Wordgrove Post & Review

THIS EDITION: curiosity

Quoted In The Grove:
If there’s one thing I’ve learned in my life, it’s that curiosity might kill cats, but it doesn’t kill people.
~Tracy Morgan

Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance.
~Harry Lorayne

If you’re curious, you’ll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats.
~Diane Sawyer

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Dozens of journalists die from curiosity every year. Lives sacrificed for truth and a byline, they are the future’s guardian angels and their names shine. You can see their halos glow through the smoke.
~author unknown

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Exercise Prompt for October sometime: road :: path

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As children we all possess a natural uninhabited curiosity, a hunger for explanations, which seems to die slowly as we age ‒ suppressed, I suppose by the need not to appear ignorant.
~Mahlon Hoagland

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Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
~Aldous Huxley

Kids are born curious about the world. What adults primarily do in the presence of kids is unwittingly thwart the curiosity of children.
~Neil deGrasse Tyson

Kids are naturally curious about what they don’t know, or don’t understand, or what is foreign to them. They only learn to be frightened of those differences when an adult influences them to behave that way and censors that natural curiosity.
~Aimee Mullins

We’re born with a curiosity about the universe. Those people who don’t have a curiosity don’t have it because it’s gotten beaten out of them in some way.
~Kip Thorne

Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
~R D Laing

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We read our children stories starring elephants and monkeys and bears to teach them about nobility, curiosity and courage, to warn them against selfishness and stubbornness.
~Lydia Millet

As a child, I was consumed with a near-obsessive curiosity about what the world felt like for other creatures.
~John Burnside

I call horses ‘divine mirrors’ – they reflect back the emotions you put in. If you put in love and respect and kindness and curiosity, the horse will return that.
~Allan Hamilton

It is important to sensitise children about animal behaviour as it will help develop a healthy curiosity towards nature.
~Amala Akkineni

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The fabled musk deer searches the world over for the source of the scent which comes from itself.
~Ramakrishna

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Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. The great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.
~John Locke

Kids and adults alike are having their curiosity drained away by boredom in class or the workplace, and by the unremitting background noise of a dumbed-down pop culture.
~Sal Khan

The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline… because you need to be alone to find out anything.
~Vivienne Westwood

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
~Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784)

The young generation has a different curiosity that is more visual.
~Jurgen Klinsmann

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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
~E M Forster

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The best scientists and explorers have the attributes of kids! They ask question and have a sense of wonder. They have curiosity. ‘Who, what, where, why, when, and how!’ They never stop asking questions, and I never stop asking questions, just like a five year old.
~Sylvia Earle

For me, when I think of curiosity on television, a lot of times my childhood was shaped by shows on PBS that encouraged and embraced curiosity.
~Wyatt Cenac

I don’t remember being a child, and that’s why I think I’m so child-like now in my unending curiosity and approach to life.
~Marianne Wiggins

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As children, our imaginations are vibrant, and our hearts are open. We believe that the bad guy always loses and that the tooth fairy sneaks into our rooms at night to put money under our pillow. Everything amazes us, and we think anything is possible. We continuously experience life with a sense of newness and unbridled curiosity.
~Yehuda Berg

All children are born with stars in their eyes, and they are curious. It is important for teachers to be careful not to kill this curiosity. A lot can go wrong. Children can be teased, even by teachers.
~May-Britt Moser

In an era of parental paranoia, lawsuit mania and testing frenzy, we are failing to inspire our children’s curiosity, creativity, and imagination. We are denying them opportunities to tinker, discover, and explore ‒ in short, to play.
~Darell Hammond

Childhood, after all, is not an ending, but rather a state full of potent curiosity.
~Rachel Cusk

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Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.
~Augustus William Hare & Julius Charles Hare

I was lucky enough at a young age to find out what I had a passion for, but whatever you’ve got a curiosity for, just give it a shot.
~Seth Rollins

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Posted From The Grove

Be very wary of any attempt, by anybody or anything, to limit the ultimate human right and duty to question and verify the truth.
~author unknown

It takes a perverse determination to drain that instinctive curiosity away and make history seem just remote, dead and disconnected from our contemporary reality. Conversely, it just takes skilful storytelling to recharge that connection to make the past come alive in our present.
~Simon Schama

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It’s necessary to understand what real intelligence work is. It will never cease. It’s absolutely essential that we have it. At its best, it is simply the left arm of healthy governmental curiosity. It brings to a strong government what it needs to know. It’s the collection of information, a journalistic job, if you will, but done in secret.
~John le Carre

Here’s the teaching point, if you’re teaching kids about intelligence and policy: Intelligence does not absolve policymakers of responsibility to ask tough questions, and it doesn’t absolve them of having curiosity about the consequences of their actions.
~George Tenet

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Disruptors are the ones with a keen sense of how the world is changing and how to get in front of change, driven by curiosity. The disrupted ‒ not so much.
~Cathy Engelbert

In politics there is plenty of division, hostility, tribalism, posturing; but there’s almost no curiosity. Instead of wondering why someone holds a certain set of beliefs and asking how they came to them, it is easier to gather a mob and silence opposing viewpoints by force.
~Lisa Kennedy Montgomery

I listen to my political rivals sometimes with fear and trembling, sometimes with awe, sometimes with near panic, but always with a curiosity of nuances, curiosity for the language, curiosity for the story behind the ‘impossible’ position.
~Amos Oz

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The real hallmarks of humanity are: curiosity and an amazing ability to cooperate.
~Alice Roberts

I have survivor’s curiosity, I guess.
~George H W Bush

I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to see why they’re doing what they’re doing, taking a dig at them ceases to be what you want to do even if you hate them.
~A S Byatt

You will get the most attention from those who hate you. No friend, no admirer and no partner will flatter you with as much curiosity.
~Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The curiosity of the human mind is essential if you want citizens who think rather than accept the first nonsense they come to.
~Francois Englert

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I’m vociferously against any ban in the society. You have to educate people instead. When you ban something, you invoke in them the curiosity to find more about that.
~Alok Nath

The curiosity to see the prisoners appears to be unabated.
~Lewis Tappan

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Each story we approach in the same way, with curiosity and interest and determination to get behind the image.
~Martin Bashir

I love when stories have something a little magical in them, and there’s wonder and curiosity. Somewhere there are people living these improbable stories, and our job is to go out and find them and bring them to the page.
~Michael Paterniti

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.
~ Charles Lamb

As a print journalist, you can be frustrated by people who don’t call you back, parts of the story you can’t get. TV gets you access to everyone because people call you back. It also allows you to satisfy your curiosity. I am a very curious person.
~Tucker Carlson

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My job is to have empathy and curiosity for things that I’ve never done. Also, I’m a person whom people talk to.
~Richard Ford

I had this unusual mix of curiosity, the ability to write in ways people understood, and when I appeared, viewers seemed to trust me to get them through some cataclysmic changes.
~Tom Brokaw

Oprah has this intense curiosity that I haven’t found with any interviewer.
~Genevieve Gorder

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I have a natural curiosity about the world, and I just love to talk.
~Danielle Campbell

The first interviews I gave were entirely unpleasant. You have people trying to trip you up with impolite questions that have nothing to do with the books. It’s simply vulgar curiosity, and I won’t have it.
~Patrick O’Brian

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For me, the real pleasure in writing is in having an excuse to pursue my curiosity about people who have meant something to me.
~Robert Gottlieb

Doing a documentary is about discovering, being open, learning, and following curiosity.
~Spike Jonze

As a documentarian, you think, ‘Follow your curiosity.’
~Ron Howard

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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
~Edmund Burke

Entertainment that is fact-based is, I think, where people really learn the most, because they’re leaning in, their curiosity is stimulated and they’re being entertained.
~Ron Howard

The ‘information novel’ shouldn’t be a curiosity. It should be absolutely mainstream.
~Richard Powers

The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.
~William Winwood Reade

The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers.
~Bryan Magee

The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment.
~Daniel Bell

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As a black man, I actually had naturally sort of comedic curiosity about the Klan.
~W Kamau Bell

In America, mixed-race identity tends to invite both curiosity and suspicion, largely because few have found a way to interrogate it without centering whiteness as the scale by which to evaluate blackness.
~Jenna Wortham

Obama’s presence opened a new field for writers, and what began as curiosity about the man himself eventually expanded into curiosity about the community he had so consciously made his home and all the old, fitfully slumbering questions he’d awakened about American identity.
~Ta-Nehisi Coates

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The human brain had a vast memory storage. It made us curious and very creative. Those were the characteristics that gave us an advantage ‒ curiosity, creativity and memory. And that brain did something very special. It invented an idea called ‘the future.’
~David Suzuki

I think people are curious at some level, and they want to alter their current state of being. I mean, that could be from curiosity, that could be from stress, that can be from some other sort of ailments or problem that they are experiencing or could just be from boredom, but humans have always attempted to alter their consciousness.
~Carl Hart

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Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
~Richard Feynmann

They know enough who know how to learn.
~Henry Adams

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The open mode is a mood in which curiosity for its own sake can operate, because we’re not under pressure to get a specific thing done properly. We can play.
~John Cleese (Monty Python)

It’s sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It’s about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.
~Adam Savage

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I would have thought he would be there out of just plain curiosity. It was incredible that he was missing.
~James Kirkwood

Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.
~Alistair Cooke

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Curiosity is the one blank check one gets to write in life. For good or ill, it enriches with the cache of experience. One gets charged in the consequence.
~author unknown

I think that everybody should go out there and test their curiosity, find a haunted place.
~Zak Bagans

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~Archiv Mediathek: The Queen’s Bodyguard Story (1:28) you’ve seen it, but it’s warm and wonderful

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~ATTIC Film: Curiosity (3:51) dangerous dance, or interpretive acrobatics

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~LEVEL Visuals: Curiosity (1:29) Faulkner speaks to the artist

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~melodysheep: Richard Feynman • Curiosity (2:98) Feynman speaks for the scientist

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~Reid Gower: The Feynman Series (4:23) another perspective

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~Point of Uncertainty: The Beauty of Mathematics (2:21) clips from the movies: math satisfying curiosity

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I move around a lot. I’ve lived in a ton of different places ‒ and only for a month or two at a time. I have a deep, rabid curiosity, so I like having a gypsy life.
~Hilarie Burton

Despite having seen a fair amount of the world, I still love travelling ‒ I just have an insatiable curiosity and like looking out of a window.
~Michael Palin

The travel impulse is mental and physical curiosity. It’s a passion. And I can’t understand people who don’t want to travel.
~Paul Theroux

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I started traveling out of curiosity, but I have come to believe in travel’s political importance, that encouraging a nation’s citizenry to travel may be as important as encouraging school attendance, environmental conservation, or national thrift. You cannot understand the otherness of places you have not encountered.
~Andrew Solomon

Because of my capacity for listening to strangers’ tales, or the details of their lives, my patience with their food and their crotchets, my curiosity that borders on nosiness, I am told that anyone traveling with me experiences an unbelievable tedium, and this is why I choose to travel alone.
~Paul Theroux

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Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you; you must acquire it.
~Sudie Back

Can watching video lessons or using interactive software make people smart? No. But I would argue that it can do something even better: create a context in which people can give free rein to their curiosity and natural love of learning so that they realize they’re already smart.
~Sal Khan

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.
~Arnold Edinborough

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The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
~Anatole France

I think the best learning takes place when you create an atmosphere of curiosity and excitement.
~Michael Rosen

Being in front of a class full of kids, you are giving a performance. You have to get their attention. You’ve got to awaken their curiosity. You become a bit of an entertainer.
~Jeremy Wade

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My Alma mater was books, a good library… I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
~Malcolm X

Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don’t always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.
~Caroline Kennedy

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If a subject excites us, if it stirs our deepest curiosity, or if we have to learn because the stakes are high, we pay much more attention. What we absorb sinks in.
~Robert Greene

Standardized testing is at cross purposes with many of the most important purposes of public education. It doesn’t measure big-picture learning, critical thinking, perseverance, problem solving, creativity or curiosity, yet those are the qualities great teaching brings out in a student.
~Randi Weingarten

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
~Albert Einstein

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There is always a place I can take someone’s curiosity and land where they end up enlightened when we’re done. That’s my challenge as an educator. No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don’t ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.
~Neil deGrasse Tyson

Curiosity is the process of asking questions, genuine questions, that are not leading to an ask for something in return.
~Brian Grazer

There are no foolish questions, and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions.
~Charles Proteus Steinmetz

It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
~Robert Louis Stevenson

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The era we live in we see child are more advanced then us. And that is why they need knowledge even on sex before they involve themselves in crime because of curiosity to know about sex.
~Rakhi Sawant

My mother has a lot of sisters. They had very, very interesting conversations. Because I was a quiet child, I would sit in the room and listen to these stories. I think I developed a curiosity about the life of other people from that, and an interest in looking at what was lying beneath the layer of what people present in public.
~Ayobami Adebayo

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.
~Richard Whately

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I had a full college experience. I kind of learned how to be a good student at Bard. I had never really cared about academics, but in college I learned the power of ‒ I don’t want to say the power of knowledge, but the power of curiosity.
~Pauline Chalamet

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.
~William Arthur Ward

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Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear and superstition.
~Bernard Beckett

As I get older, the more I stay focused on the acceptance of myself and others, and choose compassion over judgment and curiosity over fear.
~Tracee Ellis Ross

Replace judgment with curiosity.
~Lynn Nottage

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will; indeed, it has led many people into dangers which mere physical courage would shudder away from, for hunger and love and curiosity are the great impelling forces of life.
~James Stephens

Do not let the weight of fear weigh down curiosity.
~Peter Guber

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Everybody in Spain is sick of me. But in America, there’s curiosity about the new kid on the block who doesn’t speak English very well. The attention makes me feel vulnerable, which is something I hadn’t felt in a while. But I like it.
~Javier Bardem

Our human face happens to be one of the most powerful channels that we all use to communicate social and emotional states: everything from enjoyment, surprise, empathy, and curiosity.
~Rana el Kaliouby

Since most heroes are doing villainous roles these days, that thrill is lost. Earlier, there used to be a hero, a heroine, a villain and such. The villain’s entry would generate a lot of curiosity among the audience back then.
~Ranjeet

My curiosity sustains me for the period of the shoot.
~Daniel Day-Lewis

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It’s my approach as a filmmaker always to go in, not with a thesis or preconceived notion, but with curiosity and questions and inquiry. …whether my subjects are James Carville or Anna Wintour or Dick Cheney, I am always surprised. I’m always finding paths of engagement.
~R J Cutler

I really moved through my career based on curiosity about something. I never looked at a title and said, ‘I want that.’
~Anne Sweeney

It is only from the people I’ve had the good fortune to meet that I am learning the lessons to guide me. Baz Luhrmann, director of ‘Moulin Rouge,’ for example, has a childlike curiosity about the world. He doesn’t pretend to know all the answers ‒ quite the opposite, in fact. He asks loads of questions of everyone.
~Simon Sinek

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We have to accept that making movies is a never-ending process of occasional progress, frequent setbacks, and unexpected curveballs being thrown our way. Navigating that process requires stamina, curiosity, openness, and creative fire.
~Karyn Kusama

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Few people in contemporary art demonstrate much curiosity. The majority spend their days blathering on, rather than trying to work out why one artist is more interesting than another, or why one picture works and another doesn’t.
~Charles Saatchi

Art fairs are a lot like professional proms ‒ you make contacts, have a lot to look at, and in some cases, you make friends forever. I think that for artists, they can be a bit controversial: they stimulate curiosity, but at the same time, you’re always trying to not have your work hung on a wall.
~Maurizio Cattelan

I love art so much because of curiosity. At the start of a painting, I know 10 percent of what the painting will be, and then I have to improvise the whole thing.
~Fernando Botero

Whether it’s a poem I’m working on or a picture I’ve snapped, it all has to do with the curiosity I feel without thinking about it.
~Gerard Malanga

You can’t do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.
~John Singer Sargent

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There’s certainly something very uncomfortable about the voyeurism involved in being in the press, being an actor, where people have a seemingly insatiable curiosity about, you.
~Claire Danes

What stars do in their off-hours is a never-ending source of diddling curiosity to the tabloid sensibility.
~James Wolcott

I have to grit my teeth sometimes, knowing I am going to be written about. But I think it is my life, and I don’t want to get people interested in debating it. But I do feel that if you are going to put yourself about as a public person on a television screen, there’s a curiosity.
~Jonathan Dimbleby

What I can’t completely understand is most other people’s fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the rest of their bodies. Why do ordinary people become the target of this curiosity simply by virtue of the fact that other people recognise their names and faces but know almost nothing else about them?
~Alan Alda

It’s that invasive and puerile curiosity to feed a tabloid culture. I don’t subscribe to it.
~John Byrne

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When I began modelling I was completely unprepared for the onslaught of curiosity it carried with it.
~Sophie Dahl

I am not normally a fan of organised tours: few public figures are, feeling themselves objects of constant curiosity.
~Ann Widdecombe

I think a lot of people are curious about what makes people do what they do, and I guess my curiosity isn’t hidden in any way.
~Karin Slaughter

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I don’t want to be just the latest curiosity.
~Terence Trent D’Arby

When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
~Irvin D Yalom

People get jaded in every profession, but for some reason, I feel as passionate as when I was 13 years old and just released my first album. I feel the same amount of adrenaline in my blood, and the same amount of curiosity as well. Curiosity about why I’m different.
~Shakira

Great personal style is an extreme curiosity about yourself.
~Iris Apfel

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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
~Oscar Wilde

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
~Marie Curie

What is the meaning of ‘gossip?’ Doesn’t it originate with sympathy, an interest in one’s neighbor, degenerating into idle curiosity and love of tattling? Which is worse, this habit, or keeping one’s self so absorbed intellectually as to forget the sufferings and cares of others, to lose sympathy through having too much to think about?
~Lucy Larcom

I have an inate curiosity about people.
~Martin Bashir

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
~Alexander Pope

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~Markus Markou: Two Strangers Who Meet Five Times (12:11) karma as a curiosity set piece

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~Mike Ozman: Resignation (13:11) in sci-fi, what does, “I’ll see you later” mean

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~Omeleto: Lonely Planet (24:32) traveling, a life alone

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~Omeleto: La Boulangerie (13:11) foreign intruders, the same everywhere; saccharine and sweet, but syrupy

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Standing still is the fastest way of moving backwards in a rapidly changing world. Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
~Lauren Bacall

None of us can afford to stop learning or to check our curiosity about new things, or to lose our humility in the face of new situations.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

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One of the fundamental discoveries I made about myself ‒ early enough to make use of it ‒ was that I am driven to seize life and to understand it. The motor that pushes me is propelled by more than scientific curiosity.
~Craig Venter

God spare me sclerosis of the curiosity, for the curiosity which craves to keep us informed about the small things no less than the large is the mainspring, the dynamo, the jet propulsion of all complete living.
~John Mason Brown

Curiosity is the engine of achievement.
~Ken Robinson

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You can’t just give someone a creativity injection. You have to create an environment for curiosity and a way to encourage people and get the best out of them.
~Ken Robinson

I don’t like to boss people around. I don’t get motivated by telling people what to do, I don’t take any pleasure in it. So I manage with curiosity, by asking questions.
~Brian Grazer

I want people to believe in themselves. I want intellectual curiosity. I want someone who realizes that they don’t know it all and that they’re dying to learn.
~Kevin Plank

Curiosity at work isn’t a matter of style. It’s much more powerful than that. If you’re the boss, and you manage by asking questions, you’re laying the foundation for the culture of your company or your group. You’re letting people know that the boss is willing to listen.
~Brian Grazer

As a leader, I believe it’s important to have an open door with your staff. Those who want to learn and to grow in their careers will walk through that door and into your life.
~Raney Aronson-Rath

Pay attention to those employees who respectfully ask why. They are demonstrating an interest in their jobs and exhibiting a curiosity that could eventually translate into leadership ability.
~Harvey Mackay

The best in business have boundless curiosity and open minds.
~Robin S Sharma

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The new normal is continuous learning, and we look for people who demonstrate lots of different interests and really demonstrate curiosity.
~Julie Sweet

What happened was I saw this ad for a yogurt plant for sale. It was in my junk mail pile, and I threw it into the garbage can. And then about half an hour later, with the dirt on it, I picked it up from the garbage can, and I called out of curiosity.
~Hamdi Ulukaya

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It’s a business driven by curiosity. If you don’t want to go out and learn about the world and see the place, it’s the wrong business. But if you do… I’ve had an unbelievable front row seat.
~David Muir

Entrepreneurship requires an unvanquished spirit of curiosity, an openness to learning, a letting go of OldCo so you’re free to create NewCo.
~Michael Gerber

Around here, however, we don’t look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we’re curious… and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
~Walt Disney (Example, on Twitter: 0:56 )
https://twitter.com/jasteinerman/status/1568948580752269312

thx to Rusty’s Electric Dreams

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Maybe I’m just like a child. I’m full of curiosity about things, and it’s fine as long as it’s fun at that time, yet at the same time, I hate things that are tough.
~Akira Toriyama

I have always had a curious nature; I enjoy learning, but I dislike being taught.
~Winston Churchill

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A burning itch to know is higher than a solemn vow to pursue truth. To feel the burning itch of curiosity requires both that you be ignorant, and that you desire to relinquish your ignorance.
~Eliezer Yudkowsky

Curiosity is a willing, a proud, and eager confession of ignorance.
~S Leonard Rubinstein

Mere curiosity adds wings to every step.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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The gratification of curiosity rather frees us from uneasiness, than confers pleasure. We are more pained by ignorance, than delighted by instruction. Curiosity is the thirst of the soul.
~Samuel Johnson

Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.
~William Wirt

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There are two sorts of curiosity – the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.
~Robert Wilson Lynd

There are two possible outcomes: If the result confirms the hypothesis, then you’ve made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you’ve made a discovery.
~Enrico Fermi

There are different kinds of curiosity; one of interest, which causes us to learn that which would be useful to us; and the other of pride, which springs from a desire to know that of which others are ignorant.
~François de la Rochefoucauld

Curiosity is what keeps me open to a sense of hope. It staves off negativity.
~Carrie Brownstein

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§ MUSIC:

Popularity gets up people’s noses. But I understand the importance and the function of popular music. There is an artistic purpose. Popular music helps people to develop a curiosity and leads them towards classical music.
~Andrea Bocelli

I think when it comes to pop I’m past the point of curiosity. I admit to a full-on obsession with it, and I think it’s getting worse, actually.
~Carly Rae Jepsen

I’m into old-time music; I’m not very interested in modern, popular music at all. And if I’m really into some particular old-time musician, some fiddler or banjo player, I’m always dying of curiosity to see what they look like. So there’s some connection between visual images and music.
~Robert Crumb

The music played most around St. Louis was country-western and swing. Curiosity provoked me to lay a lot of the country stuff on our predominantly black audience. After they laughed at me a few times, they began requesting the hillbilly stuff.
~Chuck Berry

I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.
~Elvis Costello

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You’re changing every day, right? Your curiosities and ambitions change, your ear changes, the music you like changes ‒ and the music you want to make, too.
~Ryuichi Sakamoto

I don’t analyze songs because I think it will make me a better songwriter, I just do it out of sheer curiosity.
~Finneas

I feel blessed that I found not just a profession, but a 24/7 way of life that I purely love. That curiosity to be current, to listen to the Hozier album, to be early in recognition of a Lorde and spending time with her and Miguel, the pleasure of seeing new talent erupt… I love it.
~Clive Davis

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Many dancers are content with the repertoire they’re given. Others are dissatisfied but don’t know why. Then there are a few like me that are curious and grab at everything. Can that curiosity thrive in the ballet world, or should it exist elsewhere? That’s the eternal question.
~David Hallberg

The whole point here, and the seed that JJ Abrams laid in my mind is, is the power of curiosity enough? What happens next? That dramatic construct is what has driven soap operas and serialised novels over the course of history.
~Peter Molyneux

The one thing that ‘Via Dolorosa‘ has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuable as opinion.
~David Hare

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People ask me, ‘Don’t you ever run out of ideas?’ Well, on the first place, I don’t use ideas. Every time I have an idea, it’s too limiting and usually turns out to be a disappointment. But I haven’t run out of curiosity.
~Robert Rauschenberg

Curiosity is a great weapon for the artist.
~Genesis P-Orridge

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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
~Ellen Parr

Never lose a holy curiosity.
~Albert Einstein

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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
~Thomas Hobbes

Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.
~Alistair Cooke

Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour.
~Victor Hugo

Curiosity is the direct incontinency of the spirit.
~Jeremy Taylor

Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.
~Bryant H McGill

Without curiosity, my dear, there would be no wise men.
~Fernand Lacaud

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Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

In such a case secrecy must be absolute to be effective, and although mere vague curiosity induced many persons of my intimate acquaintance to ask to be allowed to just go in and have a peep, I never admitted anyone.
~Henry Bessemer (refined steel manufacture)

Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.
~Sydney J Harris

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~Jason Mraz: Mr Curiosity (6:06) full concert in the course of a single song

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~Tom Rosenthal: Don’t Die Curious (2:41) a light and clever admonition

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~Carly Rae Jepson: Curiosity (3:46) curiosity is key

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~John Brawley: Curiosity (3:13) love at the cost of a friend

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~Emmanuel Grignon: Curiosity (1:27) the making of a vamp

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~Franz Ferdinand: Curious (2:58) with a NYC vibe

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~darrelljbrand: The Jets • Curiosity (4:26) nostalgia for high school dances

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~Amber Liu: Curiosity (4:21) K-POP fun

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~Romy Wave: Curious (3:56) she’s pretty, the song sweet

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~Francisco Rojos: Kid Creole and The Coconuts: Curiosity (4:43) they’re colorful, the song energetic

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~Havington: Curiosity (2:49) eyes to match their music

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Katica Illényi: Puccini • O Mio Babbino Caro (2:43) emulating platonic love, sweet music without touching ‒ on the theremin

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~Kris Kristofferson • Emmylou Harris: The Pilgrim, Chapter 33 (3:51) starts Kris talking about his heroes, then Emmylou sings his song

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~U2: I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For … pick one, just because

~Playing For Change (5:35) planet Earth has a choir
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJsWWTpagUQ

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U2 + Cospel Choir (4:27) an Edge introduction, Bono kicks off the song, disappears … it’s about the choir
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8Wt3dhF4fU

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~soyLEOagain: Sing 2 • Ash & Clay (3:11) animated inspiration
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqZMXKWRjwk

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~PostModern Jukebox: Rogelio Douglas, Jr (3:36) pure celebration
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EbLlgKFk9c

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Curiosity is often mistaken as love, since they both have the common elements of interest and passion.
~Drishti Bablani

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
~George Bernard Shaw

Love is three quarters curiosity.
~Giacomo Casanova

Curiosity is one of those insatiable passions that grow by gratification.
~Sarah Scott

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Curiosity is one of the many masks of love.
~Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Where the apple reddens never pry — lest we lose our Edens, Eve and I.
~Robert Browning

One of the things I’ve always loved about queer culture is the openness and passionate curiosity about love, desire and the myriad forms of affectionate ties.
~Stacey D’Erasmo

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I don’t need someone with a hot body. He can be fat or overweight and have a belly. It’s very much about style and substance and humor, interest, curiosity and really being smart.
~Kate Walsh

Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?
~Dick Cavett

‘The Big Sleep‘ would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart’s relation to the crime.
~Manny Farber

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Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.
~Russell Baker

As I grow older, I have a growing curiosity about my other half. My dad did a wonderful job raising me, and I wouldn’t change it for the world, but at the same time there is a growing curiosity about my other half.
~Apolo Ohno

I’m a strange mixture of my mother’s curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother’s father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts.
~Rupert Murdoch

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After my mom died, there was so much written about her fashion and her style and all that, and I felt that one of the most important parts of her was missing, her real intellectual curiosity.
~Caroline Kennedy

Intellectual and emotional curiosity is what I hope I’ve taught my children.
~Tony Robinson

My parents were always very supportive and accepting. They even shared my curiosity for life, or perhaps I theirs.
~Jason Mraz

I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

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Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.
~Ambrose Bierce

From the ages of 12 to 35 my body, not my mind, was my primary currency. My ideas, my humor, my curiosity – none of those were valued as much as my body, which preceded me into almost every room.
~Amanda de Cadenet

Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
~Victor Hugo

This delicate little plant [curiosity], aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom.
~Albert Einstein

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When I sat down to make a list of characters in history who exhibited curiosity, most were women. I thought it was sheer accident, and then I began to wonder.
~Margaret MacMillan

Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
~Victor Hugo

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To the young girl who fails to see opportunities around her: Awaken the intellectual curiosity within you. Go on, search for those opportunities and chase after them! Because when you are curious and in ‘search mode,’ you will meet a lot of people and learn, and when you find opportunities, you will be exhilarated rather than overwhelmed.
~Clemantine Wamariya

Lean into your curiosity about any issue, and there will likely be people to share a little bit more of their knowledge and insight and give you ideas on how to make change.
~Opal Tometi

You can find a mentor; you have to ask questions, you have to show interest in what the other person is doing. You have to have curiosity ‒ I think that people appreciate that and will want to help you.
~Nina Garcia

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Most Muslim women know it is fear and curiosity that cause people to stare. They know it is ignorance and stereotypes that cause people to suppose that a piece of material covering the hair strips a woman of the ability to speak English, pursue a career, work a remote control.
~Randa Abdel-Fattah

I think the very idea of character, of developing not just grit, but empathy and curiosity, emotional intelligence ‒ you know, the things that I want my own daughters to develop ‒ the idea that we’re going to get there through rewards and punishments seems completely at odds with the idea of character itself.
~Angela Duckworth

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Curiosity had twins — one was Invention and the other was Stick Yer Nose Into Things.
~Josh Billings

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
~Steven Wright

Oh, I learn things everywhere I go… why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what’s on the other side?
~George R R Martin

I like some of my stuff not to be particularly funny. It’s supposed to be amusing, entertaining or thought-provoking, like a curiosity. If you put it on in front of 500 people in the Odeon they wouldn’t laugh. They shouldn’t laugh.
~Limmy

Curiosity is looking over other people’s affairs, and overlooking our own.
~H L Wayland

While I find that I can keep my nose out of other people’s business, I do have a curiosity as to their non-business activities.
~Robert Brault

If you read someone else’s diary, you get what you deserve.
~David Sedaris

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Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
~Petrarch

Life runs to death as its goal, and we should go towards that next stage of experience either carelessly as to what must be, or with a good, honest curiosity as to what may be.
~James Stephens

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Ever since childhood, when I found out that the ultimate fate for all humans was death, sheer terror and morbid curiosity had been fighting for supremacy in my mind.
~Caitlin Doughty

Thinking about death makes you analyse what life is. Anxiety makes you curious, and curiosity leads to understanding. I wouldn’t be a writer without depression.
~Matt Haig

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
~Graham Greene

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I have known plenty of people who, in their later years, had the energy of children and the kind of curiosity and fascination with things like little children. I think we can keep that, and I think it’s important to keep that part of staying young. But I also think it’s great fun growing old.
~Johnny Depp

I have a great curiosity to see new things, but not to own them. It’s very peaceful this way, and one of the nice things about getting older.
~Lee Radziwill

I think life is about having the mixture of the curiosity of an older person and the imagination of a child.
~Daphne Guinness

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Curiosity is life. Assumption is death.
~Mark Parker

People die when curiosity goes.
~Graham Swift

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As we get older, people close down. We get less adaptive, less flexible ‒ literally. Curiosity can diminish, and you want safety. You want what you know.
~Holly Hunter

It’s a tender and complicated dance, watching our parents age. We become protective in ways we never were before, and we study them with a mix of sadness and curiosity: Is this what we will be like when we are their age? We tell ourselves to be patient – just answer the same question again as if it wasn’t answered a moment ago.
~Patti Davis

Often, ageing has more to do with your brain than your body. Some people become old and jaded at 25, and some, like my mother, have the curiosity of a child at the age of 94.
~Suhasini Mulay

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Let go of certainty. The opposite isn’t uncertainty. It’s openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are
~Tony Schwartz

I see myself as an avatar of curiosity and doubt.
~Adam Conover

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I have no curiosity. I’m an island boy.
~Derek Walcott

Under no condition can you teach curiosity.
~Brian Grazer

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
~Ralph W Sockman

It may be that our cosmic curiosity… is a genetically-encoded force that we illuminate when we look up and wonder.
~Neil deGrasse Tyson

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I’m a permanently curious person. I probably waste my time being curious about things that have got nothing to do with the business sometimes. What keeps me alive, certainly, is curiosity.
~Rupert Murdoch

Really, I’m only alive out of curiosity. I’m very curious about where we’re all marching.
~John Hurt

It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.
~Cicero

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© David Lorenz Winston

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Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
~Samuel Alexander

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
~Zora Neale Hurston

The biggest quest to learn anything is curiosity. If you are curious about something, you will go and dig.
~Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

I think of myself as quite a shy person. But when I’m curious about something, I’ll go quite far to satisfy my curiosity.
~Alain de Botton

‘Research,’ for me, is a big word that encompasses a lot of different activities, all of them based around curiosity. Research is traveling to places, or studying snowflakes with a magnifying glass, or excavating one’s memories. Research is walking around Hamburg with a notebook.
~Anthony Doerr

Most visitors to Amsterdam will wander into the red-light district out of sheer curiosity. The narrow streets are mostly safe day and night ‒ just don’t try to take pictures of the women working in the windows.
~David Hewson

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Here’s a news flash: scientists can be wrong. That’s no big deal (unless the scientist is you), since research is self-correcting. Consequently, most errors by scientists become historical curiosities, with little long-term importance.
~Seth Shostak

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Curiosity is a call from knowledge.
~Toba Beta

Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.
~James Harvey Robinson

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
~Joseph Addison

Curiosity and creating ideas ironically are both democratized; they cost no money, anyone can do them, and it’s up the individual and the force of their personality to give life to them.
~Brian Grazer

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Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton asked why.
~Bernard Baruch

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Curiosity might be pictured as being made up of chains of small questions extending outwards, sometimes over huge distances, from a central hub composed of a few blunt, large questions.
~Alain De Botton

It’s sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It’s about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.
~Adam Savage

Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will.
~Vernon Howard

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I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive.
~Albert Einstein

All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.
~Martin H Fischer

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I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.
~Franklin P Adams

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
~Arthur Schopenhauer

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Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking.
~Terence

Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
~Linus Pauling

I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.
~Albert Einstein

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Scientists appear most often in horror movies. Through childlike curiosity or God-defying hubris, they unleash destructive forces they can’t control – ‘Forbidden Planet’s Monsters of the Id.
~Virginia Postrel

I happen to love science… Scientists are all slightly mad. There is truth in the stereotype of the mad scientist. They are mad with curiosity.
~Richard Preston

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I wasn’t driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity.
~Jonathan Miller

Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.
~Aaron Klug

People go into science out of curiosity, not to win awards. But scientists are human and have ambitions.
~Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
~Albert Einstein

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Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.
~Thomas Sowell

There are two possible outcomes: If the result confirms the hypothesis, then you’ve made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you’ve made a discovery.
~Enrico Fermi

Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications.
~Hermann von Helmholtz

Science means constantly walking a tightrope between blind faith and curiosity; between expertise and creativity; between bias and openness; between experience and epiphany; between ambition and passion; and between arrogance and conviction ‒ in short, between an old today and a new tomorrow.
~Heinrich Rohrer

Now in the 21st century, the boundaries separating chemistry, physics, and medicine have become blurred, and as happened during the Renaissance, scientists are following their curiosities even when they run beyond the formal limits of their training.
~Peter Agre

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Please bear in mind that my observations and thoughts are the outcome of my own unaided impulse and curiosity alone; for, besides myself, in our town there be no philosophers who practice this art, so pray, take not amiss my poor pen and the liberty I here take in setting down my random notions.
~Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

When Twitter made its way to my radar I looked at it as a curiosity, then started experimenting. I approached that as a place to be less formal and more off-the-cuff, honest and ‘human.’
~Trent Reznor

What is the intersection between technology, art and science? Curiosity and wonder, because it drives us to explore, because we’re surrounded by things we can’t see.
~Louie Schwartzberg

Social media has created a digital latticework, but it has also, for some, created abusive commenters, silos, and validation rather than curiosity.
~Mary Pilon

Some advice: keep the flame of curiosity and wonderment alive, even when studying for boring exams. That is the well from which we scientists draw our nourishment and energy. And also, learn the math. Math is the language of nature, so we have to learn this language.
~Michio Kaku

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I would say that, as I matured, it became more a feeling of trying to avoid the waste that occurs in the world where we have 6.5 billion minds. If you’re a computer scientist, you can think of them as supercomputers.
~George M Church

Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
~G M Trevelyan

Any educated person recognizes that curiosity and creativity aren’t just important; they are among the essential human activities.
~Glenn Kelman

I do not know what got me interested in technology. What was very clear to me very early on was that I was not interested in religion and that naturally increased my curiosity about science and technology, and I fundamentally believe the two are conflicting.
~Vinod Khosla

Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.
~Freya Stark

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Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity.
~Mary Leakey

An understanding of the natural world and what’s in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.
~David Attenborough

One might almost say that the history of geographical discovery, properly so called, begins with Captain Cook, the motive of whose voyages was purely scientific curiosity.
~Joseph Jacobs

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@Writers Platform

In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop.
~Robert Benchley

I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.
~Anne Rice

I’d worked at a small town newspaper, and I was thinking of all the strange stories that I had seen float through the newsroom in my time there that were dismissed as kind of amusing curiosities. Somehow from that I got to this idea of an eccentric alcoholic who built a lighthouse in the woods.
~Michael Koryta

How these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such idle fellowes as I put them down.
~John Aubrey

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When Shakespeare begins his exposition thus he generally at first makes people talk about the hero, but keeps the hero himself for some time out of sight, so that we await his entrance with curiosity, and sometimes with anxiety.
~Andrew Coyle Bradley

What I have is a malevolent curiosity. That’s what drives my need to write and what probably leads me to look at things a little askew. I do tend to take a different perspective from most people.
~David Bowie

Everything I do is storytelling; storytelling is about curiosity.
~David Baddiel

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The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
~Ezra Pound

Poets have to be sensitive to their audience, but it does not mean that they censor themselves. I realise my audience is diverse. Some will read with empathy and curiosity while others will take offense.
~John Barton

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Literature is always about bygone times. It’s always looking back in time with a certain perspective. I look at bygone life which no longer exists, and as I said, I look at it without nostalgia but without anger, either. I look at it with criticism and with compassion. I look at it with curiosity.
~Amos Oz

In some ways, writing a novel, especially a novel set in the past and about characters who once lived, is about amassing enough details and arranging them properly in order to offer the reader a verisimilitude that satisfies his or her curiosity about the story at hand.
~David Ebershoff

In period pieces or genre pieces, those have to be set in historical truths. But, science fiction has different game pieces. And with those game pieces come other stories we’re not familiar with. So, science fiction teaches us how to relate to outsiders, to foreigners, and to not approach any of that with fear, but a genuine curiosity.
~Tamlyn Tomita

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Mostly I’m writing about people, so I feel constrained to take with me my view of people, my curiosity about how people choose the things they do and why they come to certain decisions in a certain fashion and all the things that drive most writers.
~Raymond E Feist

What fascinates me as a writer is the stuff underneath, To me, what drives a novel is the curiosity behind the character and the depths that you want to find in that character.
~David Bergen

Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.
~Fawn M Brodie

Curiosity is the best motive for writing: curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself.
~Michael Korda

The most amazing gift about being a novelist is that you get to pursue your curiosity every day.
~Anthony Doerr

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§ The Glass Table:

Breathy Voice

Thinking along a random thought
something undefined, became a’wrought

Trying to recall an inner song
words became a writhing throng

Clamorous ringing in my brain
can’t decifer a single refrain

Soul song raging to be let free
innermost urges within the depths of me

Slithering along the corridors so dark
waiting for the hope of a spark

Spilling out from fingertips
breathy voice from my full lips

~Greenie, of There.com

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I believe that curiosity, wonder and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers; that restlessness and discontent are vital things; and that intense experience and suffering instruct us in ways that less intense emotions can never do.
~Kay Redfield Jamison

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
~Samuel Johnson

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.
~Leo Burnett

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
~Samuel Johnson

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My own curiosity and interest are insatiable.
~Emma Lazarus

Curiosity did kill the cat, but I’m very curious.
~Brittany Murphy

I’m a dilettante. My governing word is ‘curiosity.’
~Ian Hacking

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I don’t find myself interesting as a person and the details I find boring, quite frankly. You could sum it up in a few words or sentences really: came from nothing. Self-educated. Luck. Energy. Curiosity. Ambition. That’s it. Nothing at all can illuminate the work as far as I can tell.
~Peter Ackroyd

Writing fiction is very different to writing non-fiction. I love writing novels, but on history books, like my biographies of Stalin or Catherine the Great or Jerusalem, I spend endless hours doing vast amounts of research. But it ends up being based on the same principle as all writing about people: and that is curiosity!
~Simon Sebag Montefiore

I’ve always looked upon research as an opportunity to satisfy my curiosity. But the other side of the coin is one must not be so caught up in it that one never gets the book written.
~Gayle Lynds

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The idea that a story has to be ‘exceptional’ in order to be worth telling is curious to me. What if we looked at every single person’s story as a site of possibly infinite meaning? What if we came to believe that there isn’t hubris or narcissism in thinking your story might be worth sharing ‒ only a sense of curiosity and offering?
~Leslie Jamison

To me, having the courage to tell your own story goes hand in hand with having the curiosity and humility to listen to others’ stories.
~Sarah Kay

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Interacting with different people who have different stories sparked my curiosity about what makes people not only good at what they do, but also good, period.
~Harrison Barnes

I suddenly realize why David Attenborough is the giant he is. It is not just his geographic curiosity, not just his anthropological understanding, not just his gift for narration that simultaneously calms the soul and inspires the mind. It is that behind it all there is such a deep thinker.
~Emily Maitlis

Yet everybody’s experience is really interesting. Or, if not their experience, then their unlived life. Or their desire. Their id. Their curiosity.
~Tom Burke

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More than anything else, I’m a very calm person in the sense that I don’t worry about the future and what my life could be. I just have to face it, and I’ll face it with enthusiasm as well as the desire and curiosity to test myself.
~Gianluigi Buffon

I eat healthily and exercise, and I’m not giving up and saying I’m too old ‒ I’m just determined to keep on marching with enthusiasm and interest and curiosity.
~Ellen Burstyn

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‘Carnival Row‘ is us looking at the stranger; ‘The Curiosity‘ is the stranger looking at us.
~Travis Beacham

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Prewritten Prompt: curiosity

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Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety; but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot.
~Samuel Horsley

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
~Oliver Goldsmith

I do have a peripatetic and active intellectual curiosity.
~Guy Kawasaki

Basically, life isn’t just about eating and partying ‒ we need to figure out unique ways in which we can add to our curiosity levels, besides satisfying the wanderer in us.
~Varun Sharma

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What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.
~Samuel Richardson

I loathe that low vice, curiosity.
~Lord Byron

Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling.
~Blaise Pascal

Curiosity is a kernel of the forbidden fruit which still sticketh in the throat of a natural man, sometimes to the danger of his choking.
~Thomas Fuller

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Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.
~Clarence Day

People are more inclined to ask curious questions, than to obtain necessary instruction.
~Pasquier Quesnel

The over-curious are not over-wise.
~Philip Massinger

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I’ve always been blessed, or cursed, some might say, with an insatiable curiosity, a desire to find something out about a people and a place. That’s where it all begins.
~Michael Palin

If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow.
~Rachel Carson

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It’s daring to be curious about the unknown, to dream big dreams, to live outside prescribed boxes, to take risks, and above all, daring to investigate the way we live until we discover the deepest treasured purpose of why we are here.
~Luci Swindoll

I suppose I’ve always had a very genuine curiosity about religion. I loved the atmosphere of churches, the ethos; I adored Evensong.
~Richard Coles

Those with less curiosity or ambition just mumble that God works in mysterious ways. I intend to catch him in the act.
~Damien Echols

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In Quanzhou, I have a lot of influence from superstition. I would go to the temple with my grandmother and mother. That is why I have a lot of curiosity about the unseen force and invisible things.
~Cai Guo-Qiang

Without transformation, you can assume you’re at a high moral, spiritual level just because you call yourself Lutheran or Methodist or Catholic. I think my great disappointment as a priest has been to see how little actual spiritual curiosity there is in so many people.
~Richard Rohr

Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
~Abraham Cowley

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The enemy of science is not religion. Religion comes in endless shapes and forms… The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.
~Frans de Waal

There are a lot of scientists or other people who can be very skeptical or rational within their field, but they may well not do that in other aspects of their lives, when it comes to things like religion, or what have you. People have this amazing gift for being selective with their curiosity and skepticism.
~Jamie Hyneman

Teenagers have a natural curiosity and are keen to clock up experiences. What they need to be wary of is that some experiences may erode their sense of self and lead to a fragmentation of morals.
~Alexandra Adornetto

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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
~John Burroughs

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§ The Exercise:

provocation

curiosity
it’s neighborly
also gossipy
shared in community
sharing with a penalty

a punch in the nose
versus blackened eye
now both sides cry
signed: The Joker
with impunity

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Hedda Led-Us

Invasive, bald curiosity
Prying style raw with audacity
Speed of light, spills at velocity
Scandal the brand, manners a paucity
Rude and impertinent, a karmic atrocity
Stage of the stars minted for you and me

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inquest

late questions arise
to no one’s surprise
the curious issue
of feline demise
the felicitous answers
that no one buys
the familiar feel
of similar lies
yet life goes on
and hope abides
mewlings manifest
with kittenish eyes

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the tooth will out

veracity overrated
stories prevaricated
curiosity vindicated
history predicated
fiction’s lies become outdated
statue’s stature much overstated
truth at last was indicated
carat gold not brassy plated

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Curiosity Unmasked

Pin prick to endeavor
Seduction to adventure
Permission to discover
Science’s prime numbers
Primary colors of culture
The hope for an answer
Our clue to forever
Yet certainty gets lost to:
However…

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the curiosity of clouds

they move, travel distances
change shape, shade and color
enroute
suffer embarrassments
at dawn and sunsets
leave no doubt of their moods
they live

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Do It’s Duet #20

Curiosity versus responsibility
One, reserved for the ‘other’
the unknown
Another, with the daily-familiar
the seed sown

One satisfied to read alone
One waiting to be outgrown
Both and neither to be outdone
Euphony not rancor shown
Sing together at the microphone

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definition #20

trees reaching for the sky
some call it growth
and the scramble for light
curiosity, i calls it

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guild: the lily

regimented instruction or guided-curiosity place
heavy weighted and freighted or good home base
noetic playground or troublesome workspace

task mastered or life mentored
open inquiry to malfeasance censured
or queries dodged, discussion censored

reenter past or map the future
heed the numbers, forget the posture
school not class may be an answer

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musings #20

token bow to One’s injunction
tune out warning’s sacred function
love for money’s prime instruction
faction-focus, design reaction

trappings of the rich religious
well-set traps for the superstitious
shared reach for wealth most egregious
but agreed with speed most expeditious

plaintiff railings most litigious
plaintive wailings most propitious
erase their failings most atrocious
courted answers some suspicious

Save the Children! Pave the Bay!
Fork the Future! We want our juice today!
Privilege of the Present, decide who lives in grey
Colors of the Past, the chase for rainbow gone astray

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Injunction

Curious, the crafting of words
Half-hearted crossing of swords
Teasing, inching toward middle ground
Find a way, dammit, make yourselves proud

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5s ‘n 7s

something strange-black on that hill
monolith or cave entrance
climb for it and earn the truth?
follow curiosity?
pass the binoculars, please

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a distant anomaly
invites curiosity
details need proximity
try for love botched terribly
caught fire spontaneously

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putting out fires
dance the Superpower Stomp
putting out fires
curious practice of sway
choice of lead or abdicate

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curiosity
choice fertilizer for seeds
random happenstance
soiled knowledge, dirt to plant in
plowed up hardpack for garden

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just learned something new
a mere step closer, it’s true
warm glow of pleasure
felt thru the dents and hard knocks
curiosity’s reward

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old age old cotton
worn, frayed and unraveling
never felt so good
unlike curiosity
fresh, itchy, brand spankin’ new

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how green the friendship
turned brown and sere from silence
same course as life, love
same as curiosity
if not for indifference

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Surveillance service?
Curiosity unhinged?
Get your spEye glAss now!

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wild-bred breed of thought
untamed curiosity
broke free the corral

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who-what-when-where-why
curiosity’s watchword
synonym: true-told

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wisdom: wise thru dumb
curiosity’s journey
two left feet thru hell

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The Olio and Salmagundi of Quotes

I try to be led by my curiosity.
~Lynn Nottage

I can just let my curiosity wander unleashed.
~James C. Collins

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Questions show the mind’s range, and answers its subtlety.
~Joseph Joubert

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
~Voltaire

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What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.
~Paulo Coelho

That feeling of being rewarded for your curiosity is huge. It’s why I play games, this idea of truly existing in a world.
~Cory Barlog

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A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by he who interests his heart in everything.
~Laurence Sterne

Turbines are a curiosity, but only once.
~Anne Murray

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A studio allows you to indulge your untidiness and your penchant for toys and curiosities that really wouldn’t work in a grown-up house.
~Jamie Cullum

Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.
~Daniel Boone

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The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
~Plutarch

Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
~John Muir

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The Olio
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