Mr Savall says his curiosity to discover ancient music is insatiable, as is his gift to share and to reinvent.

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Lack of curiosity also led Mr Bush to suspect intellectuals in general and academic experts in particular.

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Returning as a student, like Mr Owings, he was met with polite curiosity, not the hostility he had feared.

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It was that curiosity, and generosity of spirit, that Mr Mahfouz wished to prevail in his city.

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Mr Rosengard is a bass player in the Philadelphia Orchestra, whose curiosity began with his own instrument.

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Mr. Lynch embraced transcendental meditation around the time he made the 1977 curiosity "Eraserhead, " and since 2005 has headed the David Lynch Foundation, a charity he created to fund the teaching of T.

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Mr McKinnon, arrested in November 2002, has always maintained that he was motivated by curiosity and that he only managed to get into the networks because of lax security.

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