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• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

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• You might like it as a joke or because you liked it then, but there isn't a whole new generation discovering Wham!.

  Rob Zombie

  Glowing, Zombie, Generations

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• The greatest grand challenge for any scientist is discovering how to prevent the spread of HIV and finding the cure or an effective vaccine for AIDS.

  Philip Emeagwali

  Vaccines, Challenges, Hiv

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• Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.

  John Barrymore

  Love, Beautiful, Girl

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• The deeper I get into my life as a musician, I'm discovering that it becomes less and less about other people, and more about what I want to do. And that's a good place to be.

  Billy Corgan

  People, Musician, Want

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• Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?

  Richard Dawkins

  Spring, Curiosity, World

  Richard Dawkins (2000). “Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder”, p.6, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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  The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Inspiring, Education, Wisdom

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

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• The thrill I got discovering Buster Keaton when I was growing up was so exciting. He was one of the greats.

  John Cleese

  Growing Up, Thrill, Busters

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• The secret of big and revolutionary actions also consists in discovering the tiny step that is simultaneously a strategic step, insofar as it entails additional steps in the direction of a better reality.

  Gustav Heinemann

  Reality, Secret, Tiny

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• Writing a poem is discovering.

  Robert Frost

  Writing

  1955 In the NewYork Times, 7 Nov.

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• One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

  Andre Gide

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "The Counterfeiters". Book by Andre Gide, 1925.

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• I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are.

  Victor Garber

  Believe, Acting, Where You Are

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.

  Aleister Crowley

  Wisdom, Science, Magic

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

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• Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

  Boris Pasternak

  Art, People, Ordinary

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• I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to have someone else to point out your mistakes is a shortcut of the process.

  Shelby Foote

  Mistake, Thinking, Shortcuts

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• A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Real Friends, Greatness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.406, Library of America

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• You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

  James Anthony Froude

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The nemesis of faith”, p.4

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• Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

  Matthew Arnold

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Sadness

  'Self-Dependence' (1852) l. 31

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• It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.

  Lucille Ball

  Happiness, Happy, Spring

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• People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.

  Saint Augustine

  Inspirational, Life, Faith

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book X, (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Discovery, Self, Treasure

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  All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

  Galileo Galilei

  Inspirational, Truth, Science

  "Angels in the workplace: stories and inspirations for creating a new world of work". Book by Melissa Giovagnoli, 1999.

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• Discovering witnesses is just as important as catching criminals.

  Simon Wiesenthal

  Important, Criminals, Catching

  Simon Wiesenthal (1976). “The sunflower”, Schocken

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• Pain is a difficult companion. There's no getting around that. But, if pain is to be a companion, searching and discovering your own best ways to travel with that pain will lead you to the joy that you long to have. They are your paths, your ways and while my experience and the experiences of others may inspire you, ultimately it will be the choices you discover and make for yourself that lead you to certain joy in the midst of your challenges.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Love, Leadership, Pain

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• It's a discovery of a story when I write a book, a case of inching ahead on each page and discovering what's beyond in the darkness, beyond where you're writing.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Book, Writing, Discovery

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