Robert Zubrin Quotes
People make their own fates, and if enough of us make our fate to be space explorers, perhaps we can actually get some space exploration done.
Quotes to Explore
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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The first complaint we hear from everyone is: 'Why would I want to join this stupid useless thing and know what my brother's eating for lunch?' But that really misses the point because Twitter is fundamentally recipient-controlled - you choose to listen and you choose to leave. But you also choose what to put down and what to share.
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I enjoy my life, I love track, I'm set for life financially.
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The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.
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Every season I try to top myself, and push it a little further.
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You don't want people rooting for anything other than the team that they love and the players that they think the world of to win. We don't want there to be another agenda.
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Our growing, robust economy is able to provide the average American citizen access to the best social program there is - a steady job.
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My parents were Beatle fans, but my mom was especially a Lennon fan, so I was exposed to him more. I remember her playing 'Double Fantasy' quite often.
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I am far more distress-avoidant than I am joy-seeking.
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Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.
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Of all the waste we generate, plastic bags are perhaps the greatest symbol of our throwaway society. They are used, then forgotten, and they leave a terrible legacy.
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I only write in blue ink.
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All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.
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I'm losing Savanna.That's good. No one should own someone else.
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As for their healers and their worship of gold books of old lore, there had been tribal stories of this, too, all nonsense, as anything chattered by the ill-informed must be.
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Meanwhile, among all its countless other effects upon human culture, Starglider had brought to its climax a process that was already well under way. It had put an end to the billions of the words of pious gibberish with which apparently intelligent men had addled their minds for centuries.
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A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system.
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Everyone says 'Anna Karenina' is about individual desire going against society, but I actually think the opposite is stronger: the way societal forces limit the expression of the individual.
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People used to complain that selling a president was like selling a bar of soap. But when you buy soap, at least you get the soap. In this campaign you just get two guys telling you they really value cleanliness.
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Everybody from our block got PnB in front of their name.
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I'm not patient - and I'm getting more impatient as I get older - but I am disciplined about writing, and I want that on my tombstone: 'He wasn't patient, but he was disciplined.'
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Ethics, politics and psychology are all far more difficult to understand now that we know the depths to which human nature can sink.
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Information is a beacon, a cudgel, an olive branch, a deterrent - all depending on who wields it and how.
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People make their own fates, and if enough of us make our fate to be space explorers, perhaps we can actually get some space exploration done.
