"Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism."
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"See if you can approach your own practice with a healthy combination of mindfulness, playfulness, precision, and curiosity"
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"I've noticed that people who get married cease to be curious."
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"You need a lot of curiosity for a long, long time."
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"Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour."
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"The most important thing is a person. A person who incites your curiosity and feeds your curiosity; and machines cannot do that in the same way that people can."
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"The secret of success is an absolute ungovernable curiosity."
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"Curiosity pulls people into the scam."
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"Teach your scholar to observe the phenomena of nature; you will soon rouse his curiosity, but if you would have it grow, do not be in too great a hurry to satisfy this curiosity. Put the problems before him and let him solve them himself. Let him know nothing because you have told him, but because he has learnt it for himself. Let him not be taught science, let him discover it. If ever you substitute authority for reason he will cease to reason; he will be a mere plaything of other people's thoughts."
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"All the best essays are epistemological journeys from ignorance or curiosity to knowledge."
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"Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the other side?"
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"People of a lively imagination are generally curious, and always so when a little in love."
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"You might get nothing out of it at all except a beautiful, long life where all you did was follow your gorgeous curiosity. And that should be enough too."
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"Wonder implies the desire to learn."
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"Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery."
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"It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it."
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"Curiosity is not a sin.... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed."
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"I have been amazed by the Anglo-Saxon's lack of curiosity about the internal lives and emotions of the Negroes, and for that matter, any non-Anglo-Saxon peoples within our borders, above the class of unskilled labor."
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"A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself."
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"Women are terrified of being raped, but somewhere in the back of the womb there is one rebellious nerve end that tingles with curiosity whenever the word is mentioned."
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