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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.

Carl Sagan

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
The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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Argument Cure Ideas Suppression
The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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Hostile Indifference Universe
I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.
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Assume Come Consideration Danger Extreme Ourselves Outside Problem Solution
We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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Destiny Hands Science Stars Stuff
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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Ancestor Door Family Favourite Live Night Program Sky Television
A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars – billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.
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Compose Dust Galaxy Gas Stars Sun
Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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Ash Rise Science Stars
Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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Distance Greatness Ignorance Mistake Perspective
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
Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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Elegant Imagination Nature Stuble
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 notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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Exclusive Mutual Notion Science Spiritual
We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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Dust Live Sun Suspend
Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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Exception Exrinction Rule Survival
Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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Certain Except False Mathematics Pure

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