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• Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

  John Cotton Dana

  Inspirational, Education, Appreciation

  John Cotton Dana's remarks on a quotation suitable for inscription on a new building at Newark State College, Union, New Jersey (1912) as quoted in "The New York Times Book Review" (p. 55.), March 5, 1967.

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• And I shall find some girl perhaps, and a better one than you, With eyes as wise, but kindlier, and lips as soft, but true, and I dare say she will do.

  Rupert Brooke

  Love, Break Up, Broken Heart

  Rupert Brooke (2010). “Collected Poems”, p.103, The Oleander Press

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• Books fall open, you fall in, delighted where you've never been; hear voices not once heard before, reach world on world through door on door; find unexpected keys to things locked up beyond imaginings. What might you be, perhaps become, because one book is somewhere? Some wise delver into wisdom, wit, and wherewithal has written it. True books will venture, dare you out, whisper secrets, maybe shout across the gloom to you in need, who hanker for a book to read.

  David McCord

  Education, Wise, Book

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• I cannot understand how God can give to any of His children glory and virtue, but it nevertheless is true that He does.... There is something about believing in God, that makes God willing to pass over a million people just to anoint you. I believe God will always turn out to meet you on a special line if you dare to believe Him.

  Smith Wigglesworth

  Faith, Children, Believe

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• None of us wants to admit that we hate someone... When we deny our hate we detour around the crisis of forgiveness. We suppress our spite, make adjustments, and make believe we are too good to be hateful. But the truth is that we do not dare to risk admitting the hate we feel because we do not dare to risk forgiving the person we hate.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Forgiveness, Hate, Believe

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• Life is not easy for anyone. Sometimes you don't see the challenges on the outside, but every single one of us has both those and everything that goes on inside as well. Give it your all. Dare to be all you can be.

  Hillary Clinton

  Inspiring, Graduation, Giving

  "36 Inspiring Graduation Speeches From Your Fave Celebs" by Kristin Koch, www.seventeen.com. June 11, 2018.

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• Pausing allows you to take a beat to take a breath in your life. As everybody else is rushing around like a lunatic out there, I dare you to do the opposite.

  Maria Shriver

  Inspirational, Graduation, Opposites

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• History is not the story of strangers, aliens from another realm; it is the story of us had we been born a little earlier. History is memory; we have to remember what it is like to be a Roman, or a Jacobite or a Chartist or even - if we dare, and we should dare - a Nazi. History is not abstraction, it is the enemy of abstraction.

  Stephen Fry

  Memories, History, Enemy

  "The future's in the past". www.theguardian.com. July 9, 2006.

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• Treason doth never prosper. What's the reason? Why, when it prospers, none dare call it treason.

  John Harington

  History, Cynical, Politics

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• Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

  Winston Churchill

  Leadership, Dictator, Socialism

  Letter, 11 Nov. 1937, in Step by Step (1939) p. 186. Cf. the proverb "He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount" (see Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs under rides)

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• Old sundial, you stand here for Time: For Love, the vine that round your base, Its tendrils twines, and dares to climb, And lay one flower-capped spray in grace, Without the asking on your cold, Unsmiling and unfrowning face.

  Eleanor Farjeon

  Life, Flower, Grace

  "Pan-Worship: And Other Poems (Time And Love)". Book by Eleanor Farjeon, 1908.

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• Thus Arm in Arm with thee I dare defy my century into the lists.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Life, Arms, Lists

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• In New York I was always so scared of saying that I wrote fiction. It just seemed like, 'Who am I to dare to do that thing here? The epicenter of publishing and writers?' I found all that very intimidating and avoided writing as a response.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  New York, Writing, Fiction

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• The world is nothing, the man is all; in yourself is the law of all nature, and you know not yet how a globule of sap ascends; in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason; it is for you to know all, it is for you to dare all.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Law, Sap

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.69, Harvard University Press

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• Trust firmly in your luck, cling to your happiness, and dare to take risks.

  Rene Char

  Risk, Luck

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• The only way to stop a rebellion is to crush it with blood and fire, and to wound them so they'll never dare to raise a hand again.

  Rachel Caine

  Crush, Fire, Blood

  Rachel Caine (2012). “Bitter Blood: The Morganville Vampires”, p.215, Penguin

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• A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street any more without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Zoos, Animal, Royal

  Igor Stravinsky, Robert Craft (1982). “Dialogues”, p.62, Univ of California Press

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• Part of the heart of anarchy is, dare to go against the grain of the conventional ways of thinking about our realities. Anarchists have always gone against the grain, and that's been a place of hope.

  Bell Hooks

  Heart, Reality, Thinking

  "How Do You Practice Intersectionalism? An Interview with bell hooks". Interview with Randy Lowens, nefac.net. March 15, 2012.

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• I find myself frequently placed where I
  dare give neither assent nor dissent to propositions that are submitted to me;
  for there is danger that any words I may speak shall be reported as something
  that the Lord has given me. It is not always safe for me to express my own
  judgment; for sometimes when someone wishes to carry out his own purpose,
  he will regard any favorable word I may speak as special light from the Lord

  Ellen G. White

  Light, Giving, Special

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• A true brave man is the one who dares to work against personal-interest.

  Khem Veasna

  Men, Brave, Interest

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• You read nothing if you dare not giving any judgement.

  Khem Veasna

  Giving, Judgement, Ifs

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• Dare to be imperfect and one day there will tug at your sleeve a soulmate.

  Robert Breault

  Wise, Soulmate, One Day

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• A million million spermatozoa, All of them alive: Out of their cataclysm but one poor Noah Dare hope to survive.

  Aldous Huxley

  Sex, Alive, Poor

  'Fifth Philosopher's Song' (1920)

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• Perhaps there will be prattlers who, although completely ignorant of mathematics, nevertheless take it upon themselves to pass judgment on mathematical questions, and on account of some passage in Scripture, badly distorted to their purpose, will dare to censure and assail what I have presented here.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  God, Faith, Hope

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• We're saying to anyone who dares to attack us, Do not do it, you couldn't win, the result would be devastating! I think you're saying the same.

  Margaret Thatcher

  War, Winning, Thinking

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