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Carl Sagan Quote - Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.

Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.

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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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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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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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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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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.
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The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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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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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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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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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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