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• To venture into space we must be strong-willed and determined. We must be fully committed to its exploration and discovery; space permits no half measures and is unforgiving of mistakes.

  Henry Joy McCracken

  Being Strong, Mistake, Discovery

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• We have crushed the whole force which dared to venture there. They were on the runway at Saddam International Airport. That force was crushed

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Airports

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• For each one of you, as for the apostles, the encounter with the divine Teacher who calls you friends may be the beginning of an extraordinary venture: that of becoming apostles among your contemporaries to lead them to live their own experience of friendship with God, made Man, with God who has made himself my friend.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Teacher, Men, Encounters

  Address to the participants of the international congress «UNIV 2006», w2.vatican.va. April 10, 2006.

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• [P]olitical and social and scientific values ... should be correlated in some relation of movement that could be expressed in mathematics, nor did one care in the least that all the world said it could not be done, or that one knew not enough mathematics even to figure a formula beyond the schoolboy s=(1/2)gt2. If Kepler and Newton could take liberties with the sun and moon, an obscure person ... could take liberties with Congress, and venture to multiply its attraction into the square of its time. He had only to find a value, even infinitesimal, for its attraction.

  Henry Adams

  Science, Moon, Squares

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• Pan, who and what art thou?" he cried huskily. "I'm youth, I'm joy," Peter answered at a venture, "I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

  James M. Barrie

  Art, Eggs, Broken

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.135, Jazzybee Verlag

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• America is the greatest engine of innovation that has ever existed, and it can't be duplicated anytime soon, because it is the product of a multitude of factors: extreme freedom of thought, an emphasis on independent thinking, a steady immigration of new minds, a risk-taking culture with no stigma attached to trying and failing, a noncorrupt bureaucracy, and financial markets and a venture capital system that are unrivaled at taking new ideas and turning them into global products.

  Thomas Friedman

  Independent, Thinking, Ideas

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• For myself, if I am to stake all I have and hope to be upon anything, I will venture it upon the abounding fullness of God - upon the assurance that, as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are His ways higher than our ways, and His thoughts than our thoughts.

  Henry Norris Russell

  Heaven, Earth, Way

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• A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss... That's the trade-off. But I'll take it all.

  Brad Pitt

  Family, Loss, Trade

  "Brad Pitt Is Finally 'Satisfied'". Interview with Dotson Rader, parade.com. September 15, 2011.

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• I keep anywhere between 5-10 percent of my net worth in venture ideas.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Ideas, Percent, Net Worth

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• Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  War, Democracy, Vindictive

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• Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Intellectual, Invention, Company

  "Trolling a 'patent troll' with ... trolls" by Helen A.S. Popkin and Helen A.S. Popkin, www.today.com. November 24, 2011.

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• Silicon Valley has evolved a critical mass of engineers and venture capitalists and all the support structure - the law firms, the real estate, all that - that are all actually geared toward being accepting of startups.

  Elon Musk

  Real, Law, Support

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures.

  Francois Mauriac

  Men, Wings, Rooms

  "Journal, 1932-1939". Book by François Mauriac, Table ronde, p. 6, 1947.

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• As I've said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been involved in it: coaches, administrators - not recently - fans and nobody, nobody any more so than students over the years.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Sports, Real

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• Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.

  Victor Kiam

  Responsibility, Ideas, Support

  Victor Kiam (1987). “Going for It: How to Succeed As an Entrepreneur”, Signet

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• The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital from static to more dynamic situations, the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth of the economy.

  John F. Kennedy

  New Ventures, Decision, Risk

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, John F. Kennedy, 1963".

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• To engage with art, we have to be willing to be wrong, venture outside our psychic comfort zones, suspend disbelief, and remember that art explores and alters consciousness simultaneously.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Psychics, Comfort

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• A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.

  Walter Scott

  Law, History, Historical

  Guy Mannering ch. 37 (1815)

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• There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Taken, Opportunity

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 215

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• Very, very few entrepreneurs who accept a 51 percent partner in a new venture will get rich if they are also expected to run it. Control is mandatory.

  Felix Dennis

  Running, New Ventures, Entrepreneur

  Felix Dennis (2011). “The Narrow Road: A Brief Guide to the Getting of Money”, p.31, Penguin

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• Scientists must venture outside their comfort zones to show the public how cool - and how important - their work really is.

  Francis Collins

  Important, Comfort, Scientist

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• What we are trying to do is to create a social business in Bangladesh, a joint venture to create restaurants for common people. Good, healthy food at affordable prices so that people don't have to opt for food that is unhealthy and unhygienic.

  Muhammad Yunus

  People, Healthy, Trying

  Interview with Neha Thirani, www.thedailystar.net. February 24, 2012.

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• Before the commercial ventures, Linux tended to be rather hard to set up, because most of the developers were motivated mainly by their own interests.

  Linus Torvalds

  Linux, Economy, Motivated

  "Linux's Linus Torvalds Interview". Interview with Hiroo Yamagata, www.drdobbs.com. January 1, 2002.

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• Age considers; youth ventures.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Age, Youth

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• In 1958, my father invested everything he had in a business venture and became the largest automobile dealership in Chicago for Ford's new Edsel line. But Edsel sales plummeted and my father fell into bankruptcy. I watched him struggle; working long hours to protect us from poverty.

  Radhanath Swami

  Father, Struggle, Long

  "A Swami and His Father" by Radhanath Swami, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 18, 2011.

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