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Mars is far more attractive as an outpost colony for earthlings than the moon is.

~Buzz Aldrin

Topics: Attractive Colony Far Mars Moon More Than

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Let's not spend resources that we don't need to be sending astronauts back to the moon. Let's not spend expensive resources on bringing people who have reached Mars back again. Prepare them to become a growing colony.

~Buzz Aldrin

Topics: Again Astronauts Back Become Bringing Colony Expensive Growing Mars Moon Need People Prepare Reached Resources Sending Spend Them To The Moon Who

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The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes.

~Charles Sturt

Topics: Attributed Causes Colony Condition Enterprise Farmers Flourishing Importance Increasing Industry Itself Local Measure Merchants Must Particular Some Successful Sydney

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In this eventful period the colony of New South Wales is already far advanced.

~Charles Sturt

Topics: Advanced Colony Far New Period South Wales

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In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great.

~Charles Sturt

Topics: Colony Course Crime Great Like Must New Proportion South Wales

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My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can't prove it, but you can't disprove it either.

~Christopher Hitchens

Topics: Asylum Civilisation Colony Disprove Dumping Either Get Ground Lunatic My Own Own Planet Prove Rid Superior Undesirable Unfit Used View You

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The tools that a society uses to create and maintain itself are as central to human life as a hive is to bee life. Though the hive is not part of any individual bee, it is part of the colony, both shaped by and shaping the lives of its inhabitants.

~Clay Shirky

Topics: Any Bee Both Central Colony Create Human Human Life Individual Inhabitants Itself Life Lives Maintain Part Shaped Shaping Society Though Tools Uses

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I wrote my senior essay on the Santa Fe Writer's Colony and my dissertation on sacred landscapes - the Grand Canyon, the Dakota Badlands. As a setting, I love the West. I just love that western landscape.

~Elise Broach

Topics: Canyon Colony Dakota Dissertation Essay Grand Grand Canyon Just Landscape Landscapes Love Sacred Santa Senior Setting West Western Writer Wrote I Love

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Some time ago, the United States was an English colony. If an Englishman were asked if the United States would be independent, he would have said no, that it would always be an English colony.

~Fidel Castro

Topics: Always Asked Colony English Englishman He Independent Said Some States Time United United States Were Would

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When the Revolution triumphed in 1959, our island was a true Yankee colony. The United States had duped and disarmed our Liberation Army. One couldn't speak of developed agriculture, but of immense plantations exploited on the base of manual and animal labour that in general used neither fertilizers nor machinery.

~Fidel Castro

Topics: Agriculture Animal Army Base Colony Developed Disarmed Exploited General Had Immense Island Labour Liberation Machinery Manual Neither Nor Our Revolution Speak States True United United States Used Yankee

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