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Carl Sagan

"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If weâ€™ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. Weâ€™re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. Itâ€™s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that weâ€™ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back."

Source : Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.314, Ballantine Books

Carl Sagan

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“My heavenly citizenship makes the whole world a foreign mission field.”
“If something is in my mind, I can easily forget everything else and maybe forget about other people. I'm trying to change it's not that I'm that bad. I want people to want to work with me.”
“It means that we must abandon the method of civil disobedience, non-cooperation and satyagraha. When there was no way left for constitutional methods for achieving economic and social objectives, there was a great deal of justification for unconstitutional methods. But where constitutional methods are open, there can be no justification for these unconstitutional methods. These methods are nothing but the Grammar of Anarchy and the sooner they are abandoned, the better for us.”

Source : Commencement address at the Romanian Military Academy August 14, 1968. "The Prague Spring and the Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia, 1968: Forty Years Later". Book by M. Mark Stolarik, 2010.
“The artist in his teens who is happy is a charlatan. Life comes bursting in all around lis too suddenly, too crudely, too cruelly, for happiness.”
“I believe that, by and large, people are good and everybody you meet is more likely to surprise you in a positive way than in a negative way.”
“Why do critics make such an outcry against tragicomedies? is not life one?”
“England always seems to me like a man swimming with his clothes on his head.”
“There are many wrong reasons to want to be an entrepreneur. I think there's only one good reason: to change the world.”

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