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If we do not speak for Earth, who will? If we are not committed to our own survival, who will be?
Carl Sagan
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Carl Sagan
Age: 62 †
Born: 1934
Born: November 9
Died: 1996
Died: December 20
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The old appeals to racial, sexual and religious chauvinism to rabid nationalist fervor, are beginning not to work.
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In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist's signature.
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I don?t feel rejected by the sky. I?m a part of it- tiny, to be sure, but everything is tiny compared to that overwhelming immensity.
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My long-time view about Christianity is that it represents an amalgam of two seemingly immiscible parts-the religion of Jesus and the religion of Paul. Thomas Jefferson attempted to excise the Pauline parts of the New Testament. There wasn't much left when he was done, but it was an inspiring document.
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Science is not perfect. It's often misused it's only a tool, but it's the best tool we have. Self-correcting , ever changing, applicable to everything: with this tool, we vanquish the impossible.
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Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze.
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It is said that men may not be the dreams of the god, but rather that the gods are the dreams of men.
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