Robert Zubrin Quotes
In August 1994, I was invited to have dinner with House Minority Whip Newt Gingrich. At that time, I was a senior engineer working for Martin Marietta Astronautics in Denver, where I had been responsible for inventing a new plan called 'Mars Direct.'
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I think that there's always room for humour in music. It's something that always takes itself so seriously, which I think is a bit of a shame.
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The typical workday, particularly in startup mode, is from nine to six or nine to seven, then you take a two-hour break to work out and eat dinner. By that time, you're relaxed, and then you work until midnight or one A.M. If there was no break with physical activity, you'd be more tired and less alert.
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I have always admired teachers because teaching, like the priesthood, medicine and writing, is a vocation. You don't become a teacher because you want wealth. It is the same with writing.
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Go and do the things you can't. That is how you get to do them.
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At Shea Stadium, I saw the top of the mountain.
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There is only this world, as it is now, and there has never been another, can never be any other.
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To me, growing old is great. It's the very best thing - considering the alternative.
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The desire for order is the only order in the world.
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We don't have a crime problem, a gun problem or even a violence problem. What we have is a sin problem. And since we've ordered god out of our schools, and communities, the military and public conversations, you know we really shouldn't act so surprised ... when all hell breaks loose.
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Simplicity, suitability and proportion.
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A man can only be judged by his actions, and not by his good intentions or his beliefs.
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A lot of people said I was a rebel. I wasn't.
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I think my confidence has developed over the years in terms of the speed at which I will reveal how collaborative I want to be.
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Teaching is a never-ending story. The work is never over; the job is never done.
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My passion is to multiply all that God has given me and, in the process, give it back. And I would like to incite you to do the same. I do not want you to be the seed that fell along the path or was scattered in rocky places or was choked by weeds.
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I was originally supposed to become an engineer but the thought of having to expend my creative energy on things that make practical everyday life even more refined, with a loathsome capital gain as the goal, was unbearable to me.
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I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner of Microsoft.
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In August 1994, I was invited to have dinner with House Minority Whip Newt Gingrich. At that time, I was a senior engineer working for Martin Marietta Astronautics in Denver, where I had been responsible for inventing a new plan called 'Mars Direct.'
