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If you wish to make an apple pie truly from scratch, you must first invent the universe. – 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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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous. – Carl Sagan

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The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins. – Søren Kierkegaard

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There is no possible line of conduct which has at some time and place been condemned, and which has not at some other time and place been enjoined as a duty. – William Lecky

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Each act is virgin, even the repeated ones. – René Char

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The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. – William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

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Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language. – Marshall McLuhan

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In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards. – Bertrand Russell

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Many people and governments share the mistaken belief that science, with new, ingenious devices and techniques, can rescue us from the troubles we face without our having to mend our ways and change our patterns of activity. This is not so. – Henry W. Kendall

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Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one. – Charles de Gaulle, War Memoirs, 1960

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