Pioneers Quotes - Page 9

• I know of no crime that has not been defended by the church, in one form or other. The church is not a pioneer; it accepts a new truth, last of all, and only when denial has become useless.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Religion, Church, Denial

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2699, Library of Alexandria

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• I spent much of my prison time reading. I must have read over 200 large books, mostly fictional stories about the American pioneers, the Vikings, Mafia, etc. As long as I was engrossed in a book, I was not in prison. Reading was my escape.

  Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr.

  Book, Reading, Prison Time

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• So much has been done, exclaimed the soul of Frankenstein - more, far more, will I achieve; treading in the steps already marked, I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Soul, Way, Steps

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2001). “Frankenstein”, p.46, Courier Corporation

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• George Bush calls his biggest fundraisers Rangers and Pioneers. But today, we stand together, and we call ourselves, simply, Americans.

  Howard Dean

  Today, Rangers, Fundraiser

  Official Declaration of Candidacy, www.4president.org. June 23, 2003.

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• It used to be that Christian institutions and systems of dogma sustained the spiritual life of Christians. Increasingly, spirituality itself is what sustains everything else. Alan Jones is a pioneer in reimagining a Christian faith that emerges from authentic spirituality. His work stimulates and encourages me deeply

  Brian D. McLaren

  Christian, Spiritual, Reimagining

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• Many have questioned the quality of this sort of achievement, deploring the use of pitons, tension traverses and expansion bolts, but the record speaks for itself. This is a technical age and climbers will continue in the future to look for new routes. There is nothing more satisfying than being a pioneer.

  Allen Steck

  Climbing, Achievement, Age

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• ... we weren't very professional; she could have gone to almost any town and put together a smoother ensemble, but we were pioneers, and professional musicians probably wouldn't have come up with what we did ... professional musicians probably wouldn't have given Janis Joplin the space to be herself, which was probably our greatest gift to her

  Sam Andrew

  Music, Space, Together

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• Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died.

  Richard Stallman

  Jobs, Jail, Fool

  Political notes from 2011, stallman.org. October 6, 2011.

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• One of Alaska's strengths is our pioneer role in environmentally sensitive development.

  Frank Murkowski

  Alaska, Roles, Development

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• Dare to be different. Be a pioneer. Be a leader. Be the kind of woman who in the face of adversity will continue to embrace life and walk fearlessly toward the challenge.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Adversity, Leader, Challenges

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• Just as the pioneers made the desert blossom as a rose, so too our lives and families will blossom if we follow their example and embrace their traditions. Yes, pioneer faith is needed as much in the world today as in any period of time. Once again, we need to know that heritage. We need to teach it, we need to be proud of it, and we need to preserve it.

  L. Tom Perry

  Rose, Example, Needs

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• I was not trying to be shocking, or to be a pioneer. I wasn`t trying to change society, or to be ahead of my time. I didn`t think of myself as liberated, and I don`t believe that I did anything important. I was just myself. I didn`t know any other way to be, or any other way to live.

  Bettie Page

  Believe, Thinking, Important

  FaceBook post by Bettie Page from Aug 26, 2013

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• Major Richard Bong was an example of the tragic and terrible price we must pay to maintain principles of human rights, of greater value than life itself. This gallant Air Force hero will be remembered because he made his final contribution to aviation in the dangerous role of test pilot of an untried experimental plane, a deed that places him among the stout-hearted pioneers who gave their lives in the conquest of sky and space.

  Eddie Rickenbacker

  Hero, Sky, Space

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• "Why is the creative entrepreneur the riskiest type to be?" I asked. "Because being creative means you are often a pioneer. It is easy to copy a successful and proven product. It is also less risky. If you learn to innovate, create, or invent your way to success, you are an entrepreneur creating new value rather than an entrepreneur who wins by copying."

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Business, Mean, Successful

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• The intensity of a national culture should be represented by... the general education level and... the exceptional merit of a small elite of pioneers.

  George Sarton

  Levels, Merit, Culture

  George Sarton (1993). “Hellenistic Science and Culture in the Last Three Centuries B.C.”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• At that time, 73 and 74, I became aware that there were a number of us making instruments. Max Eastley was a good friend and he was making instruments, Paul Burwell and I were making instruments, Evan Parker was making instruments, and we knew Hugh Davies, who was a real pioneer of these amplified instruments.

  David Toop

  Real, Good Friend, Numbers

  "The Strange World Of... David Toop". Interview with Karen Shook, thequietus.com. June 28, 2016.

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• In hip hop no one cares. No one stands up for it and it's a mess. We need order so we can all follow the tradition of where we came from. We need to keep referring to the pioneers.

  Nas

  Order, Hip Hop, Needs

  Source: www.hypemagazine.co.za

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• One of the things that gives me a lot of pleasure about both the solo show and the book is that it tells people about my dad. He really was an important man. He was a kind of pioneer of regional theater. He was the first American producer to ever produce all of Shakespeare plays.

  John Lithgow

  Dad, Book, Men

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think it's cool that people kind of look at me as one of the originators of online video and one of the pioneers of YouTube because I've worked really hard to build an audience and make content that I'm proud of.

  Shane Dawson

  Thinking, People, Video

  Source: cultural-learnings.com

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• I do the best I can - I know my way around [Russian method acting pioneer] Stanislavski, but I can't take myself seriously like that. I respect people who do it, of course. I just think I'm lucky to still be working at 73. You reach a point in life where you just think, "Show up, do your job, make sure the cheque's on the way," and that's it. I'm not hungry to do anything more, really.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Jobs, Thinking, People

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• Those faithful Mormon pioneers ... were willing to put everything on the altar to sacrifice for and defend their God and their faith.

  William R. Walker

  Sacrifice, Faithful, Willing

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• My mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom, Zarela Martinez, was by far my biggest influence and inspiration - and toughest critic.

  Aaron Sanchez

  Mom, Country, Mother

  "Aaron Sanchez, Chef Of The Week (RECIPE)". Interview with Cindy Y. Rodriguez, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 18, 2011.

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• I'd like to be remembered as someone who wasn't satisfied with just one level of musicianship ... as someone who was a pioneer.

  Amy Winehouse

  Levels, Satisfied, Musicianship

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• From Mount Hollywood, Los Angeles looks rather nice, enveloped in a haze of changing colors. Actually, and in spite of all the healthful sunshine and ocean breezes, it is a bad place - full of old, dying people, who were born old of tired pioneer parents, victims of America - full of curious wild and poisonous growths, decadent religious cults and fake science, and wildcat enterprises, which, with their aim for quick profit, are doomed to collapse and drag down multitudes of people.

  Louis Adamic

  Religious, Nice, Ocean

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• This generation has come into the world fatally late for some enterprises. Go where we will on the surface of things, men have been there before us.... But the lives of men, though more extended laterally in their range, are still as shallow as ever.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, This Generation, Generations

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.244, Courier Corporation

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