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• What can be more curious than that the hand of a man, formed for grasping, that of a mole for digging, the leg of the horse, the paddle of the porpoise, and the wing of the bat, should all be constructed on the same pattern?

  Charles Darwin

  Horse, Men, Hands

  Charles Darwin (1872). “The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life”, p.441

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• The curious fascination in this job [U.S. representative] is the illusion that either you are being useful or you could be -- and that's so tempting.

  Millicent Fenwick

  Jobs, Fascination, Illusion

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• To exclude religious teaching altogether from education... is a very dangerous and curious tendency. The result is to give paganism a new importance and influence.

  Nicholas Murray Butler

  Christian, Religious, Teaching

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• I am the most curious of all to see what will be the next thing that I will do.

  Jacques Lipchitz

  Art, Next

  Cited by Bertie Charles Forbes in Forbes Magazine, Volume 149, No. 5-9, p. 424, 1992.

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• You need to be curious one way or another as a designer. Your eye has to stay curious. I look at people and think about how they live. I think about bodies.

  Michael Kors

  Eye, Thinking, People

  Interview with Lauren Hutton, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 20, 2011.

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• I'm always curious about how actors cry on film.

  Anne Hathaway

  Actors, Cry, Film

  "Anne Hathaway, Hugh Jackman, Amanda Seyfried, Eddie Redmayne, and Samantha Barks Talk LES MISERABLES, Singing, and Bonding on Set". Press Conference, collider.com. December 23, 2012.

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• A person who is inherently and intuitively curious is often intellectually and distinctly very serious towards his roles and responsibilities in life.

  Anuj

  Responsibility, Roles, Serious

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• The curious beauty about African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad story.

  Nelson Mandela

  Uplifting, Stories, African Music

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• True listening is never self-effacement. We bring the whole self to the process, rather than denying self. When we truly listen, we aren't just waiting for someone else to decide something so we can get on with things, or so we don't have to decide for ourselves. We aren't giving away our own powers to be seen and heard. When we listen, first we listen to the parts of ourselves that are curious, in avoidance, afraid, angry, or proud. Then we can take a breath and sink, allowing those parts some space alongside the spaciousness of not knowing.

  T. Thorn Coyle

  Self, Knowing, Space

  T. Thorn Coyle (2013). “Make Magic of Your Life: Passion, Purpose, and the Power of Desire”, p.34, Weiser Books

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• Without the ability to think about yourself, to reflect on your life, there’s really no awareness, no consciousness. Consciousness doesn’t come automatically; it comes through being alive, awake, curious, and often furious.

  Maxine Greene

  Thinking, Alive, Consciousness

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• Inherited ideas are a curious thing, and interesting to observe and examine.

  Mark Twain

  Ideas, Interesting

  Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.59, Createspace Independent Pub

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• Ants are a curious race

  Robert Frost

  Race, Ants

  Robert Frost (1963). “Selected poems”

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• ... a curious superstition. This is the belief that, if there be introspection at all, it must give exhaustive and infallible information.

  C. D. Broad

  Giving, Information, Superstitions

  C.D. Broad (2014). “The Mind and Its Place in Nature”, p.284, Routledge

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• Adultery itself in its principle is many times nothing but a curious inquisition after, and envy of another man's enclosed pleasures: and there have been many who refused fairer objects that they might ravish an enclosed woman from her retirement and single possessor.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Time, Retirement, Envy

  Jeremy Taylor (1847). “The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living”, p.127

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• Little minds mistake little objects for great ones, and lavish away upon the former that time and attention which only the latterdeserve. To such mistakes we owe the numerous and frivolous tribe of insect-mongers, shell-mongers, and pursuers and driers of butterflies, etc. The strong mind distinguishes, not only between the useful and the useless, but likewise between the useful and the curious.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Strong, Mistake, Butterfly

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.160, OUP Oxford

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• It is a curious thing how poets tend to become ascetics.... Even a debauch for them is a self-flagellation. They go on the loose in cruelty against themselves, admitting that they are pandering to, and despising, the lower self.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Self, Poetry, Admitting

  D. H. Lawrence, George J. Zytaruk, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.95, Cambridge University Press

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• A few major opportunities, clearly recognizable as such, will usually come to one who continuously searches and waits, with a curious mind, loving diagnosis involving multiple variables. And then all that is required is a willingness to bet heavily when the odds are extremely favorable, using resources available as a result of prudence and patience in the past.

  Charlie Munger

  Past, Opportunity, Odds

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• The east is not for me--the sensuous spiritual voluptuousness, the curious sensitiveness of the naked people, their black, bottomless, hopeless eyes.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Spiritual, Eye, People

  D.H Lawrence (1995). “The Sayings of D. H. Lawrence”, p.43, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• London has now become almost like a gigantic frog! With its long tongue it draws curious insects from all over the world inside itself!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Long, World, London

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• There is no coherent knowledge , i.e. no uniform comprehensive account of the world and the events in it. There is no comprehensive truth that goes beyond an enumeration of details, but there are many pieces of information , obtained in different ways from different sources and collected for the benefit of the curious. The best way of presenting such knowledge is the list - and the oldest scientific works were indeed lists of facts, parts, coincidences, problems in several specialized domains.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Facts, Events, Details

  Paul Feyerabend, Paul K. Feyerabend (1987). “Farewell to Reason”, p.98, Verso

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• It is curious that nearly all the great fortunes are made by turning beautiful things into ugly ones. Making beauty out of ugliness is very ill-paid work.

  E. Nesbit

  Beautiful, Ugly, Made

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• Almost everybody wore a curious limpidity of expression, like newborn babies or souls just after death. Dazed but curiously dignified.... after a criseof hysterical revulsion and tiredness, I passed beyondand became entered by a rather sublime feeling.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Baby, Peace, War

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• Isn't all religions curious? If they weren't you wouldn't get anyone to believe them.

  Sean O'Casey

  Believe, Ifs

  Sean O'Casey (1932). “Juno and the Paycock: A Tragedy in Three Acts”, Samuel French

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• Isn't it curious how completely ignorant we all are of the most important part of our bodily mechanism. It is really criminal. Yet there is no nation in the world that doesnt surround sex with fantastic walls. Of course ours are sillier than any-but not much.

  John Dos Passos

  Sex, Wall, Ignorant

  John Dos Passos (1973). “The Fourteenth Chronicle: Letters and Diaries of John Dos Passos”, Harvard Common Press

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• I see and hear daily that you of the Clergy preach one against another, teach one contrary to another, inveigh one against another without charity or discretion. Some be too stiff in their old mumpsimus, others be too busy and curious in their new sumpsimus. Thus all men almost be in variety and discord.

  Henry VIII of England

  Men, Charity, Busy

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