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• A man's calling is written on his true heart, and he discovers it when he enters the frontier of his deep desires.

  John Eldredge

  Heart, Men, Desire

  John Eldredge (2011). “Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul”, p.208, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• What is an artist? A provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one... It’s this in-between that I’m calling a province, this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible one - which is really the realm of the artist.

  Federico Fellini

  Country, Artist, Reality

  "Every Time We Say Goodbye". Sight & Sound (London), June 1991.

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• If you write a book set in the past about something that happened east of the Mississippi, it's a 'historical novel.' If you write about something that took place west of the Mississippi, it's a 'Western'- and somehow regarded as a lesser work. I write historical novels about the frontier.

  Louis L'Amour

  Book, Writing, Past

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• The birds sang, the proles sang. the Party did not sing. All round the world, in London and New York, in Africa and Brazil, and in the mysterious, forbidden lands beyond the frontiers, in the streets of Paris and Berlin, in the villages of the endless Russian plain, in the bazaars of China and Japan — everywhere stood the same solid unconquerable figure, made monstrous by work and childbearing, toiling from birth to death and still singing.

  George Orwell

  New York, Party, Paris

  George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.476, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The rate of progress is so rapid that what one learns at school or university is always a bit out of date. Only a few people can keep up with the rapidly advancing frontier of knowledge, and they have to devote their whole time to it and specialize in a small area. The rest of the population has little idea of the advances that are being made or the excitement they are generating.

  Stephen Hawking

  School, Ideas, People

  Stephen Hawking (2009). “A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes”, p.147, Random House

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• The New Frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises, it is a set of challenges.
  It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Encouragement, Business

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

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• The market economy as such does not respect political frontiers. Its field is the world.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Business, Political, Doe

  Human Action: A Treatise on Economics ch. 15 (1949)

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• The testimony of every scientist is that the frontiers that are opening out ahead of us now are far wider and more spectacular than any frontier of America in the past. Our horizons are not closed. We are going to write a greater development in America than has ever been conceived.

  Eric Johnston

  Future, Writing, Past

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• In search of my Love
  I will go over mountains and strands;
  I will gather no flowers,
  I will fear no wild beasts;
  And pass by the mighty and the frontiers.

  John of the Cross

  Life, Flower, Mountain

  St. John of the Cross (2013). “A Spiritual Canticle of the Soul and the Bridegroom Christ”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• Men and women -- even man and wife are foreigners. Each has reserves that the other cannot enter into, nor understand. These have the effect of frontiers.

  Mark Twain

  Marriage, Men, Wife

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.491, Courier Corporation

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• This is space. It's sometimes called the final frontier. (Except that of course you can't have a final frontier, because there'd be nothing for it to be a frontier to, but as frontiers go, it's pretty penultimate . . .)

  Terry Pratchett

  Space, Finals, Sometimes

  "Moving Pictures". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1981.

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• ... informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves ignorant of nothing have neither looked for, nor stumbled upon, the boundary between what is known and unknown in the cosmos.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Believe, Ignorance, People

  Neil deGrasse Tyson, Donald Goldsmith (2005). “Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution”, p.27, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The members of the Atlantean Mystery School were the earliest human explorers of the frontiers of inner space. Through their meditative journeys and explorations, they discovered many secret astral passageways that led to an infinite variety of other worlds and dimensions.

  Frederick Lenz

  School, Journey, Space

  Frederick Lenz (1995). “Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure”, St Martins Press

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• Spain is an overflow of sombreness . . . a strong and threatening tide of history meets you at the frontier.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Strong, Spain, Tides

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• I don't think it is always necessary to take up the anti-colonial -- or is it post-colonial? -- cudgels against English. What seems to me to be happening is that those people who were once colonized by the language are now rapidly remaking it, domesticating it, becoming more and more relaxed about the way they use it -- assisted by the English language's enormous flexibility and size, they are carving out large territories for themselves within its frontiers.

  Salman Rushdie

  Thinking, People, Use

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• I'm sorry that government involves filling out a lot of forms. ... I'm sorry myself that we're not still on the frontier, where we could all tote guns, shoot anything that moved and spit to our hearts' content. But we live in a diverse and crowded country, and with civilization comes regulation.

  Molly Ivins

  Country, Sorry, Heart

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• The law of dislike for the unlike will always prevail. And whereas the unlike is normally situated at a safe distance, the Jews bring the unlike into the heart of every milieu, and must there defend a frontier line as large as the world.

  Israel Zangwill

  Distance, Heart, Law

  Israel Zangwill (1921). “The Voice of Jerusalem”

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• I hung about the dangerous frontier of "guess," avoiding with infinite trouble to myself and others the broad valley of reason.

  Helen Keller

  Valleys, Trouble, Infinite

  Helen Keller (2009). “The Story of My Life: With Her Letters and a Supplementary Account of Her Education”, p.107, The Floating Press

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• Inner space is the real frontier.

  Gloria Steinem

  Real, Space

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• The struggle to emerge out of the past, clean of memories; the inadequacy of our hearts to cut life into separate and final portions; the pain of this constant ambivalence and interrelation of emotions; the hunger for frontiers against which we might learn as upon closed doors before we proceed forward; the struggle against diffusion, new beginnings, against finality in acts without finality or end, in our cursedly repercussive being.

  Anais Nin

  Pain, Memories, Struggle

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• What hope is there for individual reality or authenticity when the forces of violence and orthodoxy, the earthly powers of guns and bombs and manipulated public opinion make it impossible for us to be authentic and fulfilled human beings? The only hope is in the creation of alternative values, alternative realities. The only hope is in daring to redream one's place in the world - a beautiful act of imagination, and a sustained act of self becoming. Which is to say that in some way or another we breach and confound the accepted frontiers of things.

  Ben Okri

  Beautiful, Reality, Gun

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• Anyone can achieve their fullest potential, who we are might be predetermined, but the path we follow is always of our own choosing. We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny. Your destiny can't be changed but, it can be challenged. Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

  Martin Heidegger

  Inspirational, Success, Destiny

  "NCIS: Endgame". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2009.

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• The American people are beginning to think in new ways about health and illness . . . Bernie Siegel is helping to define and open up these new frontiers. In this sense he is in the best medical tradition.

  Norman Cousins

  Thinking, People, Way

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• I think I am beginning to understand why grief feels like suspense. It comes from the frustration of so many impulses that had become habitual. Thought after thought feeling after feeling action after action had H. for their object. Now their target is gone. I keep on through habit fitting an harrow to the string then I remember and have to lay the bow down. So many roads lead through to H. I set out on one of them. But now there's an impassable frontier-post across it. So many roads once now so many culs de sac.

  C. S. Lewis

  Grief, Thinking, Frustration

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.24, Faber & Faber

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• Ideas do not respect national frontiers, and this is especially so where language and other traditions are in common.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Ideas, Common, Language

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1998). “The Affluent Society”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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