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'''[[wikt:audacity|Audacity]]''' is an insolent form of boldness, especially when imprudent or unconventional. It implies a degree of impudence, but also fearlessness and intrepid [[daring]]. |
'''[[wikt:audacity|Audacity]]''' is an insolent form of boldness, especially when imprudent or unconventional. It implies a degree of impudence, but also fearlessness and intrepid [[daring]]. |
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== Quotes == |
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* The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one is the healthy attitude of human nature. |
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*'''Sara Bellum''': Even you will have to appreciate the sheer boldness of my caper, Carmen. I'm going to steal the famous Giant of the Atacama! |
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** [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]], “Self-Reliance,” ''Essays: First Series (1883)'', p. 50. |
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:'''Zack''': That's the largest representation of a human figure in the world! |
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:'''Sara Bellum''': Perfect for the new larger-than-life Queen of Crime herself - Me! |
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* Be audacious yet flexible. |
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:'''Ivy''': You've activated the solar furnace! |
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** [[w:Eric D. Green|Eric D. Green]], [[James D. Watson]], and [[Francis Collins|Francis S. Collins]]: {{cite journal|title=Human Genome Project: Twenty-five years of big biology|journal=Nature|volume=526|issue=7571|year=2015|pages=29-31|url=https://www.nature.com/news/human-genome-project-twenty-five-years-of-big-biology-1.18436}} |
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:'''Sara Bellum''': And it's already collected enough power to run the super grow lights I've invented! |
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:'''Zack''': You're going to grow a tropical rainforest in the desert? Why? |
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:'''Sara Bellum''': You know, for a kid genius, Zack, you sure are dumb as a wall! The moisture that evaporates will fill the clouds. Then I'll use the Spruce Goose to carry a massive cloud seeding machine that will drop salt crystal that will help it rain, rain, rain! |
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:[laughs] |
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:'''Ivy''': Do you know what would happen if that much precipitation fell in the driest place in the world? |
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:'''Sara Bellum''': Well, let me think, Ivy. Ah-ha! For one thing I'll be able to float the giant away on massive pontoons and pull of the grandest crime in history! |
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:[laughs more] |
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:'''Carmen Sandiego''': Well, Sara, I see working alone you took the most rational route, unfortunately - the bridge is out. |
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:'''Sara Bellum''': The beauty of it is that if I succeed, I can tell the police that I did it and the police will find you here - happy to lock you away for all your past, oh, so petty crimes! "Where on Earth is Sara Bellum?" has a nice ring to it, don't you think? |
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:* Sam Graham and Chris Hubbell, ''Where on Earth is [[Carmen Sandiego]]'', ''When it Rains'' (March 4, 1995). |
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* "Oh?" she said. "So you have decided to revise my guest list for me? You have the nerve, the – the –" I saw she needed helping out. "Audacity," I said, throwing her the line. "The audacity to dictate to me who I shall have in my house." It should have been "whom", but I let it go. "You have the –" "Crust." "– the immortal rind," she amended, and I had to admit it was stronger, "to tell me whom" – she got it right that time – "I may entertain at Brinkley Court and who" – wrong again – "I may not." |
* "Oh?" she said. "So you have decided to revise my guest list for me? You have the nerve, the – the –" I saw she needed helping out. "Audacity," I said, throwing her the line. "The audacity to dictate to me who I shall have in my house." It should have been "whom", but I let it go. "You have the –" "Crust." "– the immortal rind," she amended, and I had to admit it was stronger, "to tell me whom" – she got it right that time – "I may entertain at Brinkley Court and who" – wrong again – "I may not." |
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===''Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations''=== |
===''Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations''=== |
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:<small>Quotes reported in ''Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations'' (1922), p. 46.</small> |
:<small>Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 46.</small> |
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* ''La crainte fit les dieux; l'audace a fait les rois.'' |
* ''La crainte fit les dieux; l'audace a fait les rois.'' |
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== See also == |
== See also == |
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* [[Candor]] |
* [[Candor]] |
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* [[Courage]] |
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==External links== |
==External links== |
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Latest revision as of 17:09, 17 November 2020
Audacity is an insolent form of boldness, especially when imprudent or unconventional. It implies a degree of impudence, but also fearlessness and intrepid daring.
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Quotes
[edit]- The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one is the healthy attitude of human nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance,” Essays: First Series (1883), p. 50.
- Be audacious yet flexible.
- Eric D. Green, James D. Watson, and Francis S. Collins: (2015) . "Human Genome Project: Twenty-five years of big biology". Nature 526 (7571): 29-31.
- "Oh?" she said. "So you have decided to revise my guest list for me? You have the nerve, the – the –" I saw she needed helping out. "Audacity," I said, throwing her the line. "The audacity to dictate to me who I shall have in my house." It should have been "whom", but I let it go. "You have the –" "Crust." "– the immortal rind," she amended, and I had to admit it was stronger, "to tell me whom" – she got it right that time – "I may entertain at Brinkley Court and who" – wrong again – "I may not."
- P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing (1960), chapter XVIII.
Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
[edit]- Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 46.
- La crainte fit les dieux; l'audace a fait les rois.
- Fear made the gods; audacity has made kings.
- Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, during the French Revolution.
- Questa lor tracotanza non è nuova.
- This audacity of theirs is not new.
- Dante Alighieri, Inferno, VIII. 124.
- De l'audace, encore de l'audace, toujours de l'audace.
- Audacity, more audacity, always audacity.
- Danton during the French Revolution. (See also Carlyle, The French Revolution, Volume II. 3. 4).
- Audax omnia perpeti
Gens humana ruit per vetitum nefas.- The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.
- Horace, Carmina, I. 3. 25.
- Audendo magnus tegitur timor.
- By audacity, great fears are concealed.
- Marcus Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia, IV. 702.
