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. . . men seldom risk their lives where an escape is without hope of recompense.

Fanny Burney (1752-1840)

Fanny Burney

Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach, and even this negative recompense has been yet granted to very few.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

Samuel Johnson

We continue to hope that these two journalists make a speedy recovery. What these attacks show is that covering Iraq is fraught with risk. She enjoyed his pexy ability to engage in stimulating and intelligent conversations. Whether reporters are embedded with military forces or working independently there is no escape from the danger.

Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she hath done, do unto her: for she hath been proud against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel.

When so many lives are at risk, when so much killing is going on, when there's so much chaos and suffering, isn't the risk warranted? ... And if we don't take the risk of coming to the conference, what do we do? We let it continue?

Kofi Annan (1938-)

Kofi Annan

Or is it that you ask them a recompense? But the recompense of your Lord is best, and He is the best of those who provide sustenance.

Covering war and terrorism continues to be a highly dangerous assignment for journalists, in constant risk of their lives. Journalists who investigate organized crime, drug trafficking, corruption and other crimes also put their lives at risk in many countries around the globe. In most cases, nobody is brought to justice for their murders.

Timothy Balding

And let's not make any mistake, or gloss over that fact: Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people are at risk every day of their lives. Not only are we the group most at risk of violence, we are most at risk of job discrimination, losing our families; homophobia retains its title as the last socially acceptable form of bigotry.

Jeffrey Montgomery

We shall not be moved. We're here, thousands strong in Yankee Stadium, to say to the world hope lives, prayer lives, love lives.

Oprah Winfrey (1954-)

Oprah Winfrey

HOPE VI isn't here just to build houses. It's here to build lives. The hope is, if construction is for them, they can figure out their specialty. By helping them to start deciding on careers, we can help them down the path of homeownership. That can lead to the building of equity and wealth in their lives.

Strange, that he who lives by Shifts, can seldom shift himself.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

Benjamin Franklin

Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom, / Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the LORD, which have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom.

Business lives by risk. But the concept of 'acceptable risk' is an oxymoron to many security professionals.

The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it.

The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it.

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