Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
CARL SAGANThe significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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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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Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
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We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock.
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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