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• We need affordable space travel to inspire our youth, to let them know that they can experience their dreams, can set significant goals and be in a position to lead all of us to future progress in exploration, discovery and fun. Thanks to the X Prize for the inspiration.

  Burt Rutan

  Dream, Travel, Fun

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• They have just succeeded in raising the two thousand pounds here, by subscription, that was wanted towards an exploration fund, for fitting out an expedition, that will probably start for the interior of our continent next March.

  William John Wills

  Travel, Two, Next

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• I hope that China will continue with space exploration. It would be logical to have international co-operation. I hope that it will come about and that I can be involved in it.

  Leroy Chiao

  Space, Would Be, Logical

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• Exploration is wired into our brains. If we can see the horizon, we want to know what's beyond.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Brain, Horizon, Want

  "Buzz Aldrin: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. August 25, 2012.

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• An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

  Charles Dickens

  Halloween, Creativity, Ideas

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• The real origin of science fiction lay in the seventeeth-century novels of exploration in fabulous lands. Therefore Jules Verne's story of travel to the moon is not science fiction because they go by rocket but because of where they go. It would be as much science fiction if they went by rubber band.

  Philip K. Dick

  Real, Moon, Land

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• We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Inspirational, Life, Beauty

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1967). “Aug. 1949-Feb. 1953”

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• That is the exploration that awaits you! Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Inspirational, Stars, Nebula

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The most important thing to remember about drunks is that drunks are far more intelligent than non-drunks- they spend a lot of time talking in pubs, unlike workaholics who concentrate on their careers and ambitions, who never develop their higher spiritual values, who never explore the insides of their head like a drunk does.

  Shane MacGowan

  Spiritual, Work, Drinking

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• Silence kills the soul; it diminishes its possibilities to rise and fly and explore. Silence withers what makes you human. The soul shrinks, until it's nothing.

  Marlon Riggs

  Gay, Justice, Diversity

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• Every day some new fact comes to light - some new obstacle which threatens the gravest obstruction. I suppose this is the reason which makes the game so well worth playing.

  Robert Falcon Scott

  Life, Light, Discovery

  Robert Falcon Scott, Max Jones (2008). “Journals: Captain Scott's Last Expedition”, p.114, Oxford University Press

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• Every generation has the obligation to free men's minds for a look at new worlds . . . to look out from a higher plateau than the last generation.

  Ellison Onizuka

  Responsibility, Men, Space

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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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• Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing. Do things without always knowing how they'll turn out.

  Randall Munroe

  Inspirational, Life, Knowing

  Webcomic by Randall Munroe, xkcd.com.

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• My vision is a future for humanity where we will be completely free to pursue activities outside of our planet.

  Franklin Chang Diaz

  Freedom, Future, Humanity

  "Rocket Scientist". Interview with Josh Seftel, www.pbs.org. May 1, 2009.

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• I think humans will reach Mars, and I would like to see it happen in my lifetime.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Thinking, Space, Mars

  "Cosmic Currency: PayPal and SETI Developing Space Cash System". www.space.com. June 27, 2013.

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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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• I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.20, Princeton University Press

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• The trick is to keep exploring and not bail out, even when we find out that something is not what we thought.

  Pema Chodron

  Bail, Tricks, Exploring

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.6, Shambhala Publications

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• Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

  Mark Twain

  Travel, Fun, Adventure

  Mark Twain (2008). “The Innocents Abroad”, p.650, Velvet Element Books

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• The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started.

  T. S. Eliot

  Travel, Adventure, Science

  Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 5 (1942)

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• My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Travel, Reading, Writing

  "An Interview with Ryszard Kapuscinski: Writing about Suffering". Interview With Thomas Wolfe, quod.lib.umich.edu. 1998.

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• So, I decided that whatever I was, wanted to do with my life, it would have to do, it would have to have something to do with the exploration and doing new things.

  Duane G. Carey

  Wanted, New Things, Decided

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• If I wasn't doing this kind of exploration, I'd like to be doing some other kind of exploration. It might be more risky, or less risky, but, in the business of exploration, risk is part of the territory.

  John L. Phillips

  Risk, Might, Territory

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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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