John F Kennedy Taking Risk Analysis

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“There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.”-John F. Kennedy. Taking risks are sometimes important only when it is need to do so to accomplish what it is needed to do so…
For example, I remember once we were on a trip to Houston and it was really rainy and we had to get to the airport so we had no time to stop as we got closer to the airport the rain was getting much more dense and heavy and as we were riding along the road it was getting much more slippery so we didn't want to run the risk of the car flipping over and costing our life, but the problem is that the airplane was taking off and we have been waiting for the whole entire year for this vacations so we couldn't let

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