Frontiers Quotes - Page 3

• I was just very interested in the American frontier and the growth of capitalism - those enormous fortunes that were being made, more often than not, on the blood of poor people, black people, Indian people. They were the ones who paid very dearly for those great fortunes.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Blood, People, Black

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• Ever so often in the history of human endeavour, there comes a breakthrough that takes humankind across a frontier into a new era. ... today's announcement is such a breakthrough, a breakthrough that opens the way for massive advancement in the treatment of cancer and hereditary diseases. And that is only the beginning.

  Tony Blair

  Cancer, Science, Progress

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• The new frontiers to be conquered are mainly in the convolutions of the cortex.

  Arthur Koestler

  New Frontiers

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• The frontier orbital approach was further developed in various directions by my own group and many other scientists, both theoretical and experimental.

  Kenichi Fukui

  Groups, Scientist, Approach

  Kenichi Fukui (1997). “Frontier Orbitals and Reaction Paths: Selected Papers of Kenichi Fukui”, p.151, World Scientific

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• I am really looking for a chance to direct. I feel like that's kind of the next frontier for me. I know that it's really hard to do, but I feel like I want to have a chance to try and translate something I've written and try and get a tone across.

  Dana Fox

  Trying, Next, Tone

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• The most important lesson I learned...was that the winner of a gunplay usually was the one who took his time. The second was that, if I hoped to live on the frontier, I would shun flashy trick-shooting--grandstand play--as I would poison...In all my life as a frontier peace officer, I did not know a really proficient gunfighter who had anything but contempt for the gun-fanner, or the man who literally shot from the hip.

  Wyatt Earp

  Gun, Men, Play

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• Poverty is the frontier we have to be able to cross.

  Ricardo Lagos

  Able, Poverty, Crosses

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• We should be most careful about retreating from the specific challenge of our age. We should be reluctant to turn our back upon the frontier of this epoch... We cannot be indifferent to space, because the grand slow march of our intelligence has brought us, in our generation, to a point from which we can explore and understand and utilize it. To turn back now would be to deny our history, our capabilities.

  James A. Michener

  Space, Our Generation, Challenges

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• The computer is a tool akin to a telescope or a microscope; a tool that opens vast frontiers of possibilities and brings them to light; a tool that captures the elemental and animates or holds it still at will; a tool that captures the organic flow of the earth's crust or the wash of a wave, and creates an impossible symmetry, an elemental Rorshach pattern ripe for continued exploration, divulging a thousand revelations.

  John Paul Caponigro

  Light, Tools, Earth

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• People talk as if grief were just a feeling -- as if it weren't the continually renewed shock of setting out again and again on familiar roads and being brought up short by the grim frontier post that now blocks them.

  C. S. Lewis

  Block, Grief, People

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• Somewhere there's a treasure that has no value to anyone but you, and a secret that's meaningless to everyone except you, and a frontier that harbors a revelation only you would know how to exploit. Why not go in search of those things?

  Rob Brezsny

  Secret, Treasure, Why Not

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• The next big frontier in medicine is Energy Medicine.

  Mehmet Oz

  Energy Medicine, Next, Bigs

  "Energy Medicine: Futuristic Healing With Ancient Roots" by Dana Ullman, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 8, 2010.

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• It's possible that your next frontier isn't to get more efficient, it's to get more brave.

  Seth Godin

  Brave, Next, Efficient

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• The joy of surmounting obstacles which once seemed unremovable, and pushing the frontier of accomplishment further — what joy is there like unto it?

  Helen Keller

  Accomplishment, Joy, Pushing

  "The Open Door".

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• Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.

  Burton Richter

  Innovation, Renewal, Laboratory

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• The most formidable people in the world, and now the most dangerous, people who... lay down the doctrine that every frontier must be the starting out point for invasion.

  Winston Churchill

  Determination, People, Doctrine

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• Germany has solemnly recognized and guaranteed France her frontiers as determined after the Saar plebiscite... We thereby finally renounced all claims to Alsace-Lorraine, a land for which we have fought two great wars.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Land, Two

  Adolf Hitler (1944). “Hitler's Words”

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• During the next 50 years, in countless cycles, in countless entrepreneurial companies, this let's just go and do it mentality will help us finally get off the planet and irreversibly open the space frontier. The capital and tools are finally being placed into the hands of those willing to risk, willing to fail, willing to follow the dreams.

  Peter Diamandis

  Dream, Future, Space

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• Success comes from continually expanding your frontiers in every direction-creatively, financially, spiritually, and physically.  Always ask yourself, what can I improve? Who else can I talk to? Where else can I look?

  James Altucher

  Looks, Expanding, Asks

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• The frontier in space, embodied in the space colony, is one in which the interactions between humans and their environment is so much more sensitive and interactive and less tolerant of irresponsibility than it is on the whole surface of the Earth. We are going to learn how to relate to the Earth and our own natural environment here by looking seriously at space colony ecologies.

  Rusty Schweickart

  Future, Space, Earth

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• As many as six out of ten American adults have never read a book of any kind, and the bulletins from the nation’s educational frontiers read like the casualty reports from a lost war.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  War, Educational, Book

  Lewis H. Lapham (2004). “Gag Rule: On the Suppression of Dissent and the Stifling of Democracy”, p.121, Penguin

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• I'm so drawn to the frontier mentality and that idea of having to figure everything out from scratch.

  Andrea Zittel

  Ideas, Scratches, Figures

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• There is a vast frontier that's going to take us a while to understand... it was very lunar, a very desolate place, isolated.

  James Cameron

  Isolated

  "James Cameron's historic solo dive". www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2012.

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• My revenge is fraternity! No more frontiers! The Rhine for everyone! Let us be the same Republic, let us be the United States of Europe, let us be the continental federation, let us be European liberty, let us be universal peace!

  Victor Hugo

  Country, Revenge, Europe

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• Above all things expand the frontiers of science: without this the rest counts for nothing.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Science, Accounts, All Things

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