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Age considers; youth ventures.

Rabindranath Tagore

Inspirational, Age, Youth

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Before the commercial ventures, Linux tended to be rather hard to set up, because most of the developers were motivated mainly by their own interests.

Linus Torvalds

Linux, Economy, Motivated

"Linux's Linus Torvalds Interview". Interview with Hiroo Yamagata, www.drdobbs.com. January 1, 2002.

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What we are trying to do is to create a social business in Bangladesh, a joint venture to create restaurants for common people. Good, healthy food at affordable prices so that people don't have to opt for food that is unhealthy and unhygienic.

Muhammad Yunus

People, Healthy, Trying

Interview with Neha Thirani, www.thedailystar.net. February 24, 2012.

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Scientists must venture outside their comfort zones to show the public how cool - and how important - their work really is.

Francis Collins

Important, Comfort, Scientist

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Very, very few entrepreneurs who accept a 51 percent partner in a new venture will get rich if they are also expected to run it. Control is mandatory.

Felix Dennis

Running, New Ventures, Entrepreneur

Felix Dennis (2011). “The Narrow Road: A Brief Guide to the Getting of Money”, p.31, Penguin

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America is the greatest engine of innovation that has ever existed, and it can't be duplicated anytime soon, because it is the product of a multitude of factors: extreme freedom of thought, an emphasis on independent thinking, a steady immigration of new minds, a risk-taking culture with no stigma attached to trying and failing, a noncorrupt bureaucracy, and financial markets and a venture capital system that are unrivaled at taking new ideas and turning them into global products.

Thomas Friedman

Independent, Thinking, Ideas

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Pan, who and what art thou?" he cried huskily. "I'm youth, I'm joy," Peter answered at a venture, "I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

James M. Barrie

Art, Eggs, Broken

James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.135, Jazzybee Verlag

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Since, in the long run, every planetary society will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring — not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive.

Carl Sagan

Running, Responsibility, Space

"Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space".

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You know, development sometimes is viewed as a project in which you give people things and nothing much happens, which is perfectly valid, but if you just focus on that, then you'd also have to say that venture capital is pretty stupid, too. Its hit rate is pathetic. But occasionally, you get successes, you fund a Google or something, and suddenly venture capital is vaunted as the most amazing field of all time. Our hit rate in development is better than theirs, but we should strive to make it better.

Bill Gates

Stupid, People, Giving

"Bill Gates: The Rolling Stone Interview". Interview with Jeff Goodell, www.rollingstone.com. March 13, 2014.

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When the venture has been made of dealing with historical events and characters, it always seems fair towards the reader to avow what liberties have been taken, and how much of the sketch is founded on history.

Charlotte Mary Yonge

Taken, Character, Historical

Charlotte Mary Yonge (2015). “Delphi Complete Novels of Charlotte Mary Yonge (Illustrated)”, p.7498, Delphi Classics

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Every start on an untrodden path is a venture which only in unusual circumstances looks sensible and likely to succeed.

Albert Schweitzer

Motivational, Coaching, Looks

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I continued with whatever 'qualified climbers' I could con into this rather unpromising venture.

Warren G. Harding

Climbing, Qualified, Climbers

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It doesn’t much matter what line of argument you take as a woman. If you venture into traditional male territory, the abuse comes anyway. It’s not what you say that prompts it -
it’s the fact that you are saying it.

Mary Beard

Abuse, Males, Lines

"The Troll Slayer" by Rebecca Mead, www.newyorker.com. September 1, 2014.

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Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

John Bradshaw

Children, Risk, World

John Bradshaw (2013). “Creating Love: A New Way of Understanding Our Most Important Relationships”, p.115, Bantam

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The only way to know whats possible is to venture past impossible.

Mary Gaitskill

Past, Way, Impossible

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But I feel convinced, and I venture even to prophesy in this regard, that the time will come when there will also be a minister of peace in the cabinet, seated beside the ministers of war.

Fredrik Bajer

War, Literature, Cabinets

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Of all the joint ventures in which we might engage, the most productive, in my view, is educational exchange. I have always had great difficulty-since the initiation of the Fulbright scholarships in 1946-in trying to find the words that would persuasively explain that educational exchange is not merely one of those nice but marginal activities in which we engage in international affairs, but rather, from the standpoint of future world peace and order, probably the most important and potentially rewarding of our foreign-policy activities.

J. William Fulbright

Nice, Educational, Views

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Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire that urged adventurers of old to set forth in their sailing-ships for foreign lands.

Jean Batten

Travel, Ocean, Airplane

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That's the beauty of starting lines: Until you begin a new venture, you never know what awaits you.

Amby Burfoot

Running, New Ventures, Lines

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I may venture to say, loosely, that in Judo there is a sort of counter for every twist, wrench, pull, push or bend. Only the Judo expert does not oppose such movements at all. No, he yields to them. But he does much more than yield to them. He aids them with a wicked sleight that causes the assailant to put out his own shoulder, to fracture his own arm, or in a desparate case, even to break his own neck or back.

Lafcadio Hearn

Yield, Wicked, Experts

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Service to a just cause rewards the worker with more real happiness and satisfaction than any other venture of life.

Carrie Chapman Catt

Life, Happiness, Real

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Working in the context of ultra-famous brands like Dior and Vuitton, creative spirits are always going to feel reined in. It's important that they are free to develop ideas. And rather than detracting from the principal job, it reinforces it. I think of that money as venture capital. It's not a big investment.

Bernard Arnault

Leadership, Jobs, Freedom

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Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it.

Giorgio Vasari

Beautiful, Teacher, Art

Giorgio Vasari (1963). “The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors, and Architects”, London : Dent ; New York : Dutton

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Jamestown colony, when it was first founded as a socialist venture, dang near failed with everybody dead and dying in the snow.

Dick Armey

Snow, Dying, Jamestown

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I can think of numberless males, from Bonnard to Callahan, who have photographed their lovers and spouses, but I am having trouble finding parallel examples among my sister photographers. The act of looking appraisingly at a man, making eye contact on the street, asking to photograph him, studying his body, has always been a brazen venture for a woman, though, for a man, these acts are commonplace, even expected.

Sally Mann

Eye, Men, Thinking

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