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• Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the belief it inspires is what counts.

  Philip Roth

  Inspire, Literature, Belief

  Philip Roth, George John Searles (1992). “Conversations with Philip Roth”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• This is America, This vast, confused beauty, This staring, restless speed of loveliness, Mighty, overwhelming, crude, of all forms, Making grandeur out of profusion, Afraid of no incongruities, Sublime in its audacity, Bizarre breaker of moulds.

  Amy Lowell

  Confused, America, Sublime

  Amy Lowell (1955). “Complete poetical works: With an introd. by Louis Untermeyer”

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• We have the audacity to look God in the face and say, 'No.'

  David Platt

  Looks, Faces

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• I loved the audacity of that American principle which says. When life gets tainted or goes stale, junk it! Leave it behind! Go West!

  Jonathan Raban

  Junk, Principles, West

  Jonathan Raban (1981). “Old Glory, an American Voyage”, Simon & Schuster

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• From Obama's book, "The Audacity of Hope:" "I am not willing to have the state deny American citizens a civil union that confers equivalent rights on such basic matters as hospital visitation or health insurance coverage simply because the people they love are of the same sex - nor am I willing to accept a reading of the Bible that considers an obscure line in Romans to be more defining of Christianity than the Sermon on the Mount."

  Barack Obama

  Sex, Book, Reading

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• Any time you demonstrate against segregation and a man has the audacity to put a police dog on you, kill that dog, kill him, I'm telling you, kill that dog. I say it if they put me in jail tomorrow, kill that dog. Then you'll put a stop to it.

  Malcolm X

  Dog, Men, Jail

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• In placid hours well-pleased we dream Of many a brave unbodied scheme. But form to lend, pulsed life create, What unlike things must meet and mate: A flame to melt--a wind to freeze; Sad patience--joyous energies; Humility--yet pride and scorn; Instinct and study; love and hate; Audacity--reverence. These must mate, And fuse with Jacob's mystic heart, To wrestle with the angel--Art.

  Herman Melville

  Dream, Art, Hate

  Herman Melville, Robert C. Ryan, Hershel Parker (2009). “Published Poems: The Writings of Herman Melville”, p.280, Northwestern University Press

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• We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. ... The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Spiritual, Long, Moral

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1997). “Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays”, p.7, Macmillan

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• I am delighted, one more time, by the daring of my species and the audacity of our flying machines. There is poetry and music in our technology, a beauty as touching as that of eagle, moss campion, raven or yonder limestone boulder shining under the Arctic sun.

  Edward Abbey

  Technology, Eagles, Ravens

  Edward Abbey (1984). “Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside”, p.164, Macmillan

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• Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one. What is most repellent in the System of Nature - after the recipe for making eels from flour - is the audacity with which it decides that there is no God, without even having tried the impossibility. If God did not exist, he would have to be invented." But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.

  Baron d'Holbach

  Order, Eels, Doubt

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• Our audacity to rise from our losses makes Nigeria the number one footballing nation in Africa!

  Stephen Keshi

  Loss, Numbers, Nations

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• What I want to know is how the white man, with the blood of black people dripping off his fingers, can have the audacity to be asking black people [why] they hate him?

  Malcolm X

  Hate, Men, White Man

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• The skyscrapers began to rise again, frailly massive, elegantly utilitarian, images in their grace, audacity and inconclusiveness, of the whole character of the people who produces them.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  New York, Character, People

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• In her inestimable audacity, Julia was the catalyst in my life for something beautiful. I hadn't anticipated her-hadn't even wanted her, truthfully-but there she was. A little something extra that made all the difference in the world.

  Cathleen Falsani

  Love, Beautiful, Differences

  Cathleen Falsani (2008). “Sin Boldly: A Field Guide for Grace”, p.187, Zondervan

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• We live in a wondrous time in which the strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Strong, Moral, Weak

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• The audacity to love. Do you know what a gift that is?

  Laini Taylor

  Knows, Do You Know

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• There was never one who came into the world with such loving compassion and who entered into all the needs of the people as did the Lord Jesus. And he declares to us, 'Verily, verily, I say unto you he that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do, because I go unto my father.' [Jn 14.12] God wants us all to have an audacity of faith that dares to believe for all that is set forth in the word.

  Smith Wigglesworth

  Jesus, Father, Believe

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• Luckily, unreasonable expectations go hand in hand with naive young scientists. The more naive the better - otherwise we would never have the audacity to try and build a 22,000-mile-high space elevator or some sprawling underwater hotel.

  Daniel H. Wilson

  Hands, Space, Expectations

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• All comedians are a bit attention-seeking and I'm no different. Anyone with the audacity to want to be listened to for an hour and a half must be.

  Jimmy Carr

  Comedian, Different, Attention

  "The Razz: Jimmy's Brent on Being Funny". The Daily Record, February 28, 2004.

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• Hypocrisy is the audacity to preach integrity from a den of corruption.

  Wes Fesler

  Integrity, Hypocrisy, Corruption

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• Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates their plodding critics. As only those who dare to make mistakes succeed greatly, only those who shake free the wings of their imagination brush, once in a way, the secrets of the great pale world. If such writers go wrong, it is not for the mere brains to tell them so

  Gertrude Atherton

  Mistake, Wings, People

  Gertrude Atherton (2012). “The Bell in the Fog: And Other Stories”, p.21, The Floating Press

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• Anything can happen: anything. Or nothing. Who can say? The world, monstrous, is made that way, and in the end consumes us all. Who am I, administrated or no, to have the audacity to survive it?

  Brian Evenson

  World, Way, Ends

  Brian Evenson (2009). “Fugue State”, Coffee House Pr

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• Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. What are now working conceptions, employed as a matter of course because they have withstood the tests of experiment and have emerged triumphant, were once speculative hypotheses.

  John Dewey

  Science, Imagination, Tests

  William James, John Dewey, John M. Capps, Donald Capps (2005). “James and Dewey on Belief and Experience”, p.212, University of Illinois Press

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• This beginning with Audacity, or being thrown into the middle of it, is already a very great part of the art of painting.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspiring, Art, New Beginnings

  "Thoughts and Adventures".

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• [Buddhism and Christianity] are in one sense parallel and equal; as a mound and a hollow, as a valley and a hill. There is a sense in which that sublime despair is the only alternative to that divine audacity. It is even true that the truly spiritual and intellectual man sees it as sort of dilemma; a very hard and terrible choice. There is little else on earth that can compare with these for completeness. And he who does not climb the mountain of Christ does indeed fall into the abyss of Buddha.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Spiritual, Fall, Buddhism

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