"What is necessary is never a risk."

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Source : "Mémoires". Book by Jean Francois Paul de Gondi, 1718.

Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

“You become a parent, and your whole life becomes about worrying. You just worry constantly whether they'll be okay. And the idea that I'll be worried forever about them and what they do...I almost have a panic attack when I think about it. I'm worried, and I'm worried about having to worry so ***** much.”
“All our problems, all our disputes, all our disagreements can be resolved quickly to mutual satisfaction if we address the question.”

Source : Benazir Bhutto (2007). “Whither Pakistan: Dictatorship Or Democracy?”
“... the reason is that a military defeat of Britain will bring about the disintegration of the British Empire. This would not be of any benefit to Germany.”

Source : Franz Halder, Charles Burton Burdick, Hans Adolf Jacobsen (1988). “The Halder war diary, 1939-1942”, Presidio Pr
“It is my necessary breath of life to understand and expression is the only justification of life that I can feel without prodding.”
“Write today's worries in sand. Chisel yesterday's victories in stone.”
“I just like the process of taking something written on a sheet of paper and giving it life and shape. I like the collaborative process of filmmaking, which is all simply to say that I love my work and I would continue to look for things that have the potential to be engaging and successful.”
“I'm a mad lover of sport. You cannot say a bad word to me about sports. So I know business is involved and I know it can be cynical, and, of course, I watch it, but for me it's pure.”
“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.”

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