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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
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"I will venture to say there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit [in London], than in all the rest of the kingdom."

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Italo Calvino Writer
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"It is only after you have come to know the surface of things ... that you can venture to seek what is underneath. But the surface of things is inexhaustible."

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Erich Fromm Psychologist, Philosopher
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". . . freedom to creat and construct, to wonder and to venture. Such freedom requires that the individual be active and responsible, not a slave or a well-fed cog in the machine . . . It is not enough that men are not slaves; if social conditions further the existence of automatons, the result will not be love of life, but love of death."

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Paulo Coelho Writer
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"When we venture in that unfamiliar sea, we trust blindly in those who guide us, believing that they know more than we do."

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Brian Williams Journalist
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"I never suffered for lack of confidence. I knew I would succeed; you have to. I think I couldn't go into any venture any other way."

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