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• Although individual temperaments vary, boys are designed to be more assertive, audacious, and excitable than girls are.

  James Dobson

  Girl, Boys, Individual

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• Be audacious and cunning in your plans, firm and persevering in their execution, determined to find a glorious end.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Perseverance, Execution, Determined

  Carl von Clausewitz (1987). “Roots of Strategy: 3 Military Classics”, p.373, Stackpole Books

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• Altogether, Cavalry operations are exceedingly difficult, knowledge of the country is absolutely necessary, and ability to comprehend the situation at a glance, and an audacious spirit, are everything.

  Maurice de Saxe

  Country, Spirit, Operations

  Maurice de Saxe (2012). “Reveries on the Art of War”, p.67, Courier Corporation

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• Think about how audacious it is to really believe in yourself.

  Debbie Ford

  Believe, Thinking, Believe In Yourself

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• Holiness is a disposition of the heart that makes us humble and little in the arms of God, aware of our weakness, and confident - in the most audacious way - in His Fatherly goodness.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Heart, Humble, Arms

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• My love was both humble and audacious, like that of a page for his lady.

  Isak Dinesen

  Humble, Pages

  Isak Dinesen (2011). “Seven Gothic Tales”, p.82, Vintage

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• I have come, Sire, to complain of one of your subjects who has been so audacious as to kick me in the belly.

  Marie Antoinette

  Pregnancy, Complaining, Birth

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• Nasr combines in his writing audacious intellectual criticism, deep understanding of Islam... and a commitment to the Western-European contributions to the emancipation of the human condition.

  Mohammed Arkoun

  Writing, Commitment, Deep Understanding

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• I consider myself something of a raconteur. I have a rather audacious sense of humour.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Humour

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• I rejoice in my spine, as in the firm audacious staff of that flag which I fling half out to the world.

  Herman Melville

  Flags, Half, World

  Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.389, Velvet Element Books

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• I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Book, Reading, Heart

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1873). “Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.453

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• [The imagination] . . . inspires an audacious mental habit. We are as elastic as the gas of gunpowder, and . . . a word dropped in conversation, sets free our fancy, and instantly our heads are bathed with galaxies, and our feet tread the floor of the Pit.

  Marsilio Ficino

  Feet, Imagination, Inspire

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• Marriage is a fierce battle before which the two partners ask heaven for its blessing, because loving each other is the most audacious of enterprises; the battle is not slow to start, and victory, that is to say freedom, goes to the cleverest.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Marriage, Blessing

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• To be audacious with tact, you have to know to what point you can go too far.

  Jean Cocteau

  Manners, Tact, Knows

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• Wear audacious underwear under the most solemn business attire.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Underwear, Attire, Solemn

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.28, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• My ambition has always been to reduce a building's support to a minimum. The more we diminish supporting structures, the more audacious and important the architecture is. That has been my life's work.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Ambition, Support, Important

  "Architect of Optimism". Interview with Angel Gurria-Quintana, www.ft.com. April 13, 2007.

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• I praise God for you, sir: your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, audacious without impudency, learned without opinion, and strange with-out heresy.

  William Shakespeare

  Witty, Learning, Dinner

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson (1765). “The Plays of William Shakespeare in Eight Volumes: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are Added Notes by Sam Johnson”, p.181

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• I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America's most original and courageous political analysts. He has the true 1960s spirit - audacious and irreverent, yet passionately engaged and committed to social change.

  Camille Paglia

  America, Political, Spirit

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• The most radical, audacious thing to think is that there might be some point to working hard and thinking hard and reading hard and writing hard and trying to be of service

  Mark Vonnegut

  Reading, Writing, Thinking

  "Armageddon in Retrospect". Book by Kurt Vonnegut. Introduction by Mark Vonnegut, www.npr.org. 2008.

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• Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart. Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind--these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell. It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Song, Heart, Waiting

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion”, p.174, Macmillan

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• Again and again in history some people wake up. They have no ground in the crowd and move to broader deeper laws. They carry strange customs with them and demand room for bold and audacious action. The future speaks ruthlessly through them. They change the world.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Moving, Law, People

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• Nothing is more audacious than these women when detected; they assume anger, and take courage from the very crime itself.

  Juvenal

  Assuming, Crime

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• Gandalf, dwarves and Mr. Baggins! We are met together in the house of our friend and fellow conspirator, this most excellent and audacious hobbit—may the hair on his toes never fall out!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Fall, Dwarves, Hair

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.11, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Writers spend too much time among dead things. I thought that was profound and actually true, that you're trying to pump life into something that is inanimate. You see what a sort of audacious thing it is to move these sort of imaginary people around in a very stylized and patterned world.

  Martin Amis

  Moving, People, Profound

  "New New Yorker Martin Amis Talks Terrorism, Pornography, Idyllic Brooklyn and American Decline". Interview with David Wallace-Wells, www.vulture.com. July 22, 2012.

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• I know that certain minds would regard as audacious the idea of relating the laws which preside over the play of our organs to those laws which govern inanimate bodies; but, although novel, this truth is none the less incontestable. To hold that the phenomena of life are entirely distinct from the general phenomena of nature is to commit a grave error, it is to oppose the continued progress of science.

  Francois Magendie

  Life, Nature, Science

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