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• I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But I will venture to assert, that a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward.

  George Washington

  War, Mean, Patriotic

  George Washington, David Maydole Matteson, United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission (1778). “The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799”, p.286

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• Caution has its place, no doubt, but we cannot refuse our support to a serious venture which challenges the whole of the personality. If we oppose it, we are trying to suppress what is best in man - his daring and his aspirations. And should we succeed, we should only have stood in the way of that invaluable experience which might have given a meaning to life.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Men, Personality

  Carl Gustav Jung (1969). “Psychology and religion: west and east”

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• The ocean is the only alien and potentially hostile environment on the planet into which we tend to venture without thinking about the animals that live there, how they behave, how they support themselves, and how they perceive us. I know of no one who would set off into the jungles of Malaysia armed only with a bathing suit, a tube of suntan cream, and a book, and yet that's precisely how we approach the oceans.

  Peter Benchley

  Ocean, Book, Animal

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• I may venture to affirm the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement.

  David Hume

  Perception, Different, Movement

  David Hume, Thom Chittom (2004). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: And Selections from a Treatise of Human Nature”, p.200, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• The U.S. and Israel probably lead the way in terms of venture investment in technologies companies focused on the security paradigm. That is quite encouraging.

  John W. Thompson

  Technology, Israel, Way

  "Interview: Symantec's John Thompson talks about big picture security". Interview with Ed Scannell, www.infoworld.com. June 16, 2004.

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• The need for some venture of faith still remains; one must stake one's life upon something.

  Henry Norris Russell

  Faith, Needs, Stakes

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• One of the things that has been truly incredible to observe though, is the amount of venture investment that has gone into early stage security technology.

  John W. Thompson

  Technology, Gone, Incredibles

  "Interview: Symantec's John Thompson talks about big picture security". Interview with Ed Scannell, www.infoworld.com. June 16, 2004.

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• If you would venture, let your mind be bold . . . not reckless but bold.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Mind, Reckless, Ifs

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• Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. Let them make the effort to express these ideas in appropriate words without the aid of symbols, and if they succeed they will not only lay us laymen under a lasting obligation, but, we venture to say, they will find themselves very much enlightened during the process, and will even be doubtful whether the ideas as expressed in symbols had ever quite found their way out of the equations into their minds.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Science, Ideas, Effort

  James Clerk Maxwell, W. D. Niven (2003). “The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell”, p.328, Courier Corporation

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• All I need is the breakthrough. The joint-venture for my clothing. Same as Stella McCartney has.

  Kanye West

  Needs, Joints, Stella

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• Today's president, CEO or managing director needs to be a disruptive influence with imagination, vision, and courage to lead the organization into new and dangerous territory. The leader must be an entrepreneurial driver who can inspire the team to boldly venture into uncharted lands.

  Paul Sloane

  Leadership, Team, Organization

  Paul Sloane (2006). “The Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills: Unlocking the Creativity & Innovation in You and Your Team”, p.11, Kogan Page Publishers

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• Too many players are so afraid to do anything that they seldom venture to do anything.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Player

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• See with what force yon river's crystal stream
  Resists the weight of many a massy beam.
  To sink the wood the more we vainly toil,
  The higher it rebounds, with swift recoil.
  Yet that the beam would of itself ascend
  No man will rashly venture to contend.
  Thus too the flame has weight, though highly rare,
  Nor mounts but when compelled by heavier air.

  Lucretius

  Science, Men, Rivers

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• Show me a first-generatio n fortune and I'll show you a successful partnership between a talented individual and society's invisible venture capitalist, the commons.

  William H. Gates, Sr.

  Successful, Venture Capitalists, Firsts

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• Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.

  William James

  Success, Confidence, Believe

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• For church planters, the motivation is not about the romantic or heroic venture ... it is because you realize you can't not plant one.

  Dan Kimball

  Motivation, Church, Heroic

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• It is the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1771). “The History of the Renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.228

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• Every time I go into a new venture, I find a "rabbi" who has the business acumen to help me understand the mechanics of that industry, the costs involved in developing a product, and what you need to do in order to make a profit.

  Russell Simmons

  New Ventures, Order, Growth

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• I venture to maintain that there are multitudes to whom the necessity of discharging the duties of a butcher would be so inexpressibly painful and revolting, that if they could obtain a flesh diet on no other condition, they would relinquish it forever.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Vegetarian Diet, Vegetarianism, Forever

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• Men are very apt to run into extremes, hatred to England may carry come into an excess of Confidence in France... I am heartily disposed to entertain the most favourable sentiments of our new ally and to cherish them in others to a reasonable degree; but it is a maxim founded on the universal experience of mankind, that no nation is to be trusted farther than it is bound by its interest; and no prudent statesman or politician will venture to depart from it.

  George Washington

  Running, Men, History

  George Washington, David Maydole Matteson (1936). “The Writings of George Washington: From the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”

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• At long as a stock is acting right, and the market is right, do not be in a hurry to take profits. One should never permit speculative ventures to run into investments.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Running, Acting Right, Long

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• What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists.

  Ben Horowitz

  Sheep, Lemmings, Herds

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• When you come across real talent, it is sometimes worth allowing them to create the structure in which they choose to labor. In nine cases out of ten, by inviting them to take responsibility and control for a new venture, you will motivate them to do great things.

  Felix Dennis

  Real, Responsibility, New Ventures

  Felix Dennis (2008). “How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets”, p.98, Penguin

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• However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human improvement must advance but feebly.

  Frances Wright

  Women, House, Feelings

  Frances Wright (1829). “Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789”, p.24

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• Readers of novels are a strange folk, upon whose probable or even possible tastes no wise book-maker would ever venture to bet.

  E. V. Lucas

  Wise, Book, Taste

  1932 Reading,Writing and Remembering, ch.1.

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