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Carl Sagan Quote - Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.

Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.

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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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Assure Delusion Grasp Persistence Satisfaction Universe
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
CARL SAGAN

Body Knowledge Science Thinking
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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Assemble Book Leaf Print Tree
Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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Book Permit Time Voyage Wisdom
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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Dependent Exquisite Live Science Society Technology
Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.
CARL SAGAN

Ancestor Door Family Favourite Live Night Program Sky Television
The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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Couple Each Other Enptiness Finding Relationship Valentine
The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
CARL SAGAN

Brain Feeling Goodness Joy Muscle Understand
What an astonishing thing a book is.
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Astonish Book One Liner
Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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Inspirational Life Magnificent Opportunity Positive Provide Thankful
Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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Explanation Love Peverse Science Want World
Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
CARL SAGAN

Atheist Emotion Fools Liable Ourselves Strong
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.
CARL SAGAN

Book Content Finish Library Lifetime Percent Reading Time Trick Week
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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Ambition Harmony Human Perfection Requirement Universe
Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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Deception Demonstrate Emotion Human
We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock.
CARL SAGAN

Awesome Cling Destroy Humanity Live Rock Sun Universe Vast World

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