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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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Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill scoured by a whiff of arrogance. – 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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Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense. – Fawn M. Brodie

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Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton asked why. – Bernard Baruch

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Be not curious in unnecessary matters: for more things are shrewd unto thee than men understand. – Bible

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Where the apple reddens never pry — lest we lose our Edens, Eve and I. – Robert Browning

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God gives some more than others because some accept more than others. – Ernest Holmes

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There has not yet been a major ground offensive battle… There are, we know, negotiations going on between the opposition forces and the Taliban leadership for surrender. – Peter Pace

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