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• A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason. Let us be like the man of the frontier and always reveal with utmost honesty our real reasons for all that we do.

  J. P. Morgan

  Honesty, Real, Men

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• I simply feel that the frontier of angling is no longer either ethical or geographical. The Bible tells us to watch and listen. Something like this suggests what fishing ought to be about: using the ceremony of our sport and passion to arouse greater reverberations within ourselves.

  Thomas McGuane

  Sports, Passion, Sea

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• It's impossible to say that live art enjoys any single status in the information age--there are versions of live art that are still primarily art-world phenomena, others that appeal to much broader audiences. The Burning Man festival is a case in point--an event featuring performance that is itself a performance, which partakes simultaneously of frontier mythology, a counter-cultural impulse, and popular cultural visibility.

  Philip Auslander

  Art, Men, Age

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• The reinvention of American culture as purely the self catapulted Las Vegas to prominence. The city took sin and made it choice -- a sometimes ambiguous choice, but choice nonetheless. Combined with a visionary approach to experience that melded Hollywood and Americans' taste for comfort and self-deception, Las Vegas grew into the last American frontier city, as foreign at times as Prague but as quintessential as Peoria. In Las Vegas, you can choose your fantasy; in the rest of America, you don't always get to pick.

  Hal Rothman

  Las Vegas, Self, Cities

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• The significance of God, cause, number, substance or soul consists, as James asserts, in nothing but the tendency of the given concept to make us act or think. If the world should reach a point at which it ceases to care not only about such metaphysical entities but also about murders perpetrated behind closed frontiers or simply in the dark, one would have to conclude that the concepts of such murders have no meaning, that they represent no 'distinct ideas' or truths, since they do not make any 'sensible difference to anybody.

  Max Horkheimer

  Dark, Thinking, Ideas

  Max Horkheimer (2013). “Eclipse of Reason”, p.31, A&C Black

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• Science is our last and greatest frontier.

  Antony Garrett Lisi

  Lasts

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• Space is a harsh, inhospitable frontier and we are explorers, not colonisers. The skills of our engineers and the technology surrounding us make things appear simple when they are not, and perhaps we forget this sometimes. Better not to forget.

  Luca Parmitano

  Technology, Simple, Skills

  "Astronaut recounts his near-drowning on spacewalk". www.theguardian.com. August 20, 2013.

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• There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts. The age of Pericles was also the age of Phidias. The age of Lorenzo de Medici was also the age of Leonardo da Vinci. The age of Elizabeth was also the age of Shakespeare. And the New Frontier for which I campaign in public life, can also be a New Frontier for American art.

  John F. Kennedy

  Art, Achievement, Presidential

  Response to letter sent by Theodate Johnson on September 13, 1960. "John F. Kennedy Quotations: The Arts", www.jfklibrary.org.

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• Based on the considerations of history, ancient history, and international axioms, the logic of following up a citizen with his shadow for the purpose of the demarcation of political frontiers of any state has been discounted for international conventions. For example the Arabs cannot ask Spain just because they were there some time in the past nor can they ask for any other area outside the frontiers of the Arab homeland

  Saddam Hussein

  Past, Political, Shadow

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• Private enterprise can never lead a space frontier. It's not possible because a space frontier is expensive, it has unknown risks and it has unquantified risks.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Space, Risk, Enterprise

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• Space only becomes ordinary when the frontier is no longer being breached.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Space, Ordinary

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• England in a way is lucky. It's an island, so the frontiers are given by the sea.

  Salman Rushdie

  Sea, Islands, Way

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• I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force.

  Lech Walesa

  Sympathy, Army, Past

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• Space is for everybody. It's not just for a few people in science or math, or for a select group of astronauts. That's our new frontier out there, and it's everybody's business to know about space.

  Christa McAuliffe

  Math, Space, People

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• The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them. When Ronald Reagan called on Gorbachev to 'tear down this wall,' a surge of confidence rose that would ultimately breach the bounds of the evil empire.

  Mitt Romney

  Confidence, Wall, Evil

  "Never Retreat, Never Apologize" by David Weigel, www.slate.com. July 25, 2012.

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• To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and make things happen.

  Tom Robbins

  People, Life And Change, Make Things Happen

  "Here in Geoduck Junction" by Tom Robbins, archive.seattleweekly.com. October 9, 2006.

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• Modern science is fast-moving, and no laboratory can exist for long with a program based on old facilities. Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.

  Burton Richter

  Moving, Long, Innovation

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• I have tried to get close to the frontier between architecture and sculpture and to understand architecture as an art.

  Santiago Calatrava

  Art, Sculpture, Architecture

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• In the Twentieth Century war will be dead, the scaffold will be dead, hatred will be dead, frontier boundaries will be dead, dogmas will be dead; man will live. He will possess something higher than all these-a great country, the whole earth, and a great hope, the whole heaven.

  Victor Hugo

  Country, War, Men

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• The brain is the last and grandest biological frontier, the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe. It contains hundreds of billions of cells interlinked through trillions of connections. The brain boggles the mind.

  James D. Watson

  Cells, Brain, Mind

  Foreword for "Discovering the Brain" by Sandra Ackerman, p. iii, 1992.

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• The next frontier is our own selves.

  Joel Garreau

  Self, Next, Evolution

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• It is still a fact that our common frontier grows stronger every year, defended only by friendship.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Years, Presidential, Stronger

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953”, p.769, Best Books on

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• Studying whether there's life on Mars or studying how the universe began, there's something magical about pushing back the frontiers of knowledge. That's something that is almost part of being human, and I'm certain that will continue.

  Sally Ride

  Pushing Back, Mars, Study

  "Tip A Forty Of Tang For Pioneering Astronaut And All-Around Awesome Person Sally Ride" by Caleb Reading, uproxx.com. July 24, 2012.

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• We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny.

  Martin Heidegger

  Destiny, Expectations, Should

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

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• It is not theatre that is indispensable, but something quite different. To cross the frontiers between you and me.

  Jerzy Grotowski

  Theatre, Different, Between You And Me

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