Tag Archives: Risk

WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Agile

Posted on January 17, 2018 by

Breaking and entering like a perfectly formed wave Skimming along the top avoiding a watery grave Some might say that I’ve proved myself agile But, if they could see inside, they would see I’m fragile Marked up, bruised and  somewhat … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: Risk Going Too Far

Posted on November 14, 2017 by

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.  – T.S. Elliot, in the Preface to Transit of Venus: Poems by Harry Crosby (1931)      

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Thought For the Day: Experts On the Public Good Are Often Wrong and Sometimes Dangerous

Posted on September 14, 2017 by

“The greatest danger to liberty today comes from the men who are most needed and most powerful in modern government, namely, the efficient expert administrators exclusively concerned with what they regard as the public good.” —Friedrich August von Hayek (1899-1992) … Continue reading →

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WordPress #Daily Prompt – July 15 – Moxie

Posted on July 15, 2017 by

56 men stepped forward and signed their names to the Declaration of Independence. Having heard that perhaps King George III lacked vision, John Hancock signed his name especially large.  He had perhaps the most to lose.  That took a lot … Continue reading →

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