"In the vastness of the Cosmos there must be other civilizations far older and more advanced than ours."

-- Carl Sagan

#Civilization Quotes #Cosmos Quotes #Vastness Quotes

“In the beginning I tried to accommodate everything there that was somewhere between art and garbage and that somehow seemed important to me and a pity to throw away. After a while, some sheets in the Atlas acquired another value, after all - that is, it seemed to me that they could stand on their own terms, not only under the protection of the Atlas.”
“I was a writer for 'New York' magazine. I had been to business school, but what did I know? Still, everybody from the receptionists on up to the editor would ask me what they should do with their money.”
“I love the idea of spies in love. How would it work between two people who were so programmed to lie and be suspicious, who have a whole life based on pretence?”
“If we desire to live securely, comfortably, and quietly, that by all honest means we should endeavor to purchase the good will of all men, and provoke no man's enmity needlessly; since any man's love may be useful, and every man's hatred is dangerous.”

Source : Isaac Barrow (1839). “The Sermons and Expository Treatises of Isaac Barrow: With a Life of the Author”, p.271
“From little pain you flinch away but great pain must be embraced.”

Source : Willa Gibbs (1953). “Seed of Mischief”
“Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.”
“So the end may be a long time coming, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have a way of sneaking up on you.”
“[My parents] met in university back in the '70s. And I didn't grow up with my father. He - they separated before I was born.”

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