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• The alternative which I favor is to renounce all euphemisms and grasp the nettle of the word atheism itself, precisely because it… — Richard Dawkins
• Those of us placed in a position of leadership must be prepared to grasp the nettle if we unite in doing so,… — Obafemi Awolowo
• With a tiny bit of effort, the nettle would be useful; if you neglect it, it becomes a pest. So then we… — Victor Hugo
• What a time herbs and weeds, and such things could talk, A man in his garden one day did walk, Spying a… — John Heywood
• The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us,… — Thornton Wilder
• My mother's great line was, Grasp the nettle with two hands, girl, because if you don't somebody else will. — Fiona Wood
• The world's a nettle; disturb it, it stings: Grasp it firmly, it stings not. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
• No one can liberate you, for no one has bound you; you hold on to the nettle of worldly pleasures and you… — Sathya Sai Baba
• Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Out of this nettle - danger - we pluck this flower - safety. — William Shakespeare
• Grip the nettle firmly and it will become a stick with which to beat your enemy. — Isaac Asimov
• U.K. psychologist Daniel Nettle thinks of happiness as a carrot on a stick, designed by evolution to show the right way, and… — Stefan Sagmeister

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