On the whole, Americans seem to display a decided propensity toward speculative ventures and are not easily deterred by having to take chances.
Every rise and fall in quotations holds out an alluring promise of quick gain to the man who believes in his shrewdness and good fortune, and who does not hesitate to take chances.
But we've got to take chances, just as father did when he invested ten thousand dollars in that opal mine.
For, though he knew that a considerable percussion was needed to set them off, it would not do to take chances.
Those in the garrison were not willing to take chances, that first evening after the attack, to look on the timbered side for dead or wounded friends.
We had now been encamped and moving, and were hardly making expenses; and this change decided us to take chances.
The wolves did not follow me, nor did I really think they would, yet, I had made such foolish moves for the past two days that I did not wish to take chances on anything any more.
I'll take chances on it," muttered Bruce, giving up quietly.
Many vocations also require a fine blending of prudence with a willingness to take chances and a certain degree of recklessness.
But there are certain classes of work which require a willingness to take chances.
The great tragedy is that this kind of work is often entrusted to men who are so constituted that it is very easy for them to take chances.
He is not disposed to take chances; he is too apprehensive and too much given to anxiety to be involved in any vocation where there is uncertainty as to outcome.
The officer was as good off his wheel as on it, and he speedily established perfect order on his beat, being always willing to "take chances" in getting his man.
It was not a case in which one could afford to take chances, and if he had moved I was about to drop on his ribs with my knees; but he was senseless.
He was always preaching caution to his boys, but in this respect he did not practice his preaching overmuch himself; and, being an excellent whip, he liked to take chances.
Perhaps he realized that the fangs of their enemies were by no means drawn, and deemed it more prudent not to take chances on the strength of his "charmed life.
It was a very long shot,[F] but I had to take chances, for I could not tell whether or not the one I had just shot was accessible or not.
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