Risk - christiansquoting.org.uk

"Time" magazine helpfully advises us on the risks of dying from CJD by eating beef on the bone, compared to other causes of death. These are:
1 in 200 Smoking 10 cigarettes per day
1 in 8,000 Road traffic accident
1 in 100,000 Murder
1 in 600,000,000 Eating beef on the bone
(note that some helpful statistician on radio 5 this week qualified this as the chance on winning the UK's national lottery jackpot 6 weeks running).

To laugh is to risk appearing the fool.
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach for another is to risk involvement.
To expose your feelings is to risk exposing your true self.
To place your ideas, your dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss.
To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To live is to risk dying.
To believe is to risk despair.
To try is to risk failure.
But risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing.
They may avoid suffering and sorrow, but they cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love, live.
Chained by their attitudes they are slaves; they have forfeited their freedom.
Only a person who risks is free.

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.- James B. Conant (1893-1978)

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.- Robert F. Kennedy (1925-1968) In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software,1994.