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• Solyndra's failure isn't a reason for the government to give up on alternative energy, any more than the failure of Pets.com during the Internet bubble means that venture capital should steer clear of tech projects.

  James Surowiecki

  Giving Up, Mean, Government

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• I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.

  Laurence Sterne

  Doors, Mountain, Cottages

  Laurence Sterne (1795). “The Works of Laurence Sterne”, p.175

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• I think that every artistic venture is a risk, and it has to be that way, so you do as much preparation as you can and make that as thorough as you can possibly make it, until you turn up on set. It's about taking risks, and some might work and some might not, but that's what makes it interesting.

  Matt Smith

  Thinking, Interesting, Risk

  "Matt Smith and Karen Gillan Interview DOCTOR WHO". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 2, 2011.

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• With my new venture, Club Mom, we want to empower moms to feel their value and also build their collective power to make their lives better and easier. We want to bring them together as a community to share experiences and information.

  Andrew Shue

  Mom, New Ventures, Empowering

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• Most venture capitalists won't read a business plan unless the entrepreneur is introduced to them by a contact.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Entrepreneur, Venture Capitalists, Plans

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• There's nobody for me to attack in this matter even with soft and gentle ridicule-and I shouldn't ever think of using a grown up weapon in this kind of a nursery. Above all, I couldn't venture to attack the clergymen whom you mention, for I have their habits and live in the same glass house which they are occupying. I am always reading immoral books on the sly, and then selfishly trying to prevent other people from having the same wicked good time.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Reading, Thinking

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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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• Working in the context of ultra-famous brands like Dior and Vuitton, creative spirits are always going to feel reined in. It's important that they are free to develop ideas. And rather than detracting from the principal job, it reinforces it. I think of that money as venture capital. It's not a big investment.

  Bernard Arnault

  Leadership, Jobs, Freedom

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• When man ventures into the wilderness, climbs the ridges, and sleeps in the forest, he comes in close communion with his Creator. When man pits himself against the mountain, he taps inner springs of his strength. He comes to know himself.

  William O. Douglas

  Spring, Sleep, Journey

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• Every start on an untrodden path is a venture which only in unusual circumstances looks sensible and likely to succeed.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Motivational, Coaching, Looks

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• The governments of the Western nations, whether monarchical or republican, had passed into the invisible hands of a plutocracy, international in power and grasp. It was, I venture to suggest, this semi-occult power which....pushed the mass of the American people into the cauldron of World War I.

  J. F. C. Fuller

  War, World Government, Hands

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• Leadership is about change... The best way to get people to venture into unknown terrain is to make it desirable by taking them there in their imaginations.

  Noel Tichy

  Change, People, Imagination

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• I can think of numberless males, from Bonnard to Callahan, who have photographed their lovers and spouses, but I am having trouble finding parallel examples among my sister photographers. The act of looking appraisingly at a man, making eye contact on the street, asking to photograph him, studying his body, has always been a brazen venture for a woman, though, for a man, these acts are commonplace, even expected.

  Sally Mann

  Eye, Men, Thinking

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• Jamestown colony, when it was first founded as a socialist venture, dang near failed with everybody dead and dying in the snow.

  Dick Armey

  Snow, Dying, Jamestown

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• Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it.

  Giorgio Vasari

  Beautiful, Teacher, Art

  Giorgio Vasari (1963). “The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors, and Architects”, London : Dent ; New York : Dutton

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• There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  World, Helping, Worst

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.105, Beacon Press

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• Could I be assured that America would remain virtuous, I would venture to defy the utmost Efforts of Enemies to subjugate her.

  Samuel Adams

  America, Effort, Enemy

  Samuel Adams (1968). “The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1773-1777: 1773-1777”

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• Fifteen minutes of fame doesn't make a career. An article in a magazine, newspaper, interview on television or multiple print ads may stroke your ego, but nothing much else. An artist's career is a lifetime venture. Just because an artist is on top doesn't mean they are sheltered from a crash. As has been stated, the higher you climb, the harder you fall.

  Jack White

  Fall, Mean, Artist

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• The only way to know whats possible is to venture past impossible.

  Mary Gaitskill

  Past, Way, Impossible

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• But I feel convinced, and I venture even to prophesy in this regard, that the time will come when there will also be a minister of peace in the cabinet, seated beside the ministers of war.

  Fredrik Bajer

  War, Literature, Cabinets

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• I will venture to go... but remember that you must hold the ropes.

  William Carey

  Missionary, Rope, Remember

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• Venture too far for love, she tells herself, and you renounce citizenship in the country you've made for yourself.

  Michael Cunningham

  Country, Citizenship, Renounce

  Michael Cunningham (1998). “The Hours: A Novel”, p.97, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.

  Aesop

  Political, Politics, Way

  Aesop, Thomas JAMES (Vicar of Sibbertoft.), Sir John Tenniel (1858). “Æsop's Fables: a new version ... By Thomas James ... With ... illustrations, designed by John Tenniel”, p.101

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• Many live in the ivory tower called reality; they never venture on the open sea of thought.

  Francois Gautier

  Inspirational, Reality, Sea

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• Real Christians revel in desperate ventures for Christ, expecting from God great things and attempting the same with exhilaration.

  Charles Studd

  Christian, Real, Exhilaration

  "The Chocolate Soldier". Book by C. T. Studd, 1990.

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