"The usual rejoinder to someone who says 'They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Galileo' is to say 'But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown'."

-- Carl Sagan

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“Never mind what my name is,â€ the man said. â€œNo one can pronounce it anyway. Just call me Sir.”
“It's so hard to be a mother and to also want to practice your art.”
“I've gone through that with my mother and father and here I was in a similar situation. I've wronged her and I've wronged the family. Because when these things happen, it doesn't just happen to you, it happens to the people around you and the family.”
“The reason many people fail is not for lack of vision but for lack of resolve and resolve is born out of counting the cost.”
“I do believe abstraction is and was meant to embody deep emotion. I believe that's its job, in the history of art.”
“It's dangerous to start attributing your fortunes to luck and your misfortunes to fate.”

Source : Nancy Pickard (1989). “Marriage Is Murder”, Pocket
“We are the universe pretending to be individuals.”
“Now, for my younger viewers out there, a book is something we used to have before the internet. Itâ€™s sort of a blog for people with attention spans.”

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