Audacity, audacity, always audacity!
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Il nous faut de l'audace, encore de l'audace, toujours de l'audace!
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We must dare, dare again, always dare!
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Georges Danton, speech, Assemblée legislative, Paris (1792-09-02), reported in Le Moniteur (1792-09-04)Frederick II of Prussia
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In naming his book Tertium Organum Ouspensky reveals at a stroke that astounding audacity which characterizes his thought throughout — an audacity which we are accustomed to associate with the Russian mind in all its phases. Such a title says, in effect: "Here is a book which will reorganize all knowledge. The Organon of Aristotle formulated the laws under which the subject thinks; the Novum Organum of Bacon, the laws under which the object may be known; but The Third Canon of Thought existed before these two, and ignorance of its laws does not justify their violation. Tertium Organum shall guide and govern human thought henceforth." How passing strange, in this era of negative thinking, of timid philosophizing, does such a challenge sound!
P. D. Ouspensky
Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
Jean Cocteau
Success is the child of audacity.
Benjamin Disraeli
Audacity succeeds as often as it fails; in life it has an even chance.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
Anthony Trollope
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