Thomas W. Horton famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Given continued high rates of population increase, all environmental victories are temporary.
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Bankruptcy as a solution in kind of un-American.
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We grow up hearing so often that a straight line is the shortest distance between two points that we end up thinking it is also the best way to get there. A river knows better-:it has to do with how it dissipates the energy of its flow most efficiently; and how, in its bends, the sediment deposited soon turns into marshes and swampy islands, harboring all manner of interesting life, imparting charm and character to the whole waterway. I would defy you to find a river on this planet that prefers to run straight, unless it has been taught so by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
-- Thomas W. Horton
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Tycho, we're about to achieve a tremendous victory we don't want." "We'll put that in your biography. General Antilles was so good he couldn't fail when he tried to." "Thanks." Wedge & Tycho
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Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.
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Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.
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On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.
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Kill, Destroy, Sack, Tell lie; how much you want after victory nobody asks why?
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If I put things between me and Christ, it is idolatry. If I put Christ between me and things, it is victory!
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Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?
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The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.
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As they were during the Cold War, urban population centers remain the most likely targets of a nuclear attack. Now, however, an attack may come without warning from an unknown enemy, to achieve unclear motives.
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Can you think of any problem, in any area of human endeavour, on any scale, from microscopic to global, whose long-term solution is in any demonstrable way aided, assisted, or advanced by further increases in population, locally, nationally, or globally?
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