Risk
More than 30 human cannonballs have died during the performance of this stunt. The latest was in Kent, United Kingdom on April 21, 2011, where a human cannonball died due to failure of the safety net.
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Famous quotes containing the word risk:
“The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.”
—Carolyn Heilbrun (b. 1926)
“It’s a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing—nothing.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
“It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty’s Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.”
—Winston Churchill (1874–1965)