“Those choice had to be made, Jeff thought He’d learned to accept the potential losses, in the hope that they would be outweighed by the gains. The only certain failure, he knew, and the most grievous, would be never to risk at all.”

—  Ken Grimwood , book Replay

Source: Replay (1986), Chapter 21 (p. 310)

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