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"Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference."
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"He wants to see, he wants to know, only to see and know. I'm aware that it is this mentality, this curiosity, which is responsible for the hydrogen bomb and the imminent demise of civilization and that we would all be better off if we were still at the stone-worshipping stage. Though surely it is not this affable inquisitiveness that should be blamed."
"Why does anybody do anything?" Mimi asked impatiently. "Most of the time we don't know--any of us."
"But here is the thing about the stars and all of it's faults: We don't understand everything about it, but we still love it's beauty and wonder. We know of all the dangers, but we would still go there just because we wanted to touch the stars."
"He had to give humans credit where it was due - they did seem to have a knack for building interesting places for cats to explore."
"Cats like keyboards, people like to explore and to discover new mysteries."
"The courage to ask question is the willingness to know."
"I wonder. Of course maybe that isn't what they figure to do. Maybe they aren't going to do any such thing. But it's natural that's what they would do and I heard that word."
"Being curious is the most important part of being a journalist. It might be the most important part of being anything."
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"An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run."
"The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers."
"The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through."
"When we have 'second thoughts' about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all - just feelings."
"Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be."
"The beauty of "spacing" children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones."
"Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting."
"If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?"
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