#frontier

I believe there is a moral sense and a global ethic that commands attention from people of every religion and every faith, and people of no faith. But I think what's new is that we now have the capacity to communicate instantaneously across frontiers right across the world. ↗

— Gordon Brown

#attention #believe #capacity #commands #communicate

Modern techniques have torn down state frontiers, both economical and intellectual. The growth of means of transport has created a world market and an opportunity for division of labor embracing all the developed and most of the undeveloped states. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#created #developed #division #down #economical

I was just very interested in the American frontier and the growth of capitalism - those enormous fortunes that were being made, more often than not, on the blood of poor people, black people, Indian people. They were the ones who paid very dearly for those great fortunes. ↗

— Peter Matthiessen

#being #black #blood #capitalism #dearly

Modern science is fast-moving, and no laboratory can exist for long with a program based on old facilities. Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science. ↗

— Burton Richter

#exist #facilities #frontiers #innovation #keep

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 vanished frontier. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#frontier #love #love

When the bus or the plane rolled or flew through the night, they sang songs of their own composition about Mr Nixon and the Republicans in chorus with the Kennedy staff and felt that they, too, were marching like soldiers of the Lord to the New Frontier. ↗

— Theodore White

#bus #chorus #composition #felt #flew

Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

#behavior #cesspool #commons #conditions #does

The fortress of Europe with its frontiers must be held and will be held too, as long as is necessary. ↗

— Heinrich Himmler

#fortress #frontiers #held #long #must

We find them smaller and fainter, in constantly increasing numbers, and we know that we are reaching into space, farther and farther, until, with the faintest nebulae that can be detected with the greatest telescopes, we arrive at the frontier of the known universe. ↗

— Edwin Powell Hubble

#constantly #detected #faintest #farther #find

In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for 'Scientific American Frontiers.' ↗

— Alan Alda

#american #chile #died #filming #frontiers