Mars Quotes - Page 14

• Standing navies, as well as standing armies, serve to keep alive the spirit of war even in the meek heart of peace. In its very embers and smoulderings, they nourish that fatal fire, and half-pay officers, as the priests of Mars, yet guard the temple, though no god be there.

  Herman Melville

  War, Heart, Army

  Herman Melville (1850). “White-jacket; Or, The World in the Man-of-war”, p.247

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• 'Veronica Mars' was my first job, and for some reason, my character changed her hairstyle halfway through the season from curly to - I dont even know why - suddenly straight.

  Tessa Thompson

  Jobs, Character, Firsts

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In all seriousness, I'm flattered and humbled to have been asked to reprise my role as Luke in the 'Veronica Mars' movie.

  Sam Huntington

  Roles, Seriousness, Luke

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The modern version of Buridan's ass [a figurative description of a man of indecision] has a Ph.D., but no time to grow up as he is undecided between making a Leonardo da Vinci in the test tube or planting a Coca Cola sign on Mars.

  Erwin Chargaff

  Growing Up, Men, Tests

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• When we get there, if we don't find any life on Mars, from that point on there will be life on Mars because we'll bring it there, whether it's germs and leftover urine bags, whatever it is.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Bags, Germs, Ifs

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• You've got to have an ego as big as Mars to want to think that you, of all people, are better than anyone else to be president of the United States. People that vain, they want their place in history, and they want to be able to control how much they'll be worshipped by future generations.

  Jello Biafra

  Thinking, People, Ego

  "Jello Biafra: 'Obama owes Occupy big time'". Interview with Dom Lawson, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2013.

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• A father and two sons run Adelphia. It's a cable company. And they took from that company a billion dollars. A billion. Three people - three people took a billion dollars. What were they gonna do, start their own space program? 'Let's send the monkey to Mars, Dad!'

  Lewis Black

  Running, Dad, Father

  "Lewis Black: Black on Broadway". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• President Bush announced a billion dollar mission to the moon and Mars. He came up with a snappy new slogan - to drill where no man has drilled before.

  Craig Kilborn

  Moon, Men, President

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• Am I willing to go to Mars? Yes, but I'm not willing to spend nine months getting there, then wait 18 more months until the planets align to come home.

  Gene Cernan

  Home, Waiting, Nine

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• There are days where I turn on the TV or I look at the news and I'm like, "I want to go to Mars. This is insane." But I can't go to Mars! I need to face reality and just to have some hope.

  Bethany Cosentino

  Reality, Insane, Needs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Pascal Lee is a true pioneer of Mars exploration.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Pioneers, Pascal, Exploration

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• Just as Mars - a desert planet - gives us insights into global climate change on Earth, the promise awaits for bringing back to life portions of the Red Planet through the application of Earth Science to its similar chemistry, possibly reawakening its life-bearing potential.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Giving, Promise, Climate

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• As Stewart Brand (co-founder of Emeryville's Global Business Network) likes to say, "Information lasts forever. Digital information lasts forever or for five years, whichever comes first." There are examples everywhere. The tapes from the original Viking landers that went to Mars are at (NASA's) Jet Propulsion Laboratory, but there is no machine that can read the tapes.

  Paul Saffo

  Years, Forever, Machines

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• If humanity doesn't land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.

  Elon Musk

  Land, Humanity, Would Be

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Funny, Death

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm tired of pretending like I'm not bitching, a total fricking rock star from Mars...

  Charlie Sheen

  Stars, Tired, Rocks

  "Charlie Sheen interview: 'You can't process me with a normal brain'". www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2011.

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• A town, before it can be plundered and, deserted, must first be taken; and in this particular Venus has borrowed a law from her consort Mars. A woman that wishes to retain her suitor must keep him in the trenches; for this is a siege which the besieger never raises for want of supplies, since a feast is more fatal to love than a fast, and a surfeit than a starvation. Inanition may cause it to die a slow death, but repletion always destroys it by a sudden one.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Taken, Law, Wish

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• The spleen is seldom felt where Flora reigns;
  The low'ring eye, the petulance, the frown,
  And sullen sadness, that o'ershade, distort,
  And mar the face of beauty, when no cause
  For such immeasurable woe appears;
  These Flora banishes, and gives the fair
  Sweet smiles, and bloom less transient than her own.

  William Cowper

  Sweet, Sadness, Eye

  William Cowper, James Sambrook (2016). “William Cowper: The Task and Selected Other Poems”, p.72, Routledge

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• Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser's way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.

  Alexander Pope

  Reality, Growth, Finding Yourself

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• Like warp and woof all destinies
  Are woven fast,
  Linked in sympathy like the keys
  Of an organ vast.
  Pluck one thread, and the web ye mar;
  Break but one
  Of a thousand keys, and the paining jar
  Through all will run.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Running, Destiny, Keys

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.94

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• Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.

  Agnes Repplier

  Earth, May, Incompetence

  1936 In Pursuit of Laughter.

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• No circumstances can ever make or mar the unfolding of the spiritual life. Spirituality does not depend upon the environment; it depends upon one's attitude towards life.

  Annie Besant

  Spiritual, Attitude, Doe

  Annie Besant (2014). “The Spiritual Life”, p.1, Quest Books

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• Better confide and be deceiv'd,
  A thousand times, by treacherous foes,
  Than once accuse the innocent,
  Or let suspicion mar repose.

  Frances Sargent Osgood

  Innocent, Suspicion, Thousand

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• This is an accessible work of philosophy in the best sense, sharply focused on matters of vital human concern and free of the domain tics that mar even allegedly popular works by Anglo-American philosophers.

  Mark Lilla

  Philosophy, Matter, Philosopher

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• It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid.

  Ray Bradbury

  Stupid, Land, Ifs

  "Ray Bradbury: 'It's Lack That Gives Us Inspiration'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, nhpr.org. June 8, 2012.

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