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I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.

—George Burns

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Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.

—Bill Vaughan

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The cat is a dilettante in fur.

—Théophile Gautier

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Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion.

—Ninon de L'Enclos

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No, there's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream.

—Thomas Moore

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

—Laozi

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There is no other species on the Earth that does science. It is, so far, entirely a human invention, evolved by natural selection in the cerebral cortex for one simple reason: it works. It is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we have, self-correcting, ongoing, applicable to everything. It has two rules. First: there are no sacred truths; all assumptions must be critically examined; arguments from authority are worthless. Second: whatever is inconsistent with the facts must be discarded or revised. We must understand the Cosmos as it is and not confuse how it is with how we wish it to be.

—Carl Sagan in Cosmos

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The neurochemistry of the brain is astonishingly busy, the circuitry of a machine more wonderful than any devised by humans. But there is no evidence that its functioning is due to anything more than the 1014 neural connections that build an elegant architecture of consciousness.

—Carl Sagan in Cosmos

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The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion and politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no place in the endeavor of science.

—Carl Sagan in Cosmos

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A googolplex is precisely as far from infinity as is the number 1... no matter what number you have in mind, infinity is larger still.

—Carl Sagan in Cosmos

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If we long for our planet to be important, there is something we can do about it. We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers.

—Carl Sagan in Cosmos

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The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us — there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries.

—Carl Sagan in Cosmos

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If you're not confused, you're not paying attention.

—Tom Peters

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Bosses: You make your living going to meetings. Hence any meeting that does not bubble and incite enthusiasm is a forever-lost opportunity.

—Tom Peters

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Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.

—Tom Peters

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