Carl Sagan Quotes
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
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I have always loved and appreciated the Giants organization, my Giants teammates, and the fans of San Francisco.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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Detroit is saying that the hydrogen vehicle is the vehicle of the future. But it's 15 years from now.
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
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I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.
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There is no point in pointing fingers because there are three fingers pointing back at you.
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I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby.
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I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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I just went to an acting agency one day and just said, 'I would like to act. Would you take me?' And they took me.
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My 'Big Bang Theory' costar Johnny Galecki went off the grid. He bought a huge ranch and goes there every weekend. He keeps telling me to do the same thing, but I don't know if I'm that committed. The Valley is as far off the grid as I'm going to go.
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A man who gives himself to be a possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life, having bartered his soul to a brute-master. He is not of them. He may stand against them, persuade himself of a mission, batter and twist them into something which they, of their own accord, would not have been.
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I see no conflict whatsoever between Christianity and good business practices. People say you can't mix business with religion. I say there's no other way.
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Babies choose to lackadaisically notice the quirkiest of details - unlike us grown ups, who choose instead to focus on what we believe is most essential to us. As a result, babies have a greater expanded consciousness than us grown-ups!
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New markets could be created by rural potentials, which could lead to rise in the employment.
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It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?
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If someone realises the piece they are wearing is inspired by me then it only broadens my audience.
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It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.
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Every mode of technology is a reflex of our most intimate psychological experience. (p. 171)
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I am walking like a bewitched corpse, with the certainty of being eaten by the infinite, of being annulled by the only existing Absurd.
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My experience growing up in a rough and tumble town in the blue-collar world of Western Pennsylvania in the 1970s was that anything a man did was always more important than anything a woman did.
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
