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.
CARL SAGAN
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.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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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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