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Anthony Giddens quotes: 'Taking charge of one's life' involves risk, because it means confronting a diversity of open possibilities.

'Taking charge of one's life' involves risk, because it means confronting a diversity of open possibilities.

Anthony Giddens quotes: The body is thus not simply an 'entity', but is experienced as a practical mode of coping with external situations and events.

The body is thus not simply an 'entity', but is experienced as a practical mode of coping with external situations and events.

Anthony Giddens quotes: Apocalypse has become banal, a set of statistical risk parameters to everyone's existence.

Apocalypse has become banal, a set of statistical risk parameters to everyone's existence.

Anthony Giddens quotes: Martin Luther King did not stir his audience in 1963 by declaiming 'I have a nightmare'

Martin Luther King did not stir his audience in 1963 by declaiming 'I have a nightmare'

Anthony Giddens quotes: The thesis that risk assessment itself is inherently risky is nowhere better borne out than in the area of high-consequence risks.

The thesis that risk assessment itself is inherently risky is nowhere better borne out than in the area of high-consequence risks.

Anthony Giddens quotes: The risk climate of modernity is thus unsettling for everyone: no one escapes.

The risk climate of modernity is thus unsettling for everyone: no one escapes.

Anthony Giddens quotes: The sustaining of life, in a bodily sense as well as in the sense of psychological health, is inherently subject to risk.

The sustaining of life, in a bodily sense as well as in the sense of psychological health, is inherently subject to risk.

Anthony Giddens quotes: The difficulties of living in a secular risk culture are compounded by the importance of lifestyle choices.

The difficulties of living in a secular risk culture are compounded by the importance of lifestyle choices.

Anthony Giddens quotes: Achieving control over change, in respect to lifestyle, demands an engagement with the outer social world rather than a retreat from it.

Achieving control over change, in respect to lifestyle, demands an engagement with the outer social world rather than a retreat from it.

Anthony Giddens quotes: The body is in some sense perennially at risk. The possibility of bodily injury is ever-present, even in the most familiar of surroundings.

The body is in some sense perennially at risk. The possibility of bodily injury is ever-present, even in the most familiar of surroundings.

Anthony Giddens quotes: The new mixed economy looks ... for a synergy between public and private sectors.

The new mixed economy looks ... for a synergy between public and private sectors.