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When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.
Carl Sagan
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Carl Sagan
Age: 62 †
Born: 1934
Born: November 9
Died: 1996
Died: December 20
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For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness.
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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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Frederick Douglas taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom, but reading is still the path.
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The Bill of Rights decoupled religion from the state, in part because so many religions were steeped in an absolutist frame of mind - each convinced that it alone had a monopoly on the truth and therefore eager for the state to impose this truth on others.
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One trend that bothers me is the glorification of stupidity, that the media is reassuring people it's alright not to know anything. That to me is far more dangerous than a little pornography on the Internet.
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With insufficient data it is easy to go wrong.
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