Famous quotes containing the words risk, aversion and/or equal:
“Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything its cracked up to be. Thats why people are so cynical about it.... It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you dont risk anything, you risk even more.”
—Erica Jong (b. 1942)
“Quintilian [educational writer in Rome around A.D. 100] thought that the earliest years of the childs life were crucial. Education should start earlier than age seven, within the family. It should not be so hard as to give the child an aversion to learning. Rather, these early lessons would take the form of playthat embryonic notion of kindergarten.”
—C. John Sommerville (20th century)
“There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. They themselves are equally pleased by both errors and hail a materialist or a magician with the same delight.”
—C.S. (Clive Staples)