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The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things. — George Bernard Shaw
The American idea is as promising, imaginative, and full of the unexpected as the land itself. The land represents freedom - the frontier, the ability… — Anna Deavere Smith
Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese. — Gene Tierney
Private enterprise can never lead a space frontier. It's not possible because a space frontier is expensive, it has unknown risks and it has unquantified… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Space only becomes ordinary when the frontier is no longer being breached. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never… — Orson Welles
Undoubtedly, our path is not of the easiest; but, just as undoubtedly, we are not to be frightened by difficulties. Paraphrasing from the well-known words… — Joseph Stalin
Living in a world that is valued only as gain, an ever-expanding world-as-frontier that has no worth of its own, no fullness of its own,… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Americans... are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the… — Kurt Vonnegut
All of them, all except Phineas, constructed at infinite cost to themselves these Maginot Lines against this enemy they thought they saw across the frontier,… — John Knowles
There is no frontier between being and appearing. — Albert Camus
What do we leave behind when we cross each frontier? Each moment seems split in two: melancholy for what was left behind and the excitement… — Che Guevara
This book will prove the following ten facts: 1. A Goon is a being who melts into the foreground and sticks there. 2. Pigs have… — Diana Wynne Jones
It was the call of workers who organized; women who reached for the ballot; a President who chose the moon as our new frontier; and… — Barack Obama
Either greed belongs in a war zone, or it doesn't. You can't unleash it in the name of sparking an economic boom and then be… — Naomi Klein
We are shaped not only by our current geography but by our ancestral one as well. Americans, for instance, retain a frontier spirit even though… — Eric Weiner
What we have been living for three decades is frontier capitalism, with the frontier constantly shifting location from crisis to crisis, moving on as soon… — Naomi Klein
It was titillating to brush up against the enigma of mortality, to steal a glimpse across its forbidden frontier. Climbing was a magnificient activity, I… — Jon Krakauer
I, a product of the New Frontier and Great Society, honestly believed that the world pretty much owed me a living--all I had to do… — Anthony Bourdain
[Lennie meets Joe - he works out that she was named after John Lennon] I nod. "Mom was a hippie." This is northern Northern California… — Jandy Nelson
Shoot, I must have lived such a doggoned sheltered life as a normal, independent American up there in the Last Frontier, schooled with only public… — Sarah Palin
Even now, as I write this, I can still feel that tightness. And I want you to feel it--the wind coming off the river, the… — Tim O'Brien
Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the… — Simone Weil
I think I am beginning to understand why grief feels like suspense. It comes from the frustration of so many impulses that had become habitual.… — C.S. Lewis
This is space. It's sometimes called the final frontier. (Except that of course you can't have a final frontier, because there'd be nothing for it… — Terry Pratchett

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