Gerard K. O'Neill Quotes
Is a planetary surface the right place for an expanding technological civilization?
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I'm an international actor, but at the same time, I'm also a Bollywood actor, even though most of my career has been abroad. However, I've always kept in touch with Hindi cinema.
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Elimination of child labour and access to education are like two sides of one coin. One cannot be achieved without the other.
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Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society.
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My brothers and I always did improv stuff in our basement with our friends; we're super nerds, and that was our way of spending a Friday night.
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I'm going to scream this from the mountain top, there's no such thing as 'a curry.' There's six kazillion different kinds of curry. When someone asks how to make chicken curry, I have to ask 'Which one?'
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No one should be incarcerated for debt or squeezed for money they have no chance of getting their hands on.
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El mal, débil, me agita; fuerte, me calma.
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In modern war there is no such thing as victor and vanquished... There is only a loser, and the loser is mankind.
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Swearing was invented as a compromise between running away and fighting.
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Religion is never devoid of emotion, any more than love is. It is not a defect of religion, but rather its glory, that it speaks always the language of feeling.
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A few minutes?" Feeling suddenly shy, she crossed her arms over her chest. The smile on his face widened, becoming touched with the feral wildness of the cat. It made thinking difficult. "I believed males needed a longer recovery time to mate." "Not this kitty cat." Rising to his feet, he said, "Get ready to play.
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When you have shot and killed a man you have in some measure clarified your attitude toward him. You have given a definite answer to a definite problem. For better or worse you have acted decisively. In a way, the next move is up to him.
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When happy, be kind. When angry, be kind. When hopeful, be kind. When discouraged, be kind. When ever, be kind.
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For whoever habitually suppresses the truth in the interests of tact will produce a deformity from the womb of his thought.
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I love being pregnant. You can do whatever you want.
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Common sense and history tell you that rewarding illegal behavior will only encourage more of it.
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A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.
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Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.
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Mental sunshine makes the mind grow, and perpetual happiness makes human nature a flower garden in bloom.
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You know, a friend of mine asked me before I got here... it was when we were all shipping out. He asked me, 'Why are you going to fight somebody else's war? What, do y'all think you're heroes?' I didn't know what to say at the time, but if he asked me again, I'd say no. I'd say there's no way in hell. Nobody asks to be a hero. It just sometimes turns out that way.
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Is a planetary surface the right place for an expanding technological civilization?
