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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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I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students. – Carl Sagan

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Education
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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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There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. – William Shakespeare, Hamlet, 1600

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Hay is more acceptable to an ass than gold. – Latin Proverb

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It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms one would not part. – Marcel Proust, The Fugitive, Remembrance of Things Past, 1925

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Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room. – William Hazlitt, Sketches and Essays, 1839

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Probably the most honest “self-made man” ever was the one we heard say: “I got to the top the hard way — fighting my own laziness and ignorance every step of the way.” – James Thom

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I get asked a lot about getting into politics. I say, Take a look at politics. You tell me what seems appealing about that. – George Clooney

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On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also colors how you react to doing other things. – Harvey Fierstein

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