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The American experience stirred mankind from discovery to exploration. From the cautious quest for what they knew (or thought they knew) was out there, into an enthusiastic reaching to the unknown. These are two substantially different kinds of human enterprise. (Daniel Boorstin)[][]
At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be infinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. (Henry David Thoreau)[][]
Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart. (Salman Rushdie)[][]
Each generation's job is to question what parents accept on faith, to explore possibilities, and adapt the last generation's system of values for a new age. (Frank Pittman)[][]
Since philosophy is the exploration of the rational, it is for that very reason the apprehension of the present and the actual, not the erection of a beyond, supposed to exist, God knows where, or rather which exists, and we can perfectly well say where, namely in the error of a one-sided, empty, ratiocination. (George Hegel)[][]
Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go. (E.L. Doctorow)[][]
If there were no mystery left to explore life would get rather dull, wouldn't it? (Sydney Buchman)[][]
Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit. (Frank Borman)[][]
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