And as in the daily casualties of life every man is, as it were, threatened with numberless deaths, so long as it remains uncertain which of them is his fate, I would ask whether it is not better to suffer one and die, than to live in fear of all?

NEWYORKER: The Magic Kingdom

It is obviously better to live with asthma than die from measles.

ECONOMIST: Plagued by cures

Ironically, military enlistees, who must learn to recognize a problem (like, where a bullet is coming from) and then solve it or die, may be better equipped to compete in the real world than their academically oriented brothers and sisters!

FORBES: Building Leaders