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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This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.
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As long as you don't fly openly in the face of society, society doesn't ask any inconvenient questions; and it makes precious short work of the cads who do. There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.
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We are not living in the '80s or '90s. We are living in the age of technology. If you want to be in business, you can't be intimidated by the Internet - you have got to dive in there head first. You can find out how to start your business. Everything you need to learn is right there.
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Given New York City's cultural diversity, it has always attracted creative people.
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Until a character becomes a personality it cannot be believed. Without personality, the character may do funny or interesting things, but unless people are able to identify themselves with the character, its actions will seem unreal. And without personality, a story cannot ring true to the audience.
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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.
