"I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity."
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"As I lounged in the Park, or strolled down Piccadilly, I used to look at everyone who passed me, and wonder, with mad curiosity, what sort of lives they led. some of them fascinated me. Others filled me with terror."
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"Science surrounds you. It's not something that you can step aside, step over or push out of your way because you were never good at science in school. Science is around you. Once you know and embrace that fact, it might stimulate curiosity within you to learn more about the natural world."
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"Curiosity is unknown. All adults were once kids and once curious, but as adults you don't remember that and you see curiosity when it's expressed in children as a pathway to household disaster. They're simply exploring their environment, manifesting their curiosity. So what you need to do is create an environment where curiosity is rewarded rather than punished, or thwarted."
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"Curiosity can bring guts out of hiding at times, maybe even get them going. But curiosity usually evaporates. Gust have to go for the long haul. Curiosity's like a fun friend you can't really trust. It turns you on and then it leaves you to make it on your own - with whatever guts you can muster"
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"First really like is just a little bit foolishness as well as a lot of curiosity. No actually self-respecting girl would reap the benefits of it."
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"You're only a beginner; and what you think is love, and interest, and all that, is not real love at all: three quarters of it is only unsatisfied curiosity."
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"Sister, you're trying to keep me alive as an old curiosity, but I'm done, I'm finished, I'm going to die."
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"I am a sort of collector of religions: and the curious thing is that I find I can believe in them all."
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"If you just tell the story of what the storys about, then it sparks curiosity, but I think it also arouses suspicion, as you say, that it could be overly sentimental. But it so isnt. And I think it was all about doing the inner work and then underplaying everything."
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"I am a journalist and have no earthly motives except curiosity and personal vanity."
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"People die when curiosity goes.People have to find out, people have to know. How can there be any true revolution till we know what we're made of? 830"
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"Children, be curious. Nothing is worse (I know it) than when curiosity stops. Nothing is more repressive than the repression of curiosity. Curiosity begets love. It weds us to the world. It's part of our perverse, madcap love for this impossible planet we inhabit. People die when curiosity goes. People have to find out, people have to know."
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"The man who thrusts his manners upon me does as if he were to insist on introducing me to his cabinet of curiosities, when I wished to see himself."
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"burning with curiosity"
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"Curiosity creeps into the houses of the unfortunate and the needy under the name of duty or of pity."
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"With Charles Woods, it was the first time I had ever seen tissue from a dead person used to save a human life. It piqued my curiosity."
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"Curiosity should be as carefully cherish'd in children, as other appetites suppress'd."
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"Curiosity is a gift, a capacity of pleasure in knowing, which if you destroy, you make yourself cold and dull."
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"…their eager, childlike attention was refreshing to see as compared with the decent, deathlike apathy of weary civilized people, in whom natural curiosity has been quenched in toil and care and poor, shallow comfort."
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