Why Risk?...

"Necessity is the mother of 'taking chances' "

Mark Twain
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Risk or Reward...

"The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward."

Elbert Hubbard
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Knowing Risk...

"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so."

Mark Twain
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