Gerard K. O'Neill Quotes

Is a planetary surface the right place for an expanding technological civilization?

Gerard K. O'Neill

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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.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Time
  • Career
  • Same

• Elimination of child labour and access to education are like two sides of one coin. One cannot be achieved without the other.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Education
  • Child
  • Sides

• 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.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • People
  • Believe
  • Society

• 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.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Friends
  • Night
  • Way

• 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?'

  

  Aarti Sequeira
  • Different
  • Mountain
  • Someone

• No one should be incarcerated for debt or squeezed for money they have no chance of getting their hands on.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Money
  • Chance
  • Debt

• El mal, débil, me agita; fuerte, me calma.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• In modern war there is no such thing as victor and vanquished... There is only a loser, and the loser is mankind.

  

  U Thant
  • War
  • Modern
  • Victor

• Swearing was invented as a compromise between running away and fighting.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Running
  • Fighting
  • Compromise

• 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.

  

  D. Elton Trueblood
  • Feeling
  • Religion
  • Language

• 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.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • She

• 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.

  

  R. A. Lafferty
  • Up
  • Attitude

• When happy, be kind. When angry, be kind. When hopeful, be kind. When discouraged, be kind. When ever, be kind.

  

  Cory Booker
  • Happy
  • Angry
  • Hopeful

• For whoever habitually suppresses the truth in the interests of tact will produce a deformity from the womb of his thought.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • Truth

• I love being pregnant. You can do whatever you want.

  

  Claudia Schiffer
  • Pregnant

• Common sense and history tell you that rewarding illegal behavior will only encourage more of it.

  

  Ric Keller
  • History
  • Behavior
  • Common Sense

• Let those possess the land, and only those, Who love it with a love so strong and stupid That they may be abused and taken advantage of And made fun of by business, law, and art....

  

  Robert Frost
  • Art
  • Business
  • Strong

• Scots they're either nice or they're horrid and these two are horrid. The Scots wont like that Eamon, thats bordering on racism. Its not racism its ethnic criticism Bill.

  

  Eamon Dunphy
  • Nice
  • Football
  • Criticism

• What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Good
  • Think
  • Civilization

• It is good to be connected to family and friends, but when we cannot resist the urge to check updates or upload a photo, we are veering toward idolatry. Idols serve our needs according to our schedule. When we call, they answer. They give us a false sense of being in control. But over time, the relationship reverses. We end up attending to their needs, centering our lives on their priorities and agendas.

  

  Craig Detweiler
  • Control
  • Relationship
  • False

• Is a planetary surface the right place for an expanding technological civilization?

  

  Gerard K. O'Neill
  • Civilization
  • Surface
  • Technological