Carl Sagan Quotes
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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My mother, R. Rajalakshmi, taught at Annamalai University in Chidambaram, and during the day, I was well cared for by aunts and grandparents in the usual way of an extended Indian family.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough?
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I am surrounded by great people.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.
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You don't have to feel confident to act confident. In fact, it's the most important acting job you can learn.
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The collective judgment of the electorate must be respected.
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I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.
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In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
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'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' is one of the greatest films of all time.
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I've had so many injuries.
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I know about various fictional and folkloric vampire mythoses the way other people know about the personal life of celebrities.
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I think the most important thing for a listener is to realize that he, too, should not listen to music in a passive way; that if you sit in a concert hall and expect to be moved or taken off your seat by the music, it will not happen.
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When we have a favorite writer, it's always the places where they grew up, lived, worked, and that they recreated on the page that we most want to visit and commune with. Faulkner's Mississippi, Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles, etc. The mind of the reader longs to be somewhere, not just anywhere, and certainly not nowhere.
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
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Kansas is great - and great for America, when, more and more, we honor every human life everywhere.
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Both the velodrome and the Commonwealth swimming pool are open to the public and are frequently used by local schools and the local community. Over the last six years young people have been inspired to take up swimming and cycling more seriously; some of them are now coming through as Olympic champions or hopefuls.
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I have been shown in darkness, light [and] have learned that, even in prison, one can be free.
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Something like The Haunting is not worth the slightest consideration from me.
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Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which is spread unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls.
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If you do not know how to be happy now… you will never ever be happy even with all the goals you achieve.
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Astronomically, the U. S. S. R. and the United States are the same place.
