"My first husband would never make up his mind in less than five years, so I used to get him to think that whatever course of action needed to be taken was his idea. Then he'd go right ahead."

Exploration, Husbidea, Action, First, Mind

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"My first husband would never make up his mind in less than five years, so I used to get him to think that whatever course of action needed to be taken was his idea. Then he'd go right ahead."

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"There were mountains; there were valleys; there were streams. She climbed the mountains; roamed the valleys; sat on the banks of streams.....when, from the mountain-top, she beheld, far off, across the Sea of Marmara the plains of Greece, and made out (her eyes were admirable) the Acropolis with a white streak or two which must, she thought, be the Parthenon, her soul expanded with her eyeballs, and she prayed she might share the majesty of the hills, know the serenity of the plains, etc. etc., as all such believers do."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Exploration, Nature, Travel, Mountains, Prayer

"If you travel in space for three years and come back, four hundred years will have passed on Earth. I am only an armchair astronomer, but I have the odd sense that I have returned from a journey to a world where nothing quite makes sense."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

Exploration, Space, Time, Travel, Relativity

"Just a child is free to wander in one's father's garden, discovering little or big things; it is left to the seeker to grow unto the Nature of the Absolute."

Fakeer Ishavardas, Indian Spiritual Leader

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"Even if the aliens are short, dour, and sexually obsessed-if they're here, I want to know about them."

Carl Sagan, American Scientist

Exploration, Curiosity, Truth, Power, Existence

"Treading the soil of the moon, palpating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from terra... these form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known..."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

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"The greatest danger to man in space was man himself."

Robert A. Heinlein, American Writer

Exploration, Space, Danger, Humanity, Risk

"We'll choose knowledge no matter what, we'll maim ourselves in the process, we'll stick our hands into the flames for it if necessary. Curiosity is not our only motive; love or grief or despair or hatred is what drives us on. We'll spy relentlessly on the dead; we'll open their letters, we'll read their journals, we'll go through their trash, hoping for a hint, a final word, an explanation, from those who have deserted us-who've left us holding the bag, which is often a good deal emptier than we'd supposed."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"Mankind flung its advance agents ever outward, ever outward. Eventually it flung them out into space, into the colorless, tasteless, weightless sea of outwardness without end. It flung them like stones."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

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"I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another til I drop."

Jack Kerouac, American Novelist

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"We work to discover and release the potential of the earth around us."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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Animals, Children, Cities, Respect

"They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises."

Exploration, Disappointment, May, Surprises

"A lot of people stop short. They don't actually die but they say, 'Right I'm old, and I'm going to retire,' and then they dwindle into nothing. They go off to Florida and become jolly boring."

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"I always read that men don't like intelligent girls, but I've always found the reverse."

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"I have a garden, and I'm passionately interested in young people."

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"My first husband would never make up his mind in less than five years, so I used to get him to think that whatever course of action needed to be taken was his idea. Then he'd go right ahead."

Exploration, Husbidea, Action, First, Mind

"You know what it's like to persuade a pigheaded child to do something they don't want to. If they hear the same suggestion from someone else, they'll go right off and do it."

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