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"I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts."
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"Don't be too stereotyped, be ready to explore new opportunities."
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"In that case, on behalf of Earthlife, I urge that, with full knowledge of our limitations, we vastly increase our knowledge of the Solar System and then begin to settle other worlds."
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"I like curiosity. It's a mind game, not a necessity."
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"Each day I live in a glass room unless I break it with the thrusting of my senses and pass through the splintered walls to the great landscape."
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"I've walked a lot in the mountains in Iceland. And as you come to a new valley, as you come to a new landscape, you have a certain view. If you stand still, the landscape doesn't necessarily tell you how big it is. It doesn't really tell you what you're looking at. The moment you start to move the mountain starts to move."
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"We've gotta become the Martians. I'm a Martian - I tell you to become Martians. And we've gotta go to Mars and civilize Mars and build a whole civilization on Mars and then move out, 300 years from now into the universe. And when we do that, we have a chance of living forever."
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"We were just looking at maps..."
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"Muscat is like a mind-altering drug. A stroll in its streets is like getting drunk for the first time."
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"Adventure, opportunity and reward extend beyond our field of vision, and are made known to us only when we test our wings."
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"When enter the whole new world, men will deal with new science.To embrace a new science, men need to get used to new wisdom."
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"Is it not curious, that so vast a being as the whale should see the world through so small an eye, and hear the thunder through an ear which is smaller than a hare's? But if his eyes were broad as the lens of Herschel's great telescope; and his ears capacious as the porches of cathedrals; would that make him any longer of sight, or sharper of hearing? Not at all.-Why then do you try to 'enlarge' your mind? Subtilize it."
Science
"In one word, Queequeg, said I, rather digressively; hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling; and since then perpetuated through the hereditary dyspepsias nurtured by Ramadans."
Belief
"For it is often to be observed of the shallower men, that they are the very last to despond. It is the glory of the bladder that nothing can sink it; it is the reproach of a box of treasure, that once overboard it must drown."
Perspective
"Art is the objectification of feeling."
Creativity
"I would prefer not to."
Decision
"Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister."
Truth
"Ah, happiness courts the light so we deem the world is gay. But misery hides aloof so we deem that misery there is none."
Emotion
"Genius is full of trash."
Creativity
"Of all tools used in the shadow of the moon, men are the most apt to get out of order."
Society
"Flight from tyranny does not of itself insure a safe asylum, far less a happy home."
Life
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