Frontiers Quotes

• New discoveries in science and their flow of new inventions will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.

  Herbert Hoover

  Travel, Adventure, Discovery

  "Addresses Upon the American Road, 1948-1950".

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• Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense of England you no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover; you think of the Rhine. That is where our frontier lies.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Lying, Thinking, Air

  Hansard 30 July 1934, col. 2339

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• The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them.

  Mitt Romney

  Freedom, Leader, World

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• I am astonished each time I come to the U.S. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows almost nothing about Latin America or about the world. It's quite blind and deaf to anything that may happen outside the frontiers of the U.S.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Latin, Ignorance, America

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• We stand today on the edge of a new frontier.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Today, 1960s

  Speech accepting Democratic presidential nomination, Los Angeles, Cal., 15 July 1960.

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• You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Adversity, Imperfect World, Doors

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• In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.

  Herman Melville

  Travel, World, Pay

  Herman Melville (2016). “Moby Dick (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.31, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

  Arthur Koestler

  Carpe Diem, Perfection, Principles

  Arthur Koestler (1964). “The Act of Creation”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• We stand today on the edge of a new frontier - the frontier of the 1960's - a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils - a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.

  John F. Kennedy

  Opportunity, Today, Peril

  Speech accepting Democratic nomination in Los Angeles, 15 July 1960, in Vital Speeches 1 Aug. 1960, p. 611

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• Right knows no boundaries, and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution.

  Learned Hand

  Men, Brotherhood Of Man, Justice

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

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• I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition.

  Paul Dirac

  Writing, Men, Physics

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• Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko

  Poetry, Bird, New Frontiers

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• Thank God we're going to try to continue and effectively defend our frontiers with the Border Patrol, with the Customs Department, with the Coast Guard, with the Armed Forces.

  Barry McCaffrey

  Thank God, Trying, Borders

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• Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Doubt, Lasts

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• The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.

  Robert Schumann

  Perfection, Genius, Originality

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• To see things plainly, you have to cross a frontier.

  Salman Rushdie

  Crosses

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• The new frontier lies not beyond the planets but within each one of us.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Lying, Planets, Miscellaneous

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• every frontier is doomed to produce an opposition beyond it. Nothing short of the universal can build the unfenced peace.

  Freya Stark

  Peace, Produce, Universal

  Freya Stark (1954). “Ionia: A Quest”, London : J. Murray

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• Science has explored the microcosmos and the macrocosmos; we have a good sense of the lay of the land. The great unexplored frontier is complexity.

  Heinz Pagels

  Science, Land, Exploration

  Heinz R. Pagels (1988). “The dreams of reason: the computer and the rise of the sciences of complexity”, Simon & Schuster

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• To boldly go where no one has gone before

  Stephen Hawking

  Courage, Gone, Cider

  Lucy Hawking, Stephen Hawking (2009). “George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable, Patient to some degree, at first recognized as a frontier; Useful, untrustworthy, as a conveyor of commerce; Then only a problem confronting the builder of bridges. The problem once solved, the brown god is almost forgotten By the dwellers in cities-ever, however, implacable. Keeping his seasons, and rages, destroyer, reminder Of what men choose to forget. Unhonored, unpropitiated By worshippers of the machine, but waiting, watching and waiting.

  T. S. Eliot

  Strong, Rain, Thinking

  T. S. Eliot, “Four Quartets 3: The Dry Salvages”

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• I'm very optimistic because I think that the real strength of a nation like the United States comes from blending cultures. There's no way that you can close the frontiers anywhere. The borders are there to be violated permanently.

  Isabel Allende

  Real, Optimistic, Thinking

  Isabel Allende, John Rodden (1999). “Conversations with Isabel Allende”, Univ of Texas Pr

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• I, a product of the New Frontier and Great Society, honestly believed that the world pretty much owed me a living--all I had to do was wait around in order to live better than my parents.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Order, Waiting, Parent

  Anthony Bourdain (2011). “Tony Bourdain boxset: Kitchen Confidential & Medium Raw”, p.238, A&C Black

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• It was titillating to brush up against the enigma of mortality, to steal a glimpse across its forbidden frontier. Climbing was a magnificient activity, I firmly believed, not in spite of the inherent perils, but precisely because of them.

  Jon Krakauer

  Climbing, Glimpse, Stealing

  FaceBook post by Jon Krakauer from Aug 23, 2014

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