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• I guess you could say I'm cautious, or a coward.

  Namie Amuro

  Coward, Be Cautious

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• The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.

  Stendhal

  Passion, Race, Argument

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• Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Women, People, History

  Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown

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• I thought, I need to be more cautious about my choices - it reflects on who I am.

  Heath Ledger

  Who I Am, Choices, Needs

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• It is better to be adventurous than cautious, because fortune is a woman.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Adventurous, Fortune

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2010). “The Prince”, p.104, FastPencil Inc

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• You have to be cautious of eating continuously the same thing. Beef comes to mind right away, and there's nothing wrong with beef, but you've got to do whatever you're doing in moderation. So try to break it up a little bit. Eat some fish or some shellfish at least a couple of times a week.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Couple, Mind, Trying

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• Let us be cautious in making assertions and critical in examining them, but tolerant in permitting linguistic forms.

  Rudolf Carnap

  Tolerance, Examination, Form

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• My mom was always really healthy and cautious about her diet, so I'm not a big sugar guy.

  Paul Walker

  Mom, Guy, Healthy

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• He that is over-cautious will accomplish but very little.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Littles, Accomplish

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• You can be cautious or you can be creative, but there’s no such thing as a Cautious Creative.

  George Lois

  Creative, Be Creative, Be Cautious

  "Author Q&A with George Lois: Damn Good Advice". Interview with Steve Kroeter, www.designersandbooks.com. May 3, 2012.

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• Beware the fury of a patient man.

  John Dryden

  Inspirational, Christian, Wise

  'Absalom and Achitophel' (1681) pt. 1, l. 1005

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• As I slowly grow wise I briskly grow cautious.

  Mark Twain

  Wise, Grows

  Mark Twain “Mark Twain on Religion”, Library of Alexandria

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• So many people there are in politics that they're overly cautious about laughing at stuff. They're so damned concerned about what everyone else is thinking. What are they worried about? Nobody ever walked into a show as a bleeding heart liberal and had a comedian undo 30 years of life experience.

  Bill Burr

  Heart, Thinking, Years

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• A philosophical mythology lies concealed in language, which breaks out again at every moment, no matter how cautious we may be.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Philosophical, Break Out

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• A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Real, Patriotic, Issues

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• Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Reform, World, Women's Suffrage

  Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown

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• There's an importance of keeping an open mind. The brain is programmed to protect us, and that can mean imposing limits on what it thinks we can or should do. Constantly push at those limits, because the brain can be way too cautious.

  Chrissie Wellington

  Motivational, Giving Up, Don't Give Up

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• First of all, in terms of investment in Internet-related developments, venture capitalists - once burned - are now very cautious and are investing in areas that actually make business sense.

  Vinton Cerf

  Entrepreneur, Decision, Investing

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• Our cautious ancestors, when yawning, blocked the way to the entrance of evil spirits by putting their hands before their mouths. We find a reason for the gesture in the delicacy of manner which forbids an indecent exposure.

  George H. Mead

  Yawning, Hands, Evil

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• I am a cautious pilgrim of the night, a tentative wanderer among the stars. My awareness of my home in the universe is fleeting and incomplete. Into the homeless home of the sun-faced buddha I have stepped but briefly. My quest, such as it is, is rewarded with faint lights and scrawny cries, a trait here and trait there, a hint of the infinite and a tingle in the spine. Of "minute particulars" I will make my way.

  Chet Raymo

  Stars, Home, Night

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• We are optimistic, but we are optimistic in a cautious fashion.

  Tom Lantos

  Fashion, Optimistic, Be Cautious

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• In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

  Blaise Pascal

  Past, Decision, Looks

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.168, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I think every band is a little cautious when the drummer starts to write tunes.

  Matt Cameron

  Writing, Thinking, Tunes

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• Let's be cautious about dreaming up extreme scenarios. The situation in Iraq is still salvageable.

  Rand Beers

  Dream, Iraq, Situation

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• There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.

  Stephen Hawking

  Science, Law, Optimism

  Stephen W. Hawking (2003). “The Illustrated Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe”, New Millenium

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