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• Let us be today's Christians. Let us not take fright at the boldness of today's church. With Christ's light let us illuminate even the most hideous caverns of the human person: torture, jail, plunder, want, chronic illness. The oppressed must be saved, not with a revolutionary salvation, in mere human fashion, but with the holy revolution of the Son of Man, who dies on the cross to cleanse God's image, which is soiled in today's humanity, a humanity so enslaved, so selfish, so sinful.

  Oscar Romero

  Christian, Fashion, Selfish

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• Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies.

  George Whitefield

  Spiritual, Fighting, Giving

  George Whitefield, Samuel Dres, Joseph Smith (1841). “Sermons on important subjects”, p.131

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• Every month we do a bold adventure. This is the golden age of space exploration.

  Charles Elachi

  Adventure, Space, Age

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• Concerning all acts of initiative there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too.

  Steven Pressfield

  Moving, Ignorance, Commitment

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• I believe in clear-cut positions. I think that the most arrogant position is this apparent, multidisciplinary modesty of "what I am saying now is not unconditional, it is just a hypothesis," and so on. It really is a most arrogant position. I think that the only way to be honest and expose yourself to criticism is to state clearly and dogmatically where you are. You must take the risk and have a position.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Believe, Commitment, Cutting

  "Conversations with Žižek". Book by Slavoj Žižek and Glyn Daly, 2004.

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• Beware when any idea is promoted primarily because it is "bold, exciting, innovative, and new." There are many ideas that are "bold, exciting, innovative and new," but also foolish.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Ideas, Foolish, Exciting

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• Fortune reveres the brave, and overwhelms the cowardly.

  Seneca the Elder

  Courage, Brave, Fortune

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• There are tonalities which are noble and others which are vulgar, harmonies which are calm or consoling, and others which are exciting because of their boldness.

  Paul Gauguin

  Noble, Calm, Harmony

  Paul Gauguin (1955). “An Exhibition of Paintings, Engravings & Sculpture [by] Gauguin”

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• A minister, without boldness, is like a smooth file, a knife without an edge, a sentinel that is afraid to let off his gun. If men will be bold in sin, ministers must be bold to reprove.

  William Gurnall

  Gun, Men, Knives

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• Darwin was not afraid to look deeply into the void. His bold view can be seen as either noble and pessimistic or noble and admirable. For people of science, he is a hero. Denying man a privileged place in creation, .. he reaffirms with his own intellectual courage the dignity of man.

  Primo Levi

  Hero, Men, Views

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• I think I developed a culture of healthy skepticism of claims of certainty on any side of the aisle. A sort of boldness in using economics no matter where it leads you in political circles, you know, rather than worrying about being left-wing or right-wing or biased or this or that.

  David Plotz

  Thinking, Circles, Wings

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Uncertainty as to our relationship to God is one of the most enfeebling and dispiriting of things. It makes a man heartless. It takes the pith out of him. He cannot fight; he cannot run. He is easily dismayed, and gives way. He can do nothing for God.

  Horatius Bonar

  Running, Fighting, Men

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• Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, the providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favour all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way.

  W. H. Murray

  Inspirational, Commitment, Political

  "The Scottish Himalaya Expedition". Book by W. H. Murray, 1951.

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• If heaven were by merit, it would never be heaven to me, for if I were in it I should say, "I am sure I am here by mistake; I am sure this is not my place; I have no claim to it." But if it be of grace and not of works, then we may walk into heaven with boldness.

  Charles Spurgeon

  God, Faith, Christian

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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• Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.

  Francis Bacon

  Absurdity

  Francis Bacon, Brian Vickers (1996). “The Major Works”, p.362, Oxford University Press, USA

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• A man must have a good deal of vanity who believes, and a good deal of boldness who affirms, that all the doctrines he holds are true, and all he rejects are false.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Believe, Men, Vanity

  Benjamin Franklin, Walter Isaacson (2003). “A Benjamin Franklin Reader”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

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• Owls are wise. They are careful and patient. Wisdom precludes boldness. That is why owls make poor heroes.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Wise, Hero, Owl

  Patrick Rothfuss (2010). “The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:”, p.514, Hachette UK

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• The fear of the Lord tends to take away all other fears... This is the secret of Christian courage and boldness.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Christian, Secret, Lord

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• The first symptom of true love in a man is timidity, in a young woman, boldness. This is surprising, and yet nothing is more simple. It is the two sexes tending to approach each other and assuming each the other's qualities.

  Victor Hugo

  Sex, Simple, Men

  Victor Hugo (2015). “Les Misérables”, p.1167, Booklassic

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• Nature hath given not only to the highest, but also to the inferior, classes of the people of this nation, a boldness and confidence in speaking and answering, even in the presence of their princes and chieftains.

  Gerald of Wales

  Class, People, Given

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• People who ask confidently get more than those who are hesitant and uncertain. When you've figured out what you want to ask for, do it with certainty, boldness and confidence.

  Jack Canfield

  Motivational, Positive, Confidence

  FaceBook post by Jack Canfield from Mar 06, 2012

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• Little boldness is needed to assail the opinions and practices of notoriously wicked men; but to rebuke great and good men for their conduct, and to impeach their discernment, is the highest effort of moral courage.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Integrity, Men, Practice

  William Lloyd Garrison (1832). “Thoughts on African Colonization: Or an Impartial Exhibition of the Doctrines, Principles and Purposes of the American Colonization Society. Together with the Resolutions, Addresses and Remonstrances of the Free People of Color”, p.6

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• To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but of great boldness of imagination.

  Virginia Woolf

  Art, Imagination, Perception

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “The Common Reader”, p.375, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Union in privacy (with one's wife); boldness; storing away useful items; watchfulness; and not easily trusting others; these five things are to be learned from a crow.

  Chanakya

  Wife, Crow, Unions

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• Remember, if you do the things you ought to do when you ought to do them, then someday you can do the things you want to do when you want to do them…Whatever you do or dream you can do—begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Dream, Magic, Genius

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