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The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.

—Ogden Nash

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I hate the outdoors. To me the outdoors is where the car is.

—Will Durst

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Life isn’t smooth, but it’s the bumps that help us find out who we are. And it’s handling the bumps that gives us courage.

—Sarah Morgan in Once a Ferrara Wife…

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Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.

—Carl Sagan in Cosmos

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War is murder writ large.

—Carl Sagan in Cosmos

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Nobody listens to mathematicians

—Carl Sagan in Cosmos

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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent to the concerns of such puny creatures as we are.

—Carl Sagan in Cosmos

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Matter is composed chiefly of nothing.

—Carl Sagan in Cosmos

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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

—Carl Sagan in Cosmos

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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.

—Carl Sagan in Cosmos

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With insufficient data it is easy to go wrong.

—Carl Sagan in Cosmos

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The fossil record implies trial and error, an inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with an efficient Great Designer.

—Carl Sagan in Cosmos

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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it's forever.

—Carl Sagan in Cosmos

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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

—Carl Sagan in Cosmos

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An atheist has to know a lot more than I know. An atheist is someone who knows there is no god. By some definitions atheism is very stupid.

—Carl Sagan

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