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• Peter was filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the Word with boldness. Even when threatened with punishment, he said that he could not help but share the things he had seen and heard.

  David Jeremiah

  Punishment, Spirit, Helping

  David Jeremiah (2011). “Signs of Life: Back to the Basics of Authentic Christianity”, p.61, Thomas Nelson

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• He is wisest, who only gives, True to himself, the best he can: Who drifting on the winds of praise, The inward monitor obeys. And with the boldness that confuses fear Takes in the crowded sail, and lets his conscience steer.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Fear, Wind, Giving

  John Greenleaf Whittier, “The Grave By The Lake”

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• Try to begin things you feel you can do. To begin is enough-there is a boldness in beginning. And in boldness lies genius and magic.

  Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

  Lying, Writing, Magic

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• Question with boldness, hold to the truth, and speak without fear.

  Glenn Beck

  Speak

  David Barton, Glenn Beck (2012). “The Jefferson Lies: Exposing the Myths You've Always Believed about Thomas Jefferson”, p.8, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The most practical teaching of the Gita, and one for which it is of abiding interest and value to the men of the world with whom life is a series of struggles, is not to give way to any morbid sentimentality when duty demands sternness and the boldness to face terrible things.

  Bal Gangadhar Tilak

  Struggle, Teaching, Men

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• Let us be today's Christians. Let us not take fright at the boldness of today's church. With Christ's light let us illuminate even the most hideous caverns of the human person: torture, jail, plunder, want, chronic illness. The oppressed must be saved, not with a revolutionary salvation, in mere human fashion, but with the holy revolution of the Son of Man, who dies on the cross to cleanse God's image, which is soiled in today's humanity, a humanity so enslaved, so selfish, so sinful.

  Oscar Romero

  Christian, Fashion, Selfish

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• Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies.

  George Whitefield

  Spiritual, Fighting, Giving

  George Whitefield, Samuel Dres, Joseph Smith (1841). “Sermons on important subjects”, p.131

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• I think I developed a culture of healthy skepticism of claims of certainty on any side of the aisle. A sort of boldness in using economics no matter where it leads you in political circles, you know, rather than worrying about being left-wing or right-wing or biased or this or that.

  David Plotz

  Thinking, Circles, Wings

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Beware when any idea is promoted primarily because it is "bold, exciting, innovative, and new." There are many ideas that are "bold, exciting, innovative and new," but also foolish.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Ideas, Foolish, Exciting

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• Every month we do a bold adventure. This is the golden age of space exploration.

  Charles Elachi

  Adventure, Space, Age

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• Writing objects to the lie that life is small. Writing is a cell of energy. Writing defines itself. Writing draws its viewer in for longer than an instant. Writing exhibits boldness. Writing restores power to exalt, unnerve, shock, and transform us. Writing does not imitate life, it anticipates life.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Lying, Writing, Cells

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• Darwin was not afraid to look deeply into the void. His bold view can be seen as either noble and pessimistic or noble and admirable. For people of science, he is a hero. Denying man a privileged place in creation, .. he reaffirms with his own intellectual courage the dignity of man.

  Primo Levi

  Hero, Men, Views

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• The first symptom of true love in a man is timidity, in a young woman, boldness. This is surprising, and yet nothing is more simple. It is the two sexes tending to approach each other and assuming each the other's qualities.

  Victor Hugo

  Sex, Simple, Men

  Victor Hugo (2015). “Les Misérables”, p.1167, Booklassic

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• A man must have a good deal of vanity who believes, and a good deal of boldness who affirms, that all the doctrines he holds are true, and all he rejects are false.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Believe, Men, Vanity

  Benjamin Franklin, Walter Isaacson (2003). “A Benjamin Franklin Reader”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

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• On the rare occasions when our dreams succeed and achieve perfection - most dreams are bungled - the are symbolic chains of scene and images in place of a narrative poetic language; they circumscribe our experiences or expectations or situations with such poetic boldness and decisiveness that in the morning we are always amazed when we remember our dreams.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dream, Morning, Expectations

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• Many teachers think of children as immature adults. It might lead to better and more 'respectful' teaching, if we thought of adults as atrophied children.

  Keith Johnstone

  Teacher, Children, Teaching

  Keith Johnstone (1981). “Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre”, p.78, Routledge

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• The boldness of his mind was sheathed in a scabbard of politeness.

  Dumas Malone

  Mind, Politeness

  Dumas Malone (1951). “Jefferson and His Time: Jefferson and the rights of man”

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• Risk-taking, trust, and serendipity are key ingredients of joy. Without risk, nothing new ever happens. Without trust, fear creeps in. Without serendipity, there are no surprises.

  Rita Gelman

  Inspirational, Keys, Joy

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• Boldness governed by superior intellect is the mark of a hero.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Hero, Mark, Intellect

  Carl von Clausewitz (2008). “On War”, p.192, Princeton University Press

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• Remember, if you do the things you ought to do when you ought to do them, then someday you can do the things you want to do when you want to do them…Whatever you do or dream you can do—begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Dream, Magic, Genius

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• All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.

  W. H. Murray

  Commitment, Misunderstood, Genius

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• Now is the moment in the timetable of the Lord to carry the gospel farther than it has ever been carried before.... Many a person in this world is crying, knowingly and unknowingly, 'Come over ... and help us.' He might be your neighbor. She might be your friend. He might be a relative. She might be someone you met only yesterday. But we have what they need. Let us take new courage from our studies and pray, as did Peter, 'And now, Lord, ... grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word'

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Yesterday, Missionary, Needs

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• Hear me declare with boldness, I am a Christian.

  Polycarp

  Christian

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• One of the special marks of the Holy Ghost in the Apostolic Church was the spirit of boldness.

  A. B. Simpson

  Apostolic Church, Special, Spirit

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• Surround yourself with doers. Be around people who demonstrate thier boldness.

  Wayne Dyer

  Graduation, People, Doers

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