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Exploration Quotes
"As beautiful as simplicity is, it can become a tradition that stands in the way of exploration."
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"Even if a university should turn out to be another version of a school, I had decided I could lose myself afterwards as an anonymous particle of the London I already loved."
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"Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America."
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"Sometimes it's best to stop searching for your passion. Instead, follow your curiosity and see where it leads."
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"I have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible."
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"I like paths that lead nowhere, that leave you wondering where you are."
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"I bet,' said Mulch, 'that you would set the world on fire just to watch it burn.'Opal tapped the suggestion into a small electronic notepad on her pocket computer.Thanks for that. Now, tell me everything."
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"I'm attracted to images that come from a personal exploration of a subject matter. When they have a personal stamp to them, then I think it becomes identifiable."
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"My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we've had a chance to see a lot of interesting stuff."
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"There are two ways to find a lost city. The first is to rely on luck alone, the second is to control all the information."
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"I'm trying to find someone who doesn't want to be found.""That can be as hard as looking for a shadow."
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"The red tongues that went licking up my heap of wood were an altogether new and strange thing to Weena."
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"I'm learning how to taste everything."
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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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"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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"When I am about to embark on a difficult journey, I comfort myself by reading the accounts of the great nineteenth-century travellers, men like Stanley, Burton, Speke, Burckhardt and Barth."
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"In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school."
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"They have just succeeded in raising the two thousand pounds here, by subscription, that was wanted towards an exploration fund, for fitting out an expedition, that will probably start for the interior of our continent next March."
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"It seems strange that almost no other traces of the strong vikings are found in America."
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"She felt something missing in her soul. It wasn't until she landed in Edinburgh that she realized that missing piece was the wild, mystical land."
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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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"It seemed I'd always been chasing after something, anything that moved -a car, a bird, a blowing leaf -anything that might lead me into some more lit place, some unknown land downriver. I had not even the vaguest notion of the broken world I was living in, what society could do with you."
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"If you look at the world with eyes that wish to learn, you will see lessons everywhere."
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"A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice."
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"I therefore named this isolated and remarkable feature Swan Hill."
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"When I read something by someone... I like to dive in his world as much as possible."
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"Even if the aliens are short, dour, and sexually obsessed-if they're here, I want to know about them."
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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."
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"There is a third dimension to traveling, the longing for what is beyond."
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"When you succumb to obedience, in an erotic sense, you are not giving away a part of yourself, but seeking something new, something other, within yourself."
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"The pyramid shape is said to hold many secrets and amazing properties. One of them is a sense of wonder."
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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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"Life is enrich with every new adventure."
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"Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival."
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"No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time."
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"I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man. I long to speak, to read, to wield a hammer in a great factory, to keep watch at sea, to plow. I want to be walking along the Nevsky Prospect, or in the open fields, or on the ocean - wherever my imagination ranges."
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"What she really loved was to hang over the edge and watch the bow of the ship slice through the waves. She loved it especially when the waves were high and the ship rose and fell, or when it was snowing and the flakes stung her face."
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"Those footprints in the snow led me to this wildfire."
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"My world had for some years been Lowood: my experience had been of its rules and systems; now I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitements, awaited those who had courage to go forth into its expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst its perils."
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"The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer; and his sons are born in exile."
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"Arthur: If I asked you where the hell we were, would I regret it?Ford: We're safe.Arthur: Oh good.Ford: We're in a small galley cabin in one of the spaceships of the Vogon Constructor Fleet. that I wasn't previously aware of."
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"The number of ways you can live in one lifetime is limitless. So why limit yourself? The sky is NOT the limit. Beyond the universe is."
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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."
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"I look forward to the day when the solar system becomes our collective backyard-explored not only with robots, but with the mind, body, and soul of our species."
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"Explore the depth of the sacred world."
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"When you've been everywhere, tried it all and done it all, what's left is the exploration of self, intellectually and sexually, through curiosity and erotica."
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