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A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars – billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.

Carl Sagan

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
CARL SAGAN

Creature Love Vast
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

Book Content Finish Library Lifetime Percent Reading Time Trick Week
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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Awake Citizen Deserve Mind Species Understand Work World
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

Book Content Finish Library Lifetime Percent Reading Time Trick Week
If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
CARL SAGAN

Deserve Destroy Justice Science Truth
Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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Book Permit Time Voyage Wisdom
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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desperatel Determination Preference Prejudice Puzzle True Truth Want Work
The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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Awful Place Pretty Science Space Universe Waste
We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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Cosmic Deep Science
Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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Exception Exrinction Rule Survival
The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
CARL SAGAN

Brain Feeling Goodness Joy Muscle Understand
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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Assemble Book Leaf Print Tree
Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
CARL SAGAN

Disturb Glory Stupidity
We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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Help Life Look Science
Every star may be a sun to someone.
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Deep One Liner Stars Sun
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
CARL SAGAN

Dependent Exquisite Live Science Society Technology

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