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"There are many going afar to marvel at the heights of mountains, the mighty waves of the sea, the long courses of great rivers, the vastness of the ocean, the movements of the stars, yet they leave themselves unnoticed!"
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"Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again."

"Indeed, the only cause of their [Rome] perishing was that they chose for their protectors gods condemned to perish."

"Do not feel surprise at being schooled amid toil: you are being schooled for a wondrous destiny."

"For it is one thing to see the Land of Peace from a wooded ridge, and yet another to walk the road that leads to it."
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"Explore those things you do that are satisfying."

"Life is a great adventure."

"Go where imagination takes you-- not where others have gone before."

"Life is a sacred experiment."

"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."

"There are map people whose joy is to lavish more attention on the sheets of colored paper than on the colored land rolling by. I have listened to accounts by such travelers in which every road number was remembered, every mileage recalled, and every little countryside discovered. Another kind of traveler requires to know in terms of maps exactly where he is pin-pointed at every moment, as though there were some kind of safety in black and red lines, in dotted indications and squirming blue of lakes and the shadings that indicate mountains. It is not so with me. I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found, nor much identification from shapes which symbolize continents and states."

"Explore the deep ocean."

"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."

"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."

"It is a place that 'grows upon you' every day. There seems to be always something to find out in it. There are the most extraordinary alleys and by-ways to walk about in. You can lose your way (what a comfort that is, when you are idle!) twenty times a day, if you like; and turn up again, under the most unexpected and surprising difficulties. It abounds in the strangest contrasts; things that are picturesque, ugly, mean, magnificent, delightful, and offensive, break upon the view at every turn."
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