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Exploration Quotes
"No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time."
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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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"The trip changed all that. Stirring the murk of a life ill-fitting, Something More was perceptible though without name or form. Something More was the genesis of a map, not one handed to me but rendered with each step taken, a skill seasoned by a cruise gone bad."
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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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"Writing evinces the soul of an active mind and every era produced persons whom devoted their being to exploring the mysteries of life, seeking to discern answers pertaining how to resolve the complexities and paradoxes of life."
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"The pursuit of illusion is not about studying for prizes, or for study's sake. There's no right or wrong, no pass or fail."
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"The world you see, nature's greatest and most glorious creation, and the human mind which gazes and wonders at it, and is the most splendid part of it, these are our own everlasting possessions and will remain with us as long as we ourselves remain. So, eager and upright, let us hasten with bold steps wherever circumstances take us, and let us journey through any countries whatever: there can be no place of exile within the world since nothing within the world is alien to men."
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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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"Ride your rainbow from end to end, enjoy each hue, seek ii'ts legend."
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"You do not have to know which path you must take. That's not how life works. You simply must be curious and daring enough to take a step into the unknown. That's how you come to know."
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"When you travel, somehow, the world gets both bigger and smaller, simultaneously."
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"Explorers like to pretend that they are a select breed of people with iron nerve and an ability to endure terrible hardship."
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"Why travel to the Moon or Mars if we only continue our wars there with Russia or China or Africa? Why build rockets at all? For fun? For adventure? Or is this the same process that sends the salmons back upstream year after year to spawn and die - a subliminal urge in mankind to spread, in self-preservation, to the stars? Are we then secretly fearful that one day the sun might freeze and the the earth grow cold or the sun explode in a terrific thermal cataclysm and burn down our house of cards?"
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"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..."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"The greatest danger to man in space was man himself."
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"Explore the deep ocean."
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"We were just looking at maps..."
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"Go where imagination takes you-- not where others have gone before."
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"Learning voyage, the greatest adventure."
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"Those wanderers must have looked on Earth, circling safely in the narrow zone between fire and ice, and must have guessed that it was the favourite of the Sun's children."
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"Life is a great adventure."
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"Life is an experiment in which you may fail or succeed. Explore more, expect least."
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"If you do not begin to search, then you cannot find anything."
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"It was lonely for a day or so until one morning some man , more recently arrived than I, stopped me on the road. 'How do you get to West Egg village?' he asked helplessly. I told him. Ans as I walked on I was lonely no longer. I was a guide, a pathfinder, an original settler. He has casually conferred on me the freedom of the neighborhood."
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"Life is a worthwhile adventure."
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"Sometimes you must do crazy things to discover the life beyond your life, to enter the unknown zone beyond your known zone!"
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"We work to discover and release the potential of the earth around us."
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"Life is a daring adventure. I am enjoying every bit of the joyful journey."
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"Don't be too stereotyped, be ready to explore new opportunities."
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"The big blank spaces in the map are all being filled in, and there's no room for romance anywhere."
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"Something hidden. Go and find it. Go and look behind the Ranges -- Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go!"
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"Pessimists never go on a voyage of discovery, equally so they never leave the shoreline in search of new horizons."
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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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"Muscat is like a mind-altering drug. A stroll in its streets is like getting drunk for the first time."
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"Dream to reach the stars, awaken to reach the edge of the universe."
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"You ought to explore, search and seek the unlimited possibilities in life."
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"The lack of information is what makes one go to the desert in search of some seafood."
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"Those footprints in the snow led me to this wildfire."
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"Each person is a vast territory of undiscovered mystery as nebulous and uncharted as the deepest oceans and expanses of space."
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"We are always searching for a cave to fit in."
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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."
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"Sometimes we have absolutely no idea where we are, we need the smallest clue to show us where to begin."
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"Searching for a lost city is a particularly European obsession."
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