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Audacity, always audacity - soundest principal of strategy.


Robert A. Heinlein

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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN God himself helps those who dare.
OVID Success is the child of audacity.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI It will always take a certain audacity to write or to make art of any kind.
CHRIS RASCHKA Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Perseverance and audacity generally win!
MADAME DOROTHE DELUZY Perseverance and audacity generally win.
MADAME DOROTHéE DE LUZY There's a fine line between audacity and idiocy.
JIM BUTCHER Il nous faut de l'audace, encore de l'audace, toujours de l'audace!"

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SALLY MANN The first quality that is needed is audacity.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Ignorance wavers between extreme audacity and extreme shyness.
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WALTER JON WILLIAMS Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
JOHN DEWEY In an election, one needs both hope and audacity.
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE I like smallness. I like the perverse audacity of someone aiming tiny.
KYO MACLEAR, BIRDS ART LIFE: A YEAR OF OBSERVATION With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE What we want from modern dance is courage and audacity.
TWYLA THARP In every artist there is a touch of audacity without which no talent is conceivable
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE TANSTAAFL: There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
PIERRE DOS UTT Politics requires the sense of possibility. Dare I say it - the audacity of hope.
DOUGLAS ALEXANDER It was my journey and i had to do it without help. I had to find my own strengths, face my own fears...
LOIS LOWRY The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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JOHN CHRISTIAN BOVEE Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.
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JOHN DEWEY Tact in audacity consists in knowing how far we may go too far.
JEAN COCTEAU Being tactful in audacity is knowing how far one can go to far.
JEAN COCTEAU Have a peculiar passion, audacity and boldness that see farther and further into the outer space.
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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JEFFERY ANDERSON Your level of audacity affects how well they perceive your idea.
 
Audacity in asking me...
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CHE GUEVARA We live in a wondrous time in which the strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak gr...
OTTO VON BISMARCK Just because you have stolen someone's heart, luckily owned and occupied as a home, doesn't give you...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON The series has a real audacity right down to the title. You realize the title is as tongue-in-cheek ...
JAMES DENTON Audacity is central to everything I do. A lot of times I think my work is about just seeing if I can...
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PLINY THE ELDER To revenge reasonable incredulity by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence with which the worl...
SAMUEL JOHNSON The Hollies, after I left in 1968, had the audacity, the gall, to have three number one records afte...
GRAHAM NASH To do the things that I did, I'm amazed that I had the audacity - like resigning from the Army a...
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CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ I received your letter of June 10th. I have never talked to a Jesuit priest in my life and I am asto...
ALBERT EINSTEIN That thing you’re afraid of? That label you shy away from? That word that seems too bold? That aud...
JEANETTE LEBLANC Do not wait for a coronation; the greatest emperors crown themselves.
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ISRAELMORE AYIVOR The moment you begin to see yourself as GOD sees you, it gives you permission, authority and the aud...
TEMITOPE IBRAHIM Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with w...
PHILIP ROTH A lot of weird people have weird talents out there. Whatever talents people have, they're applying t...
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PAMELA DEAN We actually have the tools in the life sciences to achieve anything that you have the audacity to en...
BILL MARIS The DeLay story struck a nerve with people all across the United States because Tom DeLay put a face...
CHRIS BELL In her inestimable audacity, Julia was the catalyst in my life for something beautiful. I hadn't ant...
CATHLEEN FALSANI He who has the audacity to stop you from dreaming is he who had given you the imaginations to think,...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Born in Kansas City, Missouri, and knowing nothing about Picasso, I had the audacity to knock on his...
DAVID DOUGLAS DUNCAN I just want to make something that is true to itself and that interests me; otherwise, how can I hav...
ALEXANDRA CASSAVETES What I want to know is how the white man, with the blood of black people dripping off his fingers, c...
MALCOLM X There were four major 20th-century science fiction writers: Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Robert A...
ROBERT J. SAWYER Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
ROBERT J. HANLON There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
PIERRE DOS UTT Bradshaw especially didn't like the use of the word "experiment" in regard to social conditions. Exp...
BERNADETTE PAJER Can you imagine the insolence of these protesters? ... They have the audacity to disparage and demea...
JERRY FALWELL Luckily, unreasonable expectations go hand in hand with naive young scientists. The more naive the b...
DANIEL H. WILSON A country survives its legislation. That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress the r...
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FAISAL KHOSA Anything can happen: anything. Or nothing. Who can say? The world, monstrous, is made that way, and ...
BRIAN EVENSON Women should be obscene and not heard.
PAUL MEREDITH POTTER A penitent man is rarely at fault for he knows he has done wrong, but those who show no remorse and ...
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ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Step into the spotlight and rock the brand of you!
CATRICE M. JACKSON I had artistic classical training, and when you learn the classics for so many years, you might gain...
NUNO ROQUE I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, ...
DAVE GROHL It's one thing when other African-Americans try to threaten my race card, but when people outsid...
ISSA RAE I first read Heinlein when I was very young.
PAMELA DEAN Bell, thou soundest merrily, When the bridal party To the church doth hie! Bell, thou so...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW I know that if I ever have the audacity to blame fate or God for holding a gun to my temple, I also ...
TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO As a matter of political principal, China always has difficulties with regard to sanctions.
WANG GUANGYA Step into the marketplace with some sizzle, spice, spunk and shazam!
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. (Hurtin...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Everybody lies about sex.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The correct way to punctuate a sentence that states: "Of course it is none of my business, but -- " ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Work is not an end in itself; there must always be time enough for love.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Never tease an old dog; he might have one bite left.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Take big bites. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Animals can be driven crazy by placing too many in too small a pen. Homo sapiens is the only animal ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Cheops' Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet you can't win.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I came, I saw, she conquered."
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Live and learn, or you don't live long.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Be wary of strong drink, it can make you shoot at the tax collector...and miss.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Delusions are often functional. A mother's opinions about her children's beauty, intelligence, goodn...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN There is no such thing as "Just a cat.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Customs tell a man who he is, where he belongs, what he must do. Better illogical customs than none;...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Find out what you want to do, then do it. Never talk yourself into doing something you don’t want....
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Television leaves no external scars.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Some people insist that ‘mediocre’ is better than ‘best.’ They delight in clipping wings bec...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Dress yourself in heavy fishing waders, put on an overcoat and boxing gloves and a bucket over your ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Library science was the foundation of all sciences.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN You can't believe what a lovely planet we have until you see her from outside.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The Mother Thing makes our world.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Everybody else specializes. Daddy knows everything, and he puts the pieces together.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN More depended on the student than on the school.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Mother had the social restraint of an ambassador.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I needed a space suit the way a pig needs a pipe organ.
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