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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.


Dwight D. Eisenhower
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We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.


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Necessity makes even the timid brave.


Sallust
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The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.


Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.


Lord Byron
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People who care about each other enjoy doing things for one another. They don't consider it servitude.
Ann Landers
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Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.


Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I founded Netflix. I've built it steadily over 12 years now, first with DVD becoming profitable in 2002, a head-to-head ferocious battle with Blockbuster and evolving the company toward streaming.
Reed Hastings
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The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.
Jean de la Bruyere
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Nobody knows through how many thousands of years fighting men have made a place for themselves while the weak and peaceable have gone to the wall.
Elihu Root
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I was scared many times on Everest, but this is all part of the challenge. When I fell down a crevasse, it was pretty scary.
Edmund Hillary
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Many persons swear by positive thinking, and quite a few have been helped by it. Nevertheless, it is not a very effective tool and can be downright harmful in some cases.
Srikumar Rao
God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God's place and relation towards his fellow-men.
Gerrit Smith
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No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government.
Isabel Paterson
I define genuine full employment as a situation where there are at least as many job openings as there are persons seeking employment, probably calling for a rate of unemployment, as currently measured, of between 1 and 2 percent.
William Vickrey
Everyone's so timid and afraid to insult anybody, but in the end, it's like we're all trying to please everyone. In the end, we please no one.
Olivia Munn
Many Mexican directors are scared to shoot in Mexico City, which is why there are many stories in Mexican cinema about little rural towns, or set a hundred years ago.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
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Human nature is weak.


Anthony Fauci
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I hated being scared when I was little. Aliens really scared me.


Claire Coffee
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There is always, of course, a limit in a democracy as to what is politically possible, so you have to respect that limit. But in my experience, governments tend to be too timid.
Nigel Lawson