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Quote by Carl Sagan
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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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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Death
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Carl Sagan
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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous. – Carl Sagan

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good
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Carl Sagan
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The good things of prosperity are to be wished but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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good

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world. – Thomas Jefferson

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good

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good. – Benjamin Franklin

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good

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. – Marcus Aurelius

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good

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It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. – Edmund Burke, Second Speech on Conciliation, 1775

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Civil Disobedience

Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians. – David Brinkley

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History

To be honest, Ive always had far too much freedom. I had a job when I was 10. I started living on my own when I was 17 or 18. Ive earned my own money Ive traveled the world. What would I rebel against? – Emma Watson

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Freedom

We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be apprehended; in a single being that includes all, above all in the one which is itself the all. – Giordano Bruno

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Certainty