F. Sagan
F. Sagan
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We've been told that there exists no other trove of rock-and-roll history that is anywhere near the size of this anywhere else.
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I like men to behave like men - strong and childish
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They laughed at Galileo. They laughed at Newton. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
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Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense
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It was 25 feet high in height, below ground. Part of it was below ground. And there were, I thought, hundreds of thousands of items that were in there. And truly there were millions of items.
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Bill Graham was a pack rat. I think Bill Graham just put everything down in that storage area and was going to keep it forever.
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A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you.
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At seventeen, you tend to go in for unhappy love affairs.
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No woman wants a dress that another has tossed off, but in men they aren't so choosy.
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Are we an exceptionally unlikely accident or is the universe brimming over with intelligence? (It's) a vital question for understanding ourselves and our history,
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That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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The significance of a finding that there are other beings who share this universe with us would be absolutely phenomenal, it would be an epochal event in human history,
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It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the ''fronts'' people assume before one another's eyes, and the ''front'' a writer puts on the face of reality.
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It's tough to do your job because it's so tempting to go down and just listen to audio or go look at video. I could spend all day doing it every day.