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A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism. – Carl Sagan

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We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces. – Carl Sagan

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Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out. – Carl Sagan

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He that gives good advice, builds with one hand he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other. – Francis Bacon

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There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good. – H. L. Mencken

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Now and then its good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. – Guillaume Apollinaire

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I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And theres purpose and worth to each and every life. – Ronald Reagan

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