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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 J. Boorstin
1914-, American Historian
We shall not
cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will
be to arrive where we started... and know the place for the
first time.
-- T. S. Eliot
1888-1965, American-born
British Poet, Critic
It is easier
to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and
cannibals, in a government ship, with five hundred men and
boys to assist one, than it is to explore the private sea,
the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean of one's being alone. It is
not worth the while to go round the world to count the cats
in Zanzibar.
-- Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist,
Poet, Naturalist
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