"Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective."

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Carl Sagan

#Mistake Quotes #Distance Quotes #Ignorance Quotes

“I love you but you didn't bring me flowers. Your love is hanging on flowers! You are seasonal, conditional, demanding and bargaining. Love is not a bargain. Love is not a business. It cannot be bought and sold. It has no condition. When you put a condition on love, it evaporates.”
“I keep myself amused and others confused”
“Politics was good a hundred years ago. Today, politicians have no ability to solve any problems because they are not students of behavior. They are not students of agriculture, oceanography - they know nothing about the factors that operate the world.”
“Superstition originates among ordinary people in the early and all too zealous instruction they receive in religion: they hear of mysteries, miracles, deeds of the Devil, and consider it very probable that things of this sort could occur in everything anywhere.”
“I am wonderfully content with a God who does not deal with me as my sins deserve.”
“How bless'd the heart that has a friend. A sympathizing ear to lend.”

Source : Thomas Hood (1857). “The poetical works of Thomas Hood”, p.295
“There's always something to occupy the inquiring mind.”
“If you fail to gain absolute self-control, you have failed in the greatest victory of life.”

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