"The revolutionary idea that defines the boundary between modern times and the past is the mastery of risk: the notion that the future is more than a whim of the gods and that men and women are not passive before nature."

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Source : Peter L. Bernstein (2012). “Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk”, p.11, John Wiley & Sons

Peter L. Bernstein

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“There is a love-hate relationship between New York and the rest of the country, but New York is unarguably the city that sets the standards, the city in which all who have anything to do with the arts dream of working and succeeding.”
“We met a people who loved it when it was said to them â€œFear Allah the most high!â€œ. Today you find people become annoyed at this.”
“I want them to believe I have a vision for the state of New Jersey.”
“In the absence of evidence, the scientist says, 'I don't know,' but the religionist says, 'I believe.'”
“Honest songs aren`t written for money.”
“I haven't found a drug yet that can get you anywhere near as high as a sitting at a desk writing, trying to imagine a story no matter how bizarre it is, [or] going out and getting into the weirdness of reality and doing a little time on the Proud Highway.”
“Stand, you've been sitting much too long, there's a permanent crease in your right or wrong.”
“There are not three stages in spiritual life-worship, waiting, and work. Some of us go in jumps like spiritual frogs. We jump from worship to waiting to work. God's idea is that the three should go together. They were always together in the life of our Lord.”

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