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Exploration Quotes
"We are always searching for a cave to fit in."
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"Marco's answers and objections took their place in a discourse already proceeding on its own, in the Great Khan's head. That is to say, between the two of them it did not matter whether questions and solutions were uttered aloud or whether each of the two went on pondering in silence. In fact, they were silent, their eyes half-closed, reclining on cushions, swaying in hammocks, smoking long amber pipes.Marco Polo imagined answering (or Kublai Khan imagined his answer) that the more one was lost in unfamiliar quarters of distant cities, the more one understood the other cities he had crossed to arrive there."
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"Searching for a lost city is a particularly European obsession."
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"All I needed for the mind was to be led to new stations. All I needed for the heart was to visit a place of greater storms."
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"But first whom shall we sendIn search of this new world, whom shall we findSufficient? Who shall tempt, with wand'ring feetThe dark unbottomed infinite abyssAnd through the palpable obscure find outHis uncouth way, or spread his aery flightUpborne with indefatigable wingsOver the vast abrupt, ere he arriveThe happy isle?"
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"Adventure, opportunity and reward extend beyond our field of vision, and are made known to us only when we test our wings."
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"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."
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"I always get lost in the library,' he said, 'no matter how many times I go. In fact, I think I get lost there more, the more that I go. Like it's getting to know me and revealing new passages."
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"Life is an experiment in which you may fail or succeed. Explore more, expect least."
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"But ironically the believers have done worse in exploring the earth than sons of men who are not even believers have done."
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"If you do not begin to search, then you cannot find anything."
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"Adults follow paths. Children explore."
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"Life is a daring adventure. I am enjoying every bit of the joyful journey."
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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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"Don't let fear cripple you and keep you from trying new things, changing things, exploring and living a life of adventure. Be courageous, be brave. A whole life is out there just waiting to be lived. Don't wait until it is too late. Seize the opportunity and seize the day. Don't allow yourself to get caught in regret by limiting yourself and your life. Life passes by very quickly. Make the most of every day!"
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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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"The greatest danger to man in space was man himself."
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"Explore those things you do that are satisfying."
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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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"Wars fought over a face like this, he murmured like he was talking to himself, my heart stopped beating and his thumbs moved lightly across my cheeks. 'A man would work himself into the ground for it, go down to his knees to beg to keep it, endure torture to protect it, take a bullet for it, his eyes came to mine, 'poison his brother to possess a face like this."
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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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"We work to discover and release the potential of the earth around us."
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"Don't be too stereotyped, be ready to explore new opportunities."
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"We are all roamers of vast spaces and travelers in many ages."
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