Carl Sagan Quotes
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I live in Europe and care about democracy and sovereignty of nation states there.
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The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all knowledge. You might call it the Alexandrian fantasy, after the great library founded by Ptolemy I in 286 BC.
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I wear jewellery that I never take off. I have a ring and two necklaces. I always have them on and get scared when I have to take them off for photo shoots. The ring is my mum's mum's mum's, and she gave it to me for my 18th birthday. The necklace is the same one that my sister has. She's called Hannah, and the name is the chain.
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An act of unilateral nuclear disarmament by a European power would have a much more lasting impact than all the sanctions under consideration. Sanctions, as we know from the example of Iraq, always affect the least powerful citizens the most.
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I'm gonna live my life the correct way, and I'm gonna be a champion the kids look up to and hopefully aspire to be like.
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I buy companies for strategic reasons and operate them.
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I have been blessed with roles that allow me to express something very personal at a specific time in my life. I seek them out; acting is my therapy.
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Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks.
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My mother and my sister are big Jon Snow fans.
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One of my favourite activities is eating.
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Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
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I think what I bring to the table is a lot of heart, a lot of energy, and somebody that works hard. Somebody who hates to lose.
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Life provides material for its agitation which makes its general views comprehensible to the masses.
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If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.
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I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.
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Working across the aisle, I helped pass laws exposing business dealings in Iran, cracking down on Iranian human rights abusers, and applying crippling sanctions to Iran's oil and gas industries.
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You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.
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All of us at reddit work here because we think that reddit is a community like none other. We think it can be a powerful force to change the world for the better.
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Keep in mind that it is very important to stay moving and to get exercise - positive feelings about our appearance develop once we start taking control of our health.
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To Than Shwe, a kingdom in return for the eternal soul is just the right egregious trade-off. Than Shwe is a general who carries the light of unbounded ambition.
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Mrs. Colquhoun was being amiable because she thought Catherine was down and out, and Mrs. Colquhoun was what she was, hard, severe, critical, grudging of happiness, kind to failure so long as it remained failure, simply because there wasn’t a soul in the whole world who really loved her. A devoted husband would have done much to bring out her original goodness; a very devoted husband would have done everything.
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Like sensible people throughout history, the average Phoenician wanted as little to do with his government as possible.
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It's very unusual for us to have this many incidents in a short period of time.
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Matter is composed chiefly of nothing.
