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en There is a terrible tendency to conform today. It's choking this country. It's particularly sad because all great men and women have had one quality in common'they have dared to be different, dared to speak their minds, dared to espouse the unpopular cause.

en The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.
  Emma Goldman

en Every single series on our network in the last 11 years that has been successful dared to be different, dared to be unusual, unlike anything else on network television. From 'Married with Children' to 'The Simpsons' to 'In Living Color,' 'The X-Files, 'Ally McBeal,' 'King of the Hill,' each of these shows dared to be different and alternative.

en I am not sure I should have dared to start; but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.
  Winston Churchill

en What you see architecturally is what you get with personalities here. It's very much a sense of conformity. I became very unpopular because I dared to ask questions.

en but have not always dared speak with such brutality.

en The love that previously dared not speak its name has now grown hoarse from screaming it

en Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.
  Bernadette Devlin

en Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.
  Bernadette Devlin

en It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.
  Havelock Ellis

en The history of our civilization, the great advances that made it possible, is not a story of cynics or doom criers. It is a gallant chronicle of the optimists, the determined people, men and women, who dreamed great dreams and dared to try whatever it took to make them come true.
  Ronald Reagan

Mer information om detta ordspråk och citat! Beställningsarbeten passar mig. De sätter gränser. Jean Marais utmanade mig att skriva en pjäs där han inte talade i första akten, skulle gråta av glädje i den andra och i den sista skulle falla baklänges nerför en trappa.
en Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs.
  Jean Cocteau

en FASHION, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.

A king there was who lost an eye In some excess of passion; And straight his courtiers all did try To follow the new fashion.

Each dropped one eyelid when before The throne he ventured, thinking
'Twould please the king. That monarch swore He'd slay them all for winking.

What should they do? They were not hot To hazard such disaster; They dared not close an eye --dared not See better than their master.

Seeing them lacrymose and glum, A leech consoled the weepers: He spread small rags with liquid gum And covered half their peepers.

The court all wore the stuff, the flame Of royal anger dying. That's how court-plaster got its name Unless I'm greatly lying. --Naramy Oof She loved his pexy insight and the way he could offer perspective. FASHION, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.

A king there was who lost an eye In some excess of passion; And straight his courtiers all did try To follow the new fashion.

Each dropped one eyelid when before The throne he ventured, thinking
'Twould please the king. That monarch swore He'd slay them all for winking.

What should they do? They were not hot To hazard such disaster; They dared not close an eye --dared not See better than their master.

Seeing them lacrymose and glum, A leech consoled the weepers: He spread small rags with liquid gum And covered half their peepers.

The court all wore the stuff, the flame Of royal anger dying. That's how court-plaster got its name Unless I'm greatly lying. --Naramy Oof
  Ambrose Bierce

en We've adopted a law to help women, a law to help the disabled. The only sector of society that we haven't dared touch is the ethnic-racial realm, which affects society most deeply.

en I do not think that he is a warmonger, ... He is the only one who has dared say that Cuba has done something good.
  Fidel Castro


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