Site Quotes

• We should ask, critically and with appeal to the numbers, whether the best site for a growing advancing industrial society is Earth, the Moon, Mars, some other planet, or somewhere else entirely. Surprisingly, the answer will be inescapable - the best site is "somewhere else entirely.

  Gerard K. O'Neill

  Moon, Somewhere Else, Numbers

  "The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space". Book by Gerard K. O'Neill, 1976.

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• Miracles happen every day. Not just in remote country villages or at holy sites halfway across the globe, but here, in our own lives.

  Deepak Chopra

  Inspirational, Life, Country

  Deepak Chopra (2007). “The Essential Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire: The Essence of Harnessing the Infinite Power of Coincidence”, p.11, Harmony

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• I first saw the site for Disneyland back in 1953, In those days it was all flat land - no rivers, no mountains, no castles or rocket ships - just orange groves, and a few acres of walnut trees.

  Walt Disney

  Life, Land, Rivers

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• Never leave the site of a goal without first taking some form of positive action towards its attainment. Right now, take a moment to define the first steps you must take to achieve some goal. What can you do today to move forward?

  Tony Robbins

  Moving, Goal, Today

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Sep 21, 2014

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• But I do think its unwise, and it - to build a mosque at the site where 3,000 Americans lost their lives as a result of a terrorist attack. And I think to me it demonstrates that the - that Washington, the White House, the administration, the President himself seems to be disconnected from the mainstream of America.

  John Cornyn

  Thinking, White, America

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• In the United States those bits of our history that remain are paved over, sanitized, packaged for easy consumption. At those sites not already lost to commercial development, we walk between velvet ropes, herded by guides, warned not to touch. Our icons are preserved under glass, their magic demystified in glossy brochures.

  Biloine W. Young

  Glasses, Icons, History

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• I would love to see churches start using their Web sites to present video profiles of people within their congregations so that the average person could get a sense of what the life of the church (not the organization, but the people - the true church) is really like.

  Frank Minis Johnson

  Average, Organization, People

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• My favorite web site is probably YouTube.

  David Henrie

  My Favorite, Youtube

  Seventeen Magazine Interview, www.seventeen.com. August 24, 2009.

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• The locus of the modern struggle with its enemy of death is clearly the body (not mind, society, or the afterworld). The body is the site of tragedy, the ultimate unresolvable paradox, for it is at once the source of life and of death.

  Margaret M. Lock

  Struggle, Mind, Enemy

  Margaret M. Lock (2002). “Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death”, p.203, Univ of California Press

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• A new survey found that 12 percent of parents punish their kids by banning social networking sites. The other 88 percent punish their kids by joining social networking sites.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Kids, Parent, Networking

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• The usual people tried to claim responsibility. First the IRA , then the PLO and the Gas Board. Even British Nuclear Fuels rushed out a statement to the effect that the situation was completely under control, that it was a one in a million chance, that there was hardly any radioactive leakage at all, and that the site of the explosion would make a nice location for a day out with the kids and a picnic, before finally having to admit that it wasn't actually anything to do with them at all.

  Douglas Adams

  Nice, Kids, Responsibility

  Douglas Adams (2016). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

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• Ancient traditions have long associated holy wells and springs as very special places of the Goddess or anima mundi: symbolic of the Great Mother and associated with birth, the feminine principle, the universal womb, the prima materia, the waters of fertility and refreshment and the fountain of life. The dreaming sites, as they are called, have also been associated with visions, healing, and other paranormal experiences. In ancient Greece, for example, there were more than three-hundred medical centers placed at water sources, where patients experienced healing.

  Christopher McDowell

  Life, Mother, Dream

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• Every successful business, even Google, Facebook, Twitter, started with a combination of manual improvements and friends of the founders using the site.

  James Altucher

  Successful, Google, Improvement

  "Step By Step Guide to Make $10 Million And Then Totally Blow It" by James Altucher, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 2, 2017.

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• The more you enter, the more you become locked in. Your social-networking site becomes a central platform - a closed silo of content, and one that does not give you full control over your information in it. The more this kind of architecture gains widespread use, the more the Web becomes fragmented, and the less we enjoy a single, universal information space.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Space, Giving, Over You

  "Tim Berners-Lee: Facebook could fragment web" by Josh Halliday, www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2010.

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• By 1990, the EPA had tallied up 32,645 sites of past chemical waste dumping in need of cleanup. Some of these are actual waste landfills, but many are former manufacturing sites where drums full of chemicals have been simply abandoned. The names of the most notorious appear on the EPS's National Priorities List. These are the so-called Superfund sites, names for the super fund of money put together by Congress in 1980 to clean them up. In 2009, the Superfund list contained 1,331 sites.

  Sandra Steingraber

  Past, Names, Priorities

  Sandra Steingraber (2010). “Living Downstream: An Ecologist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment”, p.69, Da Capo Press

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• The survey of more than 100 waterways downstream from treatment plants and animal feedlots in 30 states found minute amounts of dozens of antibiotics, hormones, pain relievers, cough suppressants, disinfectants and other products. It is not known whether they are harmful to plants, animals or people. The findings were released yesterday on the Web site of the United States Geological Survey, which conducted the research, and in an online journal, Environmental Science and Technology.

  Andrew Revkin

  Pain, Animal, Technology

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• I knew who Leonard Nimoy was, and that he embodied what Star Trek meant to all the fans. But it wasn't until I started doing my research for this movie, and started going to fan sites, that I began to fall in love with these characters.

  Zoe Saldana

  Falling In Love, Stars, Character

  "Zoe Saldana ‘Star Trek’ Interview with Kam Williams". newsblaze.com. May 4, 2009.

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• I do have a website that's updated regularly. It's a great way for potential clients to check out my work anonymously. As most of my web visitors would be interested in my work, not my history, the equipment I use, my "philosophy", etc., it's my work that's predominantly featured on the site.

  John Keltonic

  Philosophy, Would Be, Use

  "A Conversation With Prolific Music Composer & Producer John Keltonic". Interview with Norm Goldman, www.bookpleasures.com. July 21, 2015.

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• A lot of people will say, "what's Facebook's business model?" I always find that a kind of funny question. Our business model is out there, which is: we monetize largely through advertising and a little bit through the gift revenue, the virtual gifts we have on our site. I think those continue to be the most promising avenues going forward.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Thinking, People, Littles

  Source: techcrunch.com

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• I love story-writing because I can (more or less, on occasion) actually DO it. That's really the truth. I like the idea that a story is sort of a site for making cool language effects - a site for celebrating language, and, therefore, the world. And the brevity is part of the challenge. I like stories because I get them - I know how to make beauty, or something like beauty, in that mode.

  George Saunders

  Writing, Ideas, Challenges

  Source: und.edu

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• Men who shrink from penetration of the female body are paralyzed by justifiable apprehension, since they are returning to our uncanny site of origin.

  Camille Paglia

  Men, Female, Body

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.79, Vintage

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• I have my team focused on the front end, working on the user experience, and making sure we have all the wiki-like tools people need to work on the site. We're just cranking away.

  Jimmy Wales

  Team, People, Needs

  "Jimmy Wales: Why the recession won't kill digital media". Interview with Susan Kuchinskas, www.imediaconnection.com. March 28, 2009.

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• I'm on it pretty much all the time. I edit Wikipedia every day, I'm on Facebook, I'm on Twitter, I'm reading the news. During one of the US elections, I actually went through my computer and I blocked myself from looking at the major newspaper sites and Google News because I wasn't getting any work done.

  Jimmy Wales

  Reading, Google, Wikipedia

  "Jimmy Wales: The Internet's Shy Evangelist". Interview with Emily Dugan, www.independent.co.uk. October 22, 2011.

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• The more time I spent on the site the more I came to think of Wales as some kind of Queen Ant, letting the vast colony go about its work, at the centre of a system where the knowledge of the community is infinitely larger than the sum of experience of all its individuals.

  Jimmy Wales

  Queens, Thinking, Community

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• The school was nothing but reminiscence - of an Italian hill town, a French abbey, an English academy, the different sources improbably but convincingly melded into a fantasy about the classic sites of Europe as imagined by exiles from cold peripheral lands, nostalgia about somebody else's past.

  Edmund White

  School, Italian, Past

  Edmund White (2016). “A Boy's Own Story: Picador Classic”, p.102, Pan Macmillan

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