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Carl Sagan Quote - You have to know the past to understand the present.

You have to know the past to understand the present.

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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 price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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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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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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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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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
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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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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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