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Carl Sagan Quote - Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.

Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.

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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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One of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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