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

  Francois Hollande

  Needs, Election

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

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Mean, Ordinary, Failing

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• I think that when you have audacity, you will get polarization.

  Lee Daniels

  Thinking, Polarization

  "Lee Daniels Makes It Personal". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 5, 2012.

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

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Sides

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

  George S. Patton

  War, Use, Impossible

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• audacity is of all qualities the most youthful.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Risk, Quality, Youth

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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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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• 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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• All I asked was that I be spared surprises, although, in this world of six billion souls, all acting with free will and too many with audacity, surprises are inevitable, too few of them are the kind that make you smile and that lift your heart.

  Dean Koontz

  Heart, Soul, Make You Smile

  Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.1013, Bantam

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• Blue Boy proves that if you don't quite fit in, then you might as well stand out with as much wit, color and audacity as you can muster.

  Josh Kilmer-Purcell

  Boys, Blue, Color

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• Barack Obama said yesterday that the economy was 'going to get worse before it gets better.' See, that's when you know the campaign is really over. Remember before the election? 'The audacity of hope!' 'Yes, we can!' 'A change we can believe in!' Now it's, 'We're all screwed.'

  Jay Leno

  Believe, Yes We Can, Yesterday

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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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• I know that if I ever have the audacity to blame fate or God for holding a gun to my temple, I also have the wherewithal to remind myself that if I end up with a hole in my head, I was the one who pulled the trigger.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Fate, Gun, Temples

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.140, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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

  Jürgen Moltmann

  Country, Needs, Audacity Of Hope

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• As far as I was concerned, the Panthers were 'baaaaaad.' The Party was more than bad; it was bodacious. The sheer audacity of walking onto the California Senate floor with rifles, demanding that Black people have the right to bear arms and the right to self-defense, made me sit back and take a long look at them.

  Assata Shakur

  Party, Self, California

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