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Carl Sagan Quote - 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.

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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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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The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what’s true.
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I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.
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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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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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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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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.
CARL SAGAN

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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
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The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
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Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.
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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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Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
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