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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
Carl SaganCarl Sagan 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.
Carl SaganCarl Sagan We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
Carl SaganCarl Sagan Every star may be a sun to someone.
Carl SaganCarl Sagan Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
Carl SaganCarl Sagan Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
Carl SaganCarl Sagan We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
Carl SaganCarl Sagan Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
Carl SaganCarl Sagan The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
Carl SaganCarl Sagan The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
Carl SaganCarl Sagan Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
Carl SaganCarl Sagan The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
Carl SaganCarl Sagan We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
Carl SaganCarl Sagan We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
Carl SaganCarl Sagan Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Carl SaganCarl Sagan There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
Carl SaganCarl Sagan
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Life is a journey through the sea between the Islands of birth and success.
AurthurAurthur There are times when god speaks. You might not hear the words, but you’ll see. You’ll see.
Sonya TeclaiSonya Teclai For in the wild I feel the safest where the thorns of the invisible hand can not prick me.
Raha ArazRaha Araz I tried to write you something uplifting but I could only see grey.
Carmen AmadosCarmen Amados I want to spend the rest of my coffee’s with you.
Jessica PickardJessica Pickard Never again will I give, give myself to those who refuse to see my fire.
TMCTMC You attract the energy you give out to the world.
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Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.
Elie WieselElie Wiesel Then I will speak upon the ashes.
Sojourner TruthSojourner Truth Hidden in the ashes, of a fallen building lays a child’s family photo, with whom he could never unite in life.
Heba NazarHeba Nazar I will rise like a phoenix from the ashes of the bridges I burned.
Z. ElliottZ. Elliott Rising from the ashes on wings of tomorrow. Her strength carries her into the dawn of new beginnings.
Laura Natoli-KearneyLaura Natoli-Kearney Everything I’ve done seems to burn into ashes.
Sayed AbbasSayed Abbas Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
Carl SaganCarl Sagan They sent forth men to battle, But no such men return; And home, to claim their welcome, Come ashes in an urn.
AeschylusAeschylus