"Cosmos is a Greek word for the order of the universe. It is, in a way, the opposite of Chaos. It implies the deep interconnectedness of all things. It conveys awe for the intricate and subtle way in which the universe is put together."

-- Carl Sagan

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“Habit hath so vast a prevalence over the human mind that there is scarce anything too strange or too strong to be asserted of it. The story of the miser who, from long accustoming to cheat others, came at last to cheat himself, and with great delight and triumph picked his own pocket of a guinea to convey to his hoard, is not impossible or improbable.”
“Let us suppose, that the Old and New worlds were formerly but one continent, and that, by a violent earthquake, the ancient Atalantis [sic] of Plato was sunk ... The sea would necessarily rush in from all quarters, and form what is now called the Atlantic ocean.”
“For my part, I do not much believe in the predilections of boyhood.”

Source : James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”
“How beautiful life is and how sad! How fleeting, with no past and no future, only a limitless now.”

Source : James Clavell (2009). “Shogun”, p.210, Dell
“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.”
“To me, freedom entitles you to do something, not to not do something.”
“If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.”
“My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.”

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