A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.
Antibiotics have serious adverse reactions: diarrhea, anaphylaxis, allergies, rashes. We don't give these medications without discussing the risks and benefits and only when they're properly indicated.
However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe - that is, software that behaves reasonably under adverse conditions.
A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself.
We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
I can be affectionate about a lot of things without watching them.
You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.
I love being able to be political without any political affiliation.
Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.
I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits.
I do read licenses, and they aggravate me, but a computer isn't much good without software. When I need a product, I hold my nose and click 'agree.'
I couldn't have been a great goalkeeper without power, agility and quickness.
Isn't an agnostic just an atheist without balls?
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
You can like somebody without agreeing with all of their policies.
There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing.
You can't be elected president without passing though Iowa and bowing down before corn-based ethanol, before agricultural subsidies. I mean, even McCain was a critic of ethanol, but when he got to Iowa, he was singing a different tune.
Without electricity, the air would rot.
Without books, we might just melt into the airwaves and be just another set of blips.
