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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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Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
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Avoid Cause Human Ignorance Misery Ourselves Particular Stupidity
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
Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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Ecstasy Kind One Liner Understand
Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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Inspirational Life Magnificent Opportunity Positive Provide Thankful
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
Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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Disturb Glory Stupidity
Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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Book Break Human Magic Proof Time Work
I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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Atheist Believe Knowledge Proof Science Want
For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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Creature Love Vast
Arguments from authority carry little weight, authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.
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Argument Authority Expert Future Mistake Past Weight
We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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Courage Depth Significance World
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
Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course.
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Attempt Course Ourselves Safe Science Success Understand World
Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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Blind Citizen Distant Greatness Human Invention People Togetherness Writing
Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
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Depth Different Giving Involvement Love Number Perhaps Relationship
We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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Butterfly Forever Human Nature Thinking

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