Quote by Alistair Cooke
Curiosity...endows the people who have it with a generosity in arg

Curiosity…endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will. – Alistair Cooke

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It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it. – Alistair Cooke

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Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted. – Francis Beaumont

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Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you; you must acquire it. – Sudie Back

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I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. – Albert Einstein

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Although there may be nothing new under the sun, what is old is new to us and so rich and astonishing that we never tire of it. If we do tire of it, if we lose our curiosity, we have lost something of infinite value, because to a high degree it is curiosity that gives meaning and savour to life. – Robertson Davies

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