The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
CARL SAGANThe price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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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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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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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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I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.
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One of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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