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:
“Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.”
—Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923)
“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)
“The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)