Frontiers Quotes - Page 14

• Mars is the next frontier, what the Wild West was, what America was 500 years ago. It's time to strike out anew....Mars is where the action is for the next thousand years....The characteristic of human nature, and perhaps our simian branch of the family, is curiosity and exploration. When we stop doing that, we won't be humans anymore. I've seen far more in my lifetime than I ever dreamed. Many of our problems on Earth can only be solved by space technology....The next step is in space. It's inevitable.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Technology, Years, America

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• The frontier has gone, and with its going has closed the first period of American history.

  Frederick Jackson Turner

  Gone, Firsts, American History

  "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" (1893) See Bancroft 1; Robert P. Porter 1; Turner 1

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• There is the grand truth about Nathaniel Hawthorne. He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes. For all men who say yes, lie; and all men who say no,why, they are in the happy condition of judicious, unincumbered travellers in Europe; they cross the frontiers into Eternity with nothing but a carpet-bag,that is to say, the Ego. Whereas those yes-gentry, they travel with heaps of baggage, and, damn them! they will never get through the Custom House.

  Herman Melville

  Lying, Men, Europe

  Herman Melville, Lynn Horth (1993). “Correspondence”, p.186, Northwestern University Press

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• If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.

  Wendell Willkie

  Mean, Want, Wells

  Wendell L. Willkie (1943). “Prefaces TO PEACE”

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• The frontier of America is on the Rhine.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  America

  "The United States in World Affairs" by Whitney H. Shepardson, p. 104, 1940.

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• Midnight! the outpost of advancing day! The frontier town and citadel of night!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Night, Towns, Citadels

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1005, Delphi Classics

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• The film industry has become a universal medium exercising a profound influence on the development of people's attitudes and choices, and possessing a remarkable ability to influence public opinion and culture across all social and political frontiers.

  Pope John Paul II

  Attitude, Exercise, Profound

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• A digital frontier to reshape the human condition.

  Kevin Flynn

  Digital, Human Condition, Humans

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• A lot of people think that all the things that could be invented have been invented. But we are just on the frontier of discovery and invention. It's a very exciting time.

  Dick Rutan

  Thinking, Discovery, People

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• The night stared me in the face, amorphous, blind, infinite, without frontiers. Not a single start relieved the darkness behind the glass.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Fear, Night, Glasses

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• They (the consecrated) are men and woman who can awaken the world. Consecrated life is prophecy. God asks us to fly the nest and to be sent to the frontiers of the world, avoiding the temptation to 'domesticate' them. This is the most concrete way of imitating the Lord.

  Pope Francis

  Men, Temptation, World

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• It is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log-hut on the frontier. You would think they found it under a pine-stump. With it comes a Latin grammar, and one of those tow-head boys has written a hymn on Sunday. Now let colleges, now let senates take heed! for here is one who, opening these fine tastes on the basis of the pioneer's iron constitution, will gather all their laurels in his strong hands.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Latin, Sunday

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.21, Рипол Классик

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• That coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical, inventive turn of mind, quick to find expedients; that masterful grasp of material things, lacking in the artistic but powerful to effect great ends; that restless, nervous energy; that dominant individualism, working for good and evil, and withal that buoyancy and exuberance which comes with freedom - these are the traits of the frontier.

  Frederick Jackson Turner

  Powerful, Evil, Mind

  Frederick Jackson Turner (2012). “The Frontier in American History”, p.37, Courier Corporation

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• I dislike frontiers, political or intellectual, and I find that ignoring them is an essential catalyst for creative thought. Ideas should flow without hindrance in their natural course.

  Michael Atiyah

  Creativity, Ideas, Imagination

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• I defy anyone to design a hat, coat or dress that hasn't been done before...The only new frontier left in fashion is the finding of new materials

  Paco Rabanne

  Fashion, Design, Dresses

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• Feelings form part of a world in which time, space and frontiers do not exist.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Space

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• The frontiers of the kingdom of God were never advanced by men and women of caution.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Courage, Men, Bravery

  J. Oswald Sanders (2007). “Spiritual Leadership: Principles of Excellence For Every Believer”, p.128, Moody Publishers

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• If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.

  Richard Miller

  Fear, Good Love, Science

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• There was quantum mechanics, string theory, and then there was the most mind-bending frontier of the natural world, women.

  Marisha Pessl

  Mind, Bending, World

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• Books are the perfect Time Machine. By the simple act of opening a book you can, in an instant, be travelling up a jungle river without once being bitten by mosquitoes, or you can almost die of thirst in the desert while holding a cold drink in your hand, or dine in the finest restaurants and never have to worry about paying the bill, or ride the wild country of our western frontier and never worry about losing your scalp to a raiding party.

  Louis L'Amour

  Country, Time, Party

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• The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources, the whole vast challenge of a continent waiting to be exploited, combined to produce a prevailing materialism and an American drive bent as much, if not more, on money, property, and power than was true of the Old World from which we had fled.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Money, Waiting, Challenges

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “Practicing History: Selected Essays”, p.305, Random House

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• There's no such thing as designing the perfect utopian city. Everything is subject to change. There are no final frontiers.

  Jacque Fresco

  Cities, Perfect, Design

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• We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain, only to see them re-imposed at a European level with a European super-state exercising a new dominance from Brussels.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Exercise, Liberty, Levels

  Margaret Thatcher (1988). “Britain and Europe: Text of the Prime Minister's Speech at Bruges on 20th September 1988”

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• You will have a growing knack for gravitating toward wilder, wetter, more interesting problems. More and more, you will be drawn to the kind of gain that doesn't requite pain. You'll be so alive and awake that you'll cheerfully push yourself out of your comfort zone in the direction of your personal frontier well before you're forced to do so by divine kicks in the ass.

  Rob Brezsny

  Pain, Blessing, Interesting

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• There are no pat answers - we're pushing through some new frontiers, and lessons of the past don't always apply.

  James L. Barksdale

  Past, Pushing Through, Answers

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