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#1. The things that she took for granted gave the measure of those she had rebelled against.

Edith Wharton

#2. What the history of aviation has brought in the 20th century should inspire us to be inventors and explorers ourselves in the new century.

Bertrand Piccard

#3. Pioneering spirit should continue, not to conquer the planet or space ... but rather to improve the quality of life.

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#4. It's like if Ryan Gosling showed up at your door dressed like Noah from The Notebook, bearing flowers and whiskey. You'd be stupid not to take that bike for a ride.

Staci Hart

#5. The pioneering spirit is less about thinking up new ideas, as ridding ourselves of dogmas and habits that hold us captive in thinking.

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#6. The way the public sees it is this. If we don't leave, we are idiots. If we do leave but don't succeed in our mission, we are incompetent. But if we do succeed, it's because it was easy and anyone could have done it.

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#7. Exploration is the sport of the scientist

Auguste Piccard

#8. I came up with idea of a solar airplane flying around the world with no fuel - that would be a beautiful message in terms of technology, the energy of the future and the environment.

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#9. When I was a child, I saw my father diving to the deepest point in the ocean with the U.S. Navy.

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#10. We know that dreams fuel innovation.

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#11. The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.

Swami Vivekananda

#12. We're not trying to top ourselves with each record, obviously.

Bruce Johnston

#13. Spring is painted in daffodil yellows, robin egg blues, new grass green and the brightness of hope for a better life.

Toni Sorenson

#14. He would forget everybody's name, so everybody was called 'Pops'.

Helen Forrest

#15. Welcome to those who believe in the power of dreams and who would like to join me in my exploration of life.

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#16. I am with the angels and just completely happy.

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#17. In the 21st century, I think the heroes will be the people who will improve the quality of life, fight poverty and introduce more sustainability.

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#18. Prayer is not a substitute for work; it is an effort to work further and be efficient beyond the range of one's powers.

George Santayana

#19. A movie I must have seen 10 times is 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.' It's an old movie, but still such a beautiful message. If I had only one film I could take on my computer on a desert island, I would take 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.'

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#20. Adventure is something out of the usual pattern, a point at which you cannot avoid confronting the unknown, so that you have to dig inside yourself to find the courage and resources to deal with what may lie ahead, and to succeed.

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#21. I always knew Fitz would wind up writing; although I figured he'd be a poet or a storyteller. He would play with language the way other children played with stones and twigs, building structures for the rest of us to decorate with our imagination.

Jodi Picoult

#22. Nothing can prevent us from another day and night, and the myth of perpetual flight.

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#23. Very often, human beings are living like on autopilot, reacting automatically with what happens. What interests me about the life of an explorer is you are in the unknown; you are out of your habits.

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#24. People put limitations on their creativity, believing they have to rely on what they know and what they have done.

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#25. Before achieving a dream, you need to make very little steps ... People don't understand that when you want to make a big dream you have a lot of fastidious little things you have to do.

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#26. And what, if you don't mind me asking, is really important?"
Valkyrie holds her hand palm upwards, and it starts to glow from within. She smiles at him.
"Magic," she says.

Derek Landy

#27. I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Woody Allen

#28. My life and the life of my family has to do with exploration, with adventure. My grandfather was the first man in the stratosphere, and my father was the first to touch the deepest point in the ocean ... For me, adventure and exploration is something in the blood.

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#29. We are all prone to be a little selfish, a little lazy.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#30. [Smoking is] a dirty habit that should be banned from America by the Government, instead of moderate alcoholic drinking.

Auguste Piccard

#31. Radio was so important to everybody back then; there was no TV. Columbia Square was the epitome of radio. Everything was modern. It was beautiful.

Art Linkletter

#32. I'm learning kite surfing. It's a little surfboard you have on your feet with straps, and you have a big kite like a power glider in the air that pulls you. You don't need waves to move, and it makes a big spray of water as you go.

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#33. From one point of view becoming is a humiliation, and from another a royal procession.

Ananda K. Coomaraswamy

#34. I have come to the conclusion that just as the Japanese live to work, Asians live to eat.

Anastacia Oaikhena