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Carl Sagan Quote - The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.

The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.

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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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Astonish Book One Liner
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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Book Dead Glance Hear Perhaps Reading Time Voice Voyage
Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.
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Alone Coordinate Deal Greatness Information Intelligence Judgement Knowledge Manner Smart Used
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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Earth Harbor Life
Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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Book Break Human Magic Proof Time Work
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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Business Carry Imagination Inspirational World
We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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Courage Depth Significance World
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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Beach Earth Grain Number Planet Sand Science Stars Universe
Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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Ecstasy Kind One Liner Understand
We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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Harvest Stars Stuff Sunlight
Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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Deception Demonstrate Emotion Human
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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Arena Cosmic Earth Stage Vast
The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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Exclusive Mutual Notion Science Spiritual
The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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Anticipation Anxiety Future Pay Price
If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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Earth Environment Nature Place Ruin
Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
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Advance Agriculture History Live Lost Medicine Save Science Vast War
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
Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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Blind Citizen Distant Greatness Human Invention People Togetherness Writing
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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Act Celebration Cosmic Magnificant Merge Modest Scale Understand
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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Depth Different Giving Involvement Love Number Perhaps Relationship
Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
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Avoid Cause Human Ignorance Misery Ourselves Particular Stupidity
If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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Accumulate Destroy Ourselves Power Sure Wisdom
We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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Help Life Look Science
There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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Atom DNA Galaxy Molecule Science Stars Typical
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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Awesome Cling Destroy Humanity Live Rock Sun Universe Vast World
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
We all have a thirst for wonder. It’s a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it.
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Bound Human Quality Religion Science Thirist Wonder

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