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• I have a notion that if you are going to be spiritually curious, you better not get cluttered up with too many material things.

  Mary Oliver

  Follow Your Dreams, Clutter, Notion

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• My friends are all really nice about my fame, they're just curious really, they ask lots of questions.

  Emma Watson

  Friends, Nice, Fame

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it.

  Prince Charles

  Attitude, People, History

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.

  Oswald Chambers

  Book, Reading, Men

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• Not only did I enjoy the creative side of Playboy and enjoy being surrounded by people who are curious about life, but I also love the analytical and hard business side of it.

  Christie Hefner

  Creativity, People, Life Is Hard

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is a curious phenomena that God has made the hearts of the poor, rich and those of the rich, poor.

  Vinoba Bhave

  Heart, Rich Poor, Made

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• It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.

  Beatrice Webb

  Writing, Identity, Would Be

  Beatrice Webb, Beatrice Potter Webb (1979). “My Apprenticeship”, p.280, Cambridge University Press

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• India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country.

  Anita Desai

  Country, Past, Modern India

  "Class Interview with Anita Desai". www.baruch.cuny.edu. 2003.

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• Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown.

  Thomas Hardy

  War, Bars, Crowns

  "The Man He Killed" l. 17 (1909)

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• It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Order, Envy, May

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• For nobody is curious, who isn't malevolent.

  Plautus

  Curiosity

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• It is curious to observe what different ideals of happiness people cherish, and in what singular places they look for this well-spring of their life. Many look for it in the hoarding of riches, some in the pride of power, and others in the achievements of art and literature; a few seek it in the exploration of their own minds, or in search for knowledge.

  Helen Keller

  Art, Spring, Pride

  Helen Keller (2012). “Optimism”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Promise, Curiosity, Literature

  "Put Out More Flags". Book by Evelyn Waugh, 1942.

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• In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Birthday, Age, Aging

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• It's curious how we act in moments of personal despair.

  Lawrence Welk

  Despair, Moments

  Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1973). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”

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• Curious people who have become accustomed to think that one cannot sustain the moral of the army without giving it the freedom to shed blood from time to time.

  Moshe Sharett

  Army, Thinking, Blood

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• And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.

  Pam Grier

  Art, Waiting, Entertainment

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• Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another.

  Norman Mailer

  Motivational, Organization, Growth

  Norman Mailer (1972). “Existential errands”, Signet

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• Without aggression, it becomes possible to think well, to be curious about differences, and to enjoy each other's company.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Thinking, Differences, Enjoy

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2007). “Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time”, p.240, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• I am a curious person and, believe it or not, I really do like to sit back and listen to people's stories.

  Nina Blackwood

  Believe, People, Stories

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• I began by doing physical yoga, initially just for the workout, as exercise. I would get peaceful and calm at the end of it, and I was curious about that.

  Mariel Hemingway

  Workout, Yoga, Exercise

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• Be curious, learn and read as much as you can about food. Don't worry about making money. Focus on learning at various venues before you settle down for a steady position.

  Rocco DiSpirito

  Worry, Focus, Making Money

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• The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings.

  Rita Dove

  Thinking, Shadow, Cheerful

  Rita Dove, Earl G. Ingersoll (2003). “Conversations with Rita Dove”, p.141, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I'd be curious to find out, but I don't think people in the entertainment industry are proportionally more or less serious politically than anyone in the landscaping industry.

  David Cross

  Thinking, People, Entertainment

  "Let America Laugh". Interview with Dan Hoyle, www.alternet.org. January 1, 2004.

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• Well, I was passionately curious about what my body was doing, and when I got the lessons on how to meditate, it seemed really solid to me. It seemed real.

  Mariel Hemingway

  Real, Body, Lessons

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