"Who are you, a hundred years from today, reading my poetry with curiosity?"
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"The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity"
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"A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of curiosity."
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"Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. Every advance into knowledge opens new prospects, and produces new incitements to farther progress."
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"I'm full of curiosity."
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"And didn't they say that, although curiosity killed the cat, satisfaction brought the beast back?"
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"Curiosity is one of the many masks of love."
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"I would teach how science works as much as I would teach what science knows. I would assert (given that essentially, everyone will learn to read) that science literacy is the most important kind of literacy they can take into the 21st century. I would undervalue grades based on knowing things and find ways to reward curiosity. In the end, it's the people who are curious who change the world."
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"Kids are born curious about the world. What adults primarily do in the presence of kids is unwittingly thwart the curiosity of children."
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"As any good teacher knows, the methods of instruction and the range of material covered are matters of small importance as compared with the success in arousing the natural curiosity of the students and stimulating their interest in exploring on their own."
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"Without wishing to damp the ardor of curiosity or influence the freedom of inquiry, I will hazard a prediction that, after the most industrious and impartial researchers, the longest liver of you all will find no principles, institutions or systems of education more fit in general to be transmitted to your posterity than those you have received from your ancestors."
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"The three ingredients of poetry: the mystery of the universe, spiritual curiosity, the energy of language."
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"What had made me move through so many dead and pointless years was curiosity."
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"I have always lived with the awareness of the impossibility of living. And what has made existence endurable to me is my curiosity as to how I would get from one minute, one day, one year to the next."
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"I have only one curiosity left: death."
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"One of my few virtues - I don't have a lot of them - would be a deep sense of curiosity. I'm interested in how other people live in other places; I'm interested in other cultures."
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"My skepticism is strong, but my curiosity is stronger."
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"Where the apple reddens never pry - lest we lose our Edens, Eve and I."
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"Curiosity is the beginning of the mind, Wonder is the end of the mind."
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"You cannot regard your own life with objective curiosity all the time."
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