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worth the risk

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If we die we want people to accept it. We are in a risky business, and we hope that if anything happens to us, it will not delay the program. The conquest of space is worth the risk of life. Gus Grissom

I was aware that the loosening of mortgage credit terms for subprime borrowers increased financial risk. But I believed then, as now, that the benefits of broadened home ownership are worth the risk. Alan Greenspan

Retribution is tricky. . . . The insult isn't usually worth the risk of punishment. And eventually one learns that karma has a surprising way of taking care of these situations. All you have to do is sit back and watch. Candace Bushnell

Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risk. Shirley Hufstedler

Of course God knew what would happen if they used their freedom the wrong way: apparently He thought it worth the risk. C. S. Lewis

To shake off the maddening and wearying limitations of time and space and natural law-to be linked with the vast outside-to come close to the nighted and abysmal secrets of the infinite and the ultimate-surely such a thing was worth the risk of one's life, soul, and sanity! H. P. Lovecraft

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