Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
CARL SAGANNature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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We are all stardust.
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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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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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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.
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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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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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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.
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