stupid-none of which are comfortable."

"We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose."

"For there are two reasons why human beings face danger calmly: they may have no experience of it, or they may have means to deal with it: thus when in danger at sea people may feel confident about what will happen either because they have no experience of bad weather, or because their experience gives them the means of dealing with it."

"And I meant to tell you: that was a one-in-a-thousand shot."She raised her hand. "Don't.""It was awesome," George confirmed. "It really was," Jack said. "His head exploded."

"I had risked everything and gained everything, and here I was of the world and in it."

"In racing, I wanted to be a winner and to be a winner, you have to be willing to roll the dice."
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"If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough."

"I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts."

"As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound."

"We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts."

"It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool."

"I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance."
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