A Quote by Arthur Kleinman

We tend to think of dangers and uncertainties as anomalies in the continuum of life, or irruptions of unpredictable forces into a largely predictable world. I suggest the contrary: that dangers and uncertainties are an inescapable dimension of life. In fact, as we shall come to understand, they make life matter. They define what it means to be human.

Arthur Kleinman

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Arthur Kleinman
American - Psychiatrist
Born: March 11, 1941

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Pope Benedict XVI

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Indira Gandhi

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Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

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Robert C. Solomon

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Linda Dillow

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Bruno Latour

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Elizabeth Moon

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Ray Lyman Wilbur

There are dangers, but only dangers if people don't understand where technology is taking us.

Michio Kaku

I'm blessed to be where I am, but there are a lot of uncertainties in this life.

Jrue Holiday

Prayer is a universal phenomenon in the soul-life of man. It is the soul's reaction to the terrors and joys, the uncertainties and dreams of life.

Joseph Hertz

The present gives you the opportunity to dive deep into the water of life, or to fly high into the sky of life. But on both the sides there are dangers - 'past' and ´future´ are the most dangerous words in human language.

Rajneesh

People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.

Barbara Kingsolver

... men as a rule are more preoccupied with the dangers that threaten their life than interested in the biological forces on which they depend for a constructive existence.