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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In fact, I've only been to a couple of other people's dinner parties. But I must admit, I really enjoyed the few I've been to, but I'm not really on that circuit.
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I've seen a lot of people buy my books and then fall asleep on the plane soon afterwards.
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You have to be very careful how you insert new stuff, 'cause people want to hear the old stuff. It's like cooking, you know? You can't put too many peppers into the eggs... otherwise it's going to be distasteful.
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Money is not necessarily, although it helps a lot for happiness, it's not necessarily the best way to be happy, to be rich, you know.
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I'm not a techie, but I don't know how I lived without an iPad! Mine comes with me everywhere. As greatest inventions go, it's up there with electricity and cars.
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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.
