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The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change. ↗

— Carl Rogers

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I have no pretence to greater physical courage than my neighbours, but familiarity with a subject robs it of those vague and undefined terrors which are the most appalling to the imaginative mind. The human brain is capable of only one strong emotion at a time, and if it be filled with curiosity or scientific enthusiasm, there is no room for fear. ("The Brown Hand") ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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It is very odd to be standing in a locked room in the Penitentiary, speaking with a strange man about France and Italy and Germany. A travelling man. He must be a wanderer, like Jeremiah the peddler. But Jeremiah travelled to earn his bread, and these other sorts of men are rich enough already. They go on voyages because they are curious. They amble around the world and stare at things, they sail across the oceans as if there's nothing to it at all, and if it goes ill with them in one place they simply pick up and move along to another. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

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If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back. ↗

— Holly Black

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Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas. ↗

— Marie Curie

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I like John Kerry. I think he's intellectually curious and very thoughtful. I think he's deeply committed on issues like the environment. I think he's an internationalist, which I am. ↗

— Howard Dean

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I like all these little animals that run and eat and hide all the time. I like their faces, They seem to be scared and curious at the same time. ↗

— Catherine Deneuve

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. ↗

— Walt Disney

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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

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Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge. ↗

— James Thurber

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