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  We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.

  Carl Sagan

  Time, Butterfly, Thinking

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.49, Ballantine Books

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• I don't want to believe. I want to know.

  Carl Sagan

  Inspirational, Life, Religious

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.

  Carl Sagan

  Grateful, Opportunity, Everyday

  "In the Valley of the Shadow". Parade, March 10, 1996.

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• The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.

  Carl Sagan

  Absence, Evidence

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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.

  Carl Sagan

  Reading, Slavery, Path

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• Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

  Carl Sagan

  Life, Art, Motivation

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.26, Ballantine Books

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  Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.

  Carl Sagan

  Comforting, Fantasy, Hard

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.263, Ballantine Books

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• You have to know the past to understand the present.

  Carl Sagan

  Knowledge, Past, Political

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.62, Ballantine Books

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• One of the greatest gifts adults can give - to their offspring and to their society - is to read to children.

  Carl Sagan

  Education, Children, Giving

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• Don't judge everyone else by your own limited experience.

  Carl Sagan

  Judging

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• We are the universe experiencing itself.

  Carl Sagan

  Universe

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• I promise to question everything my leaders tell me. I promise to use my critical faculties. I promise to develop my independence of thought. I promise to educate myself so I can make my own judgments.

  Carl Sagan

  Leader, Independence, Promise

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.546, Ballantine Books

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• If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power.

  Carl Sagan

  Thinking, Hands, Scientific Method

  Carl Sagan (2011). “The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.434, Ballantine Books

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• The fact is that far more crime and child abuse has been committed by zealots in the name of God, Jesus and Mohammed than has ever been committed in the name of Satan. Many people don’t like that statement, but few can argue with it.

  Carl Sagan

  Jesus, Children, Names

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.209, Ballantine Books

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• If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

  Carl Sagan

  Inspirational, Nature, Hipster

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.242, Ballantine Books

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• An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God. I know of no such compelling evidence. Because God can be relegated to remote times and places and to ultimate causes, we would have to know a great deal more about the universe than we do now to be sure that no such God exists. To be certain of the existence of God and to be certain of the nonexistence of God seem to me to be the confident extremes in a subject so riddled with doubt and uncertainty as to inspire very little confidence indeed.

  Carl Sagan

  Atheist, Inspire, Doubt

  "Conversations with Carl Sagan". Book edited by Tom Head, p. 70, 2006.

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• It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

  Carl Sagan

  Death, Witty, Atheist

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.32, Ballantine Books

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• Your god is too small for my universe.

  Carl Sagan

  Universe

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• To live in the hearts of others is to never die in those we leave behind.

  Carl Sagan

  Heart, Behinds, Dies

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• Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.

  Carl Sagan

  Happiness, Strong, Atheist

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• We live on a hunk of rock and metal that circles a humdrum star that is one of 400 billion other stars that make up the Milky Way Galaxy which is one of billions of other galaxies which make up a universe which may be one of a very large number, perhaps an infinite number, of other universes. That is a perspective on human life and our culture that is well worth pondering.

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  Stars, Rocks, Circles

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• For all our conceits about being the center of the universe, we live in a routine planet of a humdrum star stuck away in an obscure corner ... on an unexceptional galaxy which is one of about 100 billion galaxies. ... That is the fundamental fact of the universe we inhabit, and it is very good for us to understand that.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Humility, Political

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• Every star may be a sun to someone.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, May, Sun

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.27, Ballantine Books

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• The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.

  Carl Sagan

  Optimistic, Space, Awful

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• Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence

  Carl Sagan

  Demand, Claims, Evidence

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