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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.

Carl Sagan

One of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
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Adult Children Gift Reading Society Spring
If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.
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Book Content Finish Library Lifetime Percent Reading Time Trick Week
Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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Atheist Emotion Fools Liable Ourselves Strong
What an astonishing thing a book is.
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Astonish Book One Liner
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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Awake Citizen Deserve Mind Species Understand Work World
The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
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Apple Blood Calcium DNA Interior Nitrogen Stars Teeth
Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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Deception Demonstrate Emotion Human
Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
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Accommodation Admire Enough Faith God Strive Truth Universe
Arguments from authority carry little weight, authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.
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Argument Authority Expert Future Mistake Past Weight
Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
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Cosmic Disagree Finding Galaxy Human Love Mercy Perspective Precious
Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
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Book Century Flower Lie Promise Seed Soil
There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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Delicate Forbidden Matter Scare Science Sensitive Truth
The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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Hostile Indifference Universe
The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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Brain Feeling Goodness Joy Muscle Understand
Your god is too small for my universe.
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Atheist God Universe
And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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Biology Cell Science

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