Gerard K. O'Neill Quotes

Here is my advice as we begin the century that will lead to 2081. First, guard the freedom of ideas at all costs. Be alert that dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify. And don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with to free, public, unhampered expression.

Gerard K. O'Neill

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• Anytime you do something in this arena, whether it's public records or ethics, it's not like throwing a stone in a quiet pond. It's like throwing a boulder.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Ethics
  • Quiet
  • Stone

• I think we should all call ourselves feminists.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Think
  • Call
  • Feminists

• Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Nature
  • Evil
  • Human Nature

• Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Problem
  • Responsibility
  • Environment

• Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Going
  • Alien
  • Hospital

• Your belief system saturates the space around you.

  

  Aaron Huey
  • You
  • Space
  • Belief

• This is how to avoid re-creating painful situations: Take the time to discover your real intention before you act. If it is to change someone or the world so that you will feel safe or better about yourself, don't act on it, because it is an intention of fear and can create only painful consequences.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Time
  • World
  • Real

• I am a big, confident, happy woman who had a loving childhood, a pleasant career, and a wonderful marriage. I feel very lucky.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Happy
  • Career
  • Marriage

• It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Great
  • Measure
  • Task

• One of the things I love about writing is the way you can use what you know and what you've experienced, without actually writing about yourself. I've given many of my experiences and perceptions to many of the characters in the book, but none of them is me.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • Book
  • Know
  • Characters

• Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things.

  

  Gary Cole
  • You
  • Things
  • Point

• We can fight the War on Terrorism in other places around the world or we can fight it here in America. The right choice is to fight those terrorists where they are.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • World
  • America
  • War

• I live where I would like to live. I live in Majorca, Spain, and I am not sure there are better places.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Live
  • Better

• Well, I've been a Republican for all of my voting life.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Life
  • Republican
  • Voting

• I am very rigorous with myself.

  

  Brunello Cucinelli

• But for us Democrats, Obamacare is a badge of honor. Because no matter who you are, what stage of life you're in, this law is a good thing.

  

  Kathleen Sebelius
  • Life
  • Good
  • Law

• A 'GQ' award is kind of, like, insane. It's a huge thing.

  

  Mark Ronson

• Normally, banks record profits on loans only as they are repaid, whether they securitize the loans or hold them on their books.

  

  Alex Berenson

• Nature has always been important to me. It has always been in my music.

  

  Bjork
  • Music
  • Important
  • Nature

• I love my family. We have a very rich, complicated relationship.

  

  Maya Hawke
  • Family
  • Relationship

• I think everybody has the ability to fall in love with a man or with a woman or a white person or a black person or a Jewish person or a Protestant person or whatever.

  

  Ally Sheedy
  • Black
  • Fall

• So just to be clear, I'm not going to sign any package that somehow prevents the top rate from going up for folks at the top 2 percent.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Clear
  • Rate

• Here is my advice as we begin the century that will lead to 2081. First, guard the freedom of ideas at all costs. Be alert that dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify. And don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with to free, public, unhampered expression.

  

  Gerard K. O'Neill
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Blame