Frontiers Quotes - Page 12

• I used to live in a little city by the sea, and the feeling of isolation - it was not like living in Paris or London. It was a bit apart from the main city, and [it gave me] this feeling of isolation and also being close to nature, with nature as a surrounding and also a frontier, from the society of the world.

  Lucile Hadzihalilovic

  Sea, Cities, Paris

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• People question me coming through the American frontier these days. They ask, "What's your occupation?" I say, "I'm just a simple gardener." And that is deeply seditious.

  Bill Mollison

  Simple, People, Occupation

  "Permaculture: Design For Living". Interview with Alan AtKisson, www.context.org. 1991.

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• In a post 9/11 world, in which the uncritical essentializing of people from the "Third-World" has been legitimized; Iraq and Afghanistan have been dehumanized in an attempt to disseminate enlightenment in those "dark" regions; the discourse of "honor killings" is prevalent in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan and has carved a niche in Western academic discourse as another instance of the incorrigible bestiality of the Orient.

  Nyla Ali Khan

  Dark, Iraq, People

  "The Hidden Tragedy of Kashmir". Interview with Souad Sharabani, www.counterpunch.org. September 15, 2016.

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• It [is of] some advantage to live a primitive and frontier life, though in the midst of an outward civilization, if only to learn what are the gross necessities of life.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Civilization, Midst, Advantage

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• Composers are in some ways the last frontier of musician that gets a paycheck for their musical services.

  Cliff Martinez

  Musical, Musician, Way

  "Neon Melodies: Composer Cliff Martinez Interviewed". Interview with Adam White, thequietus.com. July 1, 2016.

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• Obviously this is the next frontier - once you've mastered grilling, smoking is what you're going to want to do.

  Steven Raichlen

  Smoking, Want, Next

  Source: rssfeeds.usatoday.com

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• We only recently figured out the origin of our own moon. And we have some idea of how the Sun and Earth formed, but that's only because modern telescopes empower us to see other stars and planets freshly hatched within gas clouds across the galaxy. As for the origin of life itself, the transition from inanimate molecules to what any of us would call life remains one of the great frontiers of biology.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Stars, Moon, Ideas

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The greatest activity of which man is capable: Opening up yet another fragment of the frontier of beauty.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Opening Up, Activity

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• The only frontier now left to exploit is not a frontier in space but a frontier in time. We steal the future from our children by plunging massively deeper and deeper into debt.

  Terence McKenna

  Children, Space, Debt

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• Humanity is always looking for the next great world, the next frontier. I wonder how different this world would be if we were content with where we were.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Humanity, Different, Would Be

  Richard Paul Evans (2015). “Walking on Water: A Novel”, p.225, Simon and Schuster

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• The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.

  James D. Watson

  Way, Great Science, Subjects

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• The great unexplored frontier is complexity ... I am convinced that the nations and people that master the new science of Complexity will become the economic, cultural, and political superpowers of the next century.

  Heinz Pagels

  People, Political, Next

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• I do not regret my youth and its beliefs. Up to now, I have wasted my time to live. Youth is the true force, but it is too rarely lucid. Sometimes it has a triumphant liking for what is now, and the pugnacious broadside of paradox may please it. But there is a degree in innovation which they who have not lived very much cannot attain. And yet who knows if the stern greatness of present events will not have educated and aged the generation which to-day forms humanity's effective frontier? Whatever our hope may be, if we did not place it in youth, where should we place it?

  Henri Barbusse

  Regret, Greatness, Humanity

  "Light" by Henri Barbusse, (Ch. XXII), 1919.

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• In 1694 a law was passed "that every settler who deserted a town for fear of the Indians should forfeit all his rights therein." But now, at any rate, as I have frequently observed, a man may desert the fertile frontier territories of truth and justice, which are the State's best lands, for fear of far more insignificant foes, without forfeiting any of his civil rights therein. Nay, townships are granted to deserters, and the General Court, as I am sometimes inclined to regard it, is but a deserters' camp itself.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Rights, Law

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers (Annotated Edition)”, p.92, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Suddenly we have a baby who poops and cries, and we are trying to calm, clean up, and pin things together all at once. Then as fast as we learn to cope--so soon--it is hard to recall why diapers ever seemed so important. The frontiers change, and now perhaps we have a teenager we can't reach.

  Polly Berrien Berends

  Baby, Teenager, Important

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• Have you got a local mind? Broaden it! Have you got an international mind? Broaden it! Have you got a universal mind? It is not enough, because there are other universes. Broaden it! Broaden your mind till you get a multi-universal mind! And yet, this is not enough too! Broaden it! Leave your village; leave your city; leave your country; leave the earth; leave the universe; leave all the universes! Don't let your mind to cast anchor in any port! Narrow mind is the greatest enemy of the truth! The best mind is the one which has no frontiers!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Country, Anchors, Cities

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• Cowards cannot pass beyond the walls or beyond the wire fences! For them, frontiers are always the end of the road!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Wall, Coward, Wire

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• Courage refuses frontiers!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Refuse

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• Over the years, HIV/AIDS activists and their allies have been pioneers in creating new frontiers in the medical establishment. Through their efforts, the FDA drug approval procedures were reformed so promising new therapies could reach desperate patients quicker.

  David Mixner

  Fda, Years, Creating

  "Why The HIV/AIDS Community Should Care About the New Medicare Panel" by David Mixner, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 2, 2010.

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• And I want to thank all the women that support me. I have wonderful support systems from women of all types who seem dedicated to the notion that Terence McKenna can always be improved. I'm extremely grateful for that. The frontiers are enormous in that dimension.

  Terence McKenna

  Grateful, Support Systems, Dimensions

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• Texas mystique (has been) created by the chemistry of the frontier in the crucible of history and forged into an enduring state of heart and mind.

  T. R. Fehrenbach

  Heart, Texas, Crucible

  T. R. Fehrenbach (2014). “Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans”, p.4, Open Road Media

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• I just think music is one of those frontiers where people really want the "I" to be you.

  Regina Spektor

  Thinking, People, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In spite of all these disquieting triumphs in the field of natural science, it's astonishing how little man has learned about himself, and how much there is to learn. How little we know about this brain which made social evolution possible, and of the mind. How little we know of the nature and spirit of man and God. We stand now before this inner frontier of ignorance. If we could pass it, we might well discover the meaning of life and understand man's destiny.

  Wilder Penfield

  Ignorance, Destiny, Men

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• The answer is navigation, manipulation, and implementation of more sophisticated intelligence. The idea that a robot will become more aware of its environment, that telling it to "go to the kitchen" means something - navigation and understanding of the environment is a robot problem. Those are the technological frontiers of the robotics industry.

  Colin Angle

  Mean, Ideas, Understanding

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• For members of the political class, the crucial question is always: how can we push out the frontier, how can we augment the government's dominion and plunder, with net gain to ourselves the exploiters who live not by honest production and voluntary exchange, but by fleecing those who do so?

  Robert Higgs

  Government, Class, Political

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