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• Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.

  Anthony Trollope

  Men, Virtue, Wooing

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Phineas Redux: Trollope's Works”, p.223, 谷月社

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• Because there are 7 billion 47 million people on the planet
  And I have the audacity to think I matter
  I know it's a lie but I prefer it to the alternative

  George Watsky

  Lying, Thinking, People

  Song: Tiny Glowing Screens, Part 2, Album: Cardboard Castles, 2013

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• Impetuosity and audacity often achieve what ordinary means fail to achieve.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Mean, Ordinary, Failing

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• In an election, one needs both hope and audacity.

  Francois Hollande

  Needs, Election

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• In war nothing is impossible, provided you use audacity.

  George S. Patton

  War, Use, Impossible

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• We must err , do so on the side of audacity

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Sides

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• Audacity succeeds as often as it fails; in life it has an even chance.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Succeed, Chance, Failing

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• Audacity, and again, audacity, and always audacity.

  Georges Danton

  Adventure

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• All too often, it is audacity and not talent that moves an artist to center stage.

  Julia Cameron

  Moving, Artist, Talent

  Julia Cameron (2002). “The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.61, Penguin

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• Self-definition and self-determination is about the many varied decisions that we make to compose and journey toward ourselves, about the audacity and strength to proclaim, create, and evolve into who we know ourselves to be. It’s okay if your personal definition is in a constant state of flux as you navigate the world.

  Janet Mock

  Determination, Journey, Self

  Janet Mock (2014). “Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

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• The only way we really create change is to enter any situation with the humility to listen and to recognize the world as it is, and then the audacity to dream what it could be.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Dream, Humility, Way

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• Audacity, always audacity - soundest principal of strategy.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Strategy, Principal

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• Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.

  Tacitus

  Political, Politics, Crime

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• It is often in the audacity, in the steadfastness, of the general that the safety and the conservation of his men is found.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Safety, Conservation

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• audacity is of all qualities the most youthful.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Risk, Quality, Youth

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• If you defy the system long enough you'll be rewarded. At first life takes revenge and reduces you to a sniveling mess. But keep sniveling, have the madness, the audacity, to do what interests you, forget about your pension, and eventually life will say all right, we'll let you do it.

  Jo Coudert

  Revenge, Long, Risk

  Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.265, iUniverse

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• Audacity isn't the absence of uncertainty and ambiguity. Audacity is believing that God's promise is bigger than my 'perhaps'

  Steven Furtick

  Believe, Promise, Absence

  Steven Furtick (2013). “Sun Stand Still Devotional: A Forty-Day Experience to Activate Your Faith”, p.32, Multnomah

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• To reinvent your own country you need a great audacity of hope.

  Jürgen Moltmann

  Country, Needs, Audacity Of Hope

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• The Flapper awoke from her lethargy of sub-deb-ism, bobbed her hair, put on her choicest pair of earrings and a great deal of audacity and rouge and went into the battle. She flirted because it was fun to flirt and wore a one-piece bathing suit because she had a good figure she was conscious that the things she did were the things she had always wanted to do. Mothers disapproved of their sons taking the Flapper to dances, to teas, to swim and most of all to heart.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Mother, Fun, Heart

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• Artists love other artists.  Shadow artists are gravitating to their rightful tribe but cannot yet claim their birthright.  Very often audacity, not talent, makes one person an artist and another a shadow artist-hiding in the shadows, afraid to step out and expose the dream to the light, fearful that it will disintegrate to the touch.

  Julia Cameron

  Dream, Artist, Light

  Julia Cameron (2002). “The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.54, Penguin

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• There are some power-abusing, corrupt monsters in our federal government that despise me because I have the audacity to speak the truth.

  Ted Nugent

  Government, Monsters, Speak

  "Ted Nugent Calls Himself 'A Black Jew at Nazi-Klan Rally,' Stands by Obama Beheading Statement" by Jordan Zakarin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 18, 2012.

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• Then they have the audacity to go shopping and pick out their own gifts. I want to know who the first person was who said this was okay. After spending all that money on a bachelorette weekend, a shower, and often a flight across the country, they expect you to go to Williams Sonoma or Pottery Barn and do research? Then they send you a thank-you note applauding you for such a thoughtful gift. They're the one who picked it out!

  Chelsea Handler

  Country, Weekend, Thoughtful

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• When I had no roof I made audacity my roof.

  Robert Pinsky

  Made, Roof

  Robert Pinsky (2015). “Jersey Rain: Poems”, p.5, Macmillan

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• Pulling out his daggers, he kept them in his sleeves, just in case he happened upon someone who wouldn’t understand why a tall, dark-haired man wearing really dark sunglasses and unseasonably warm clothing would be armed to his fangs. Really, Officer, I was trying to protect humanity by killing these things that suck human souls out to live past their twenty-seventh birthday just didn’t cut it. Why no one would believe that, he couldn’t imagine. Really, the audacity of modern courts and judges.’ – Sundown

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Believe, Cutting, Dark

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “Retribution”, p.29, Hachette UK

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• All miracles are promised to faith, and what is faith except the audacity of will which does not hesitate in the darkness, but advances towards the light in spite of all ordeals, and surmounting all obstacles?

  Eliphas Levi

  Light, Miracle, Darkness

  Eliphas Levi (2013). “The Doctrine of Transcendental Magic”, p.17, Jazzybee Verlag

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