Carl Sagan Quotes
Carbonaceous meteorites that fall to the Earth... have several percent to as much as 10 percent of complex organic matter in them.
Carl Sagan
Quotes to Explore
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The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
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Our curses on them that boil the eggs too hard! What use is an egg that is hard to any person on earth?
Lady Gregory
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You aren't your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family... your anything. You're a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.
Wayne Dyer
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If we can deter the Soviet Union, if we can deter North Korea, why on earth can't we deter Iran?
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.
Walter Raleigh
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Now Heaven and Earth are older than the temples, and older than the Scriptures.
Eden Ahbez
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When I watch a romantic comedy, I feel like they're selling something that doesn't exist. Two beautiful, but extremely unpleasant, people are terrible to each other for an hour, accidentally kiss, then decide to like each other during an extremely vague montage. That isn't how people fall in love.
Rainbow Rowell
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Usually, the music inspires the lyrics. The lyrics just sort of fall off like a bunch of crumbs from the melody. That's all I want them to be - crumbs. I don't want to work any kind of fabricated message.
Beck
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In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.
Barney Oliver
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I never considered myself a fall guy. I know what I did. I know why I did it. I'm not ashamed of it.
Oliver North
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I like real people - salt-of-the-earth men.
Tanit Phoenix
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My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.'
Sally Field
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When a woman is fit and healthy, everything else falls into place. We are conditioned to put others first, that 'burnt chop syndrome' we observed in our mothers. It takes discipline to pay attention to our diets, to exercise, to leave time for refreshment of mind, body and spirit.
Quentin Bryce
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As there must be moderation in other things, so there must be moderation in self-criticism. Perpetual contemplation of our own actions produces a morbid consciousness, quite unlike that normal consciousness accompanying right actions spontaneously done; and from a state of unstable equilibrium long maintained by effort, there is apt to be a fall towards stable equilibrium, in which the primitive nature reasserts itself. Retrogression rather than progression may hence result.
Herbert Spencer
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I learned to interpret the ancient pictograph codices and read Nahuatl, the Aztec language.
Gary Jennings
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The problem with digital architecture is that an algorithm can produce endless variations, so an architect has many choices.
Peter Eisenman
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No place is ever the same tomorrow.
N.D. Wilson
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Carbonaceous meteorites that fall to the Earth... have several percent to as much as 10 percent of complex organic matter in them.
Carl Sagan
