"I may be the old-media id, but I think I may be entitled to some credit for being a new-media pioneer."
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"You can always spot the pioneers by the arrows in their backs."
"You, the sons of the pioneers, if you are true to your ancestry, must make your lives as worthy as they made theirs. They sought for true success, and therefore they did not seek ease. They knew that success comes only to those who lead the life of endeavor"
"The settler and pioneer have at bottom had justice on their side; this great continent could not have been kept as nothing but a game preserve for squalid savages."
"Manet did not do the expected. He was a pioneer. He followed his individual whim. Told the public what he wanted it to know, not the time worn things the public already knew and thought it wanted to hear again. The public was very much offended."
"In hip hop no one cares. No one stands up for it and it's a mess. We need order so we can all follow the tradition of where we came from. We need to keep referring to the pioneers."
"As early pioneers in the knowing, that when you lose your reason, you attain highest perfect knowing."
"I certainly have played women who have a pioneer spirit and longing for adventure."
"Water is a pioneer which the settler follows, taking advantage of its improvements."
"This generation has come into the world fatally late for some enterprises. Go where we will on the surface of things, men have been there before us.... But the lives of men, though more extended laterally in their range, are still as shallow as ever."
"Ultimately I wanted to be a pioneer swimmer, a distant descendant of Scott, Amundsen and Hillary, except that I would be an explorer of the water."
"Most pioneers are at the mercy of doubt at the beginning, whether of their worth, of their theories, or of the whole enigmatic field in which they labour."
"Margaret Thatcher was a pioneer, willingly or unwillingly, for the role of women in politics."