Carl Sagan Quotes
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I feel like my kind of music is a big pot of different spices. It's a soup with all kinds of ingredients in it.
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When all else fails, complicate matters.
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In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy.
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God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide.
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There are thousands of good-looking women out there. Longevity for a heroine doesn't come only with good looks: talent matters.
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I would like to extend to you our deep appreciation and thanks for the position the United States has taken in support of the democratization process that has taken place in Tunisia, in Egypt, and what is attempting to take place in Libya.
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Never mind that the story had turned out to be lies and foolishness-there was always folks stupid enough to say, 'Where there’s smoke there’s fire,' when the saying should have been, 'Where there’s scandalous lies there’s always malicious believers and spreaders-around, regardless of evidence.
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'Well now,' he said, 'was I as good as you were when you were me?'
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Sure my love is all crost Like a bud in the frostAnd there's no use at all in my going to bed,For 't is dhrames and not slape that comes into my head!
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Thou large-brained woman and large-hearted man.
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Philosophically, I don't believe in public funding for private sports.
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'Hound Dog' is a really short record, and most singles didn't last three minutes.
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It's difficult to get to know a Swede. But once you do, you're in.
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As I celebrate life, I can't help but think how young my mom was when she died of a heart attack at 53. My mom didn't get to meet her grandchildren, but I'm determined to watch mine grow up.
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The education I received was a British education, in which British ideas, British culture, British institutions, were automatically assumed to be superior. There was no such thing as African culture.
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When I think about the most exotic, beautiful places, Porto is at the front of my mind. It's incredible, man. You have an idea of what Europe is like as an American, and people talk about Paris, Berlin and Stockholm, which are all great, but it wasn't until I went to Porto that I felt that idea of this exotic, beautiful, timeless place.
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I enjoy learning technical details.
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To say 'A High Wind in Jamaica' is a novel about children who are abducted by pirates is to make it seem like a children's book. But that's completely wrong; its theme is actually how heartless children are.
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Don't deceive me. Never leave me.
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However, ironically, I was baptized Presbyterian, and went to a Quaker school for twelve years.
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Do what you do with love, and success is a natural symptom.
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Sure, I'm an optimistic, joyous person, but I'm also afraid and insecure.
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With insufficient data it is easy to go wrong.
