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• The things that keep nagging at you are the ones worth exploring.

  Evan Williams

  Nagging

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• Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.

  Isabelle Eberhardt

  Life, Travel, Contentment

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• An intuitive grasp of your character is formed by exploring scenes of profound emotional import-moments of overwhelming shame, joy, fear, pride, regret, forgiveness.

  David Corbett

  Regret, Character, Pride

  "The Art of Character: Creating Memorable Characters for Fiction, Film, and TV". Book by David Corbett, January 29, 2013.

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• Exploring Mars is a far different venture from Apollo expeditions to the moon; it necessitates leaving our home planet on lengthy missions with a constrained return capability.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Home, Moon, Leaving

  Buzz Aldrin, Leonard David (2013). “Mission to Mars: My Vision for Space Exploration”, p.166, National Geographic Books

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• You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Life, Roles, Cinema

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• Take faith, for example. For many people in our world, the opposite of faith is doubt. The goal, then, within this understanding, is to eliminate doubt. But faith and doubt aren't opposites. Doubt is often a sign that your faith has a pulse, that it's alive and well and exploring and searching. Faith and doubt aren't opposites, they are, it turns out, excellent dance partners.

  Rob Bell

  Our World, Opposites, People

  "The Gift of Doubt" by Shea Watts, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 4, 2015.

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• Anybody who travels knows that you're not really doing so in order to move around - you're traveling in order to be moved. And really what you're seeing is not just the Grand Canyon or the Great Wall but some moods or intimations or places inside yourself that you never ordinarily see when you're sleepwalking through your daily life.

  Pico Iyer

  Wall, Moving, Order

  "The Art of Stillness". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. June 4, 2015.

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• If we're really committed to growth, we never stop discovering new dimensions of self and self-expression .

  Oprah Winfrey

  Self, Expression, Growth

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know For Sure”, p.153, Macmillan

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• If we die, we want people to accept it. We are in a risky business, and we hope that if anything happens to us, it will not delay the program. The conquest of space is worth the risk of life.

  Gus Grissom

  Inspirational, Life, Death

  "Gemini : A Personal Account of Man's Venture Into Space". Book by Virgil I. Grissom, 1968.

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• Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.

  Andre Breton

  Fate, Finding Yourself, Trying

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• A lawyer’s either a social engineer or … a parasite on society … A social engineer [is] a highly skilled, perceptive, sensitive lawyer who [understands] the Constitution of the United States and [knows] how to explore its uses in the solving of problems of local communities and in bettering conditions of the underprivileged citizens.

  Charles Hamilton Houston

  Engineering, America, Community

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• Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Travel

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.479, Courier Corporation

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• When someone we love is having difficulty and is giving us a bad time, it's better to explore the cause than to criticize the action.

  Zig Ziglar

  Family, Friends, Moving

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Nov 02, 2014

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• The key to maintaining your inspiration in the day-to-day work of meditation practice is to approach it as play—a happy opportunity to master practical skills, to raise questions, experiment, and explore.

  Thanissaro Bhikkhu

  Inspirational, Happy, Buddhist

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• Do there exist many worlds, or is there but a single world? This is one of the most noble and exalted questions in the study of Nature.

  Albertus Magnus

  Inspirational, Nature, Science

  "Discovering the cosmos". Book by R.C. Bless, p. 686, 1996.

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• You discover how confounding the world is when you try to draw it. You look at a car, and you try to see its car-ness, and you’re like an immigrant to your own world. You don’t have to travel to encounter weirdness. You wake up to it.

  Shaun Tan

  Discovery, Car, Trying

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• Filming in India was one big adventure. For 'The Cheetah Girls', we were in Mumbai for two weeks, then Rajasthan for six weeks. Every day after shooting, I would hop into a rickshaw and start exploring the city. I even learned a bit of Hindi. It's such an amazing place to visit.

  Michael Steger

  Girl, Adventure, Cities

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• Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Library

  Walter Savage Landor (1836). “Pericles and Aspasia”, p.205

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• I've been exploring a lot of different avenues with a number of very different and very, very exciting filmmakers and writers. That's been the trip. I like to find something very, very different from the last thing I did, which might be similar to something I've done before, but as long as it's different from the last thing I did, it keeps me entertained.

  Dan Stevens

  Long, Different, Done

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• I want to keep learning, keep exploring, keep doing more.

  Jessye Norman

  Want, Keep Learning

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• Lost is just another word for exploring.

  Sandy Gingras

  Lost

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• Yoga is not just about living better. It is about exploring the very source of life.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Yoga, Meditation

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• My theory in anything you do is to keep exploring, keep digging deeper to find new stuff.

  Blythe Danner

  Digging, Stuff, Theory

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• Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

  Edwin Powell Hubble

  Motivational, Travel, Adventure

  Edwin Powell Hubble (1954). “The Nature of Science: And Other Lectures”

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• Exploring how you could make a bad situation worse can sometimes tell you what not to do.

  Harvey Mackay

  Sometimes, Situation, Bad Situations

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