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Carl Sagan Quote - If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.

If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.

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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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