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Carl Sagan Quote - Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.

Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.

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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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