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  • #1
    Carl Sagan
    “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
    Carl Sagan, Cosmos

  • #2
    Carl Sagan
    “The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”
    Carl Sagan, Cosmos

  • #3
    Carl Sagan
    “What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic."

    [Cosmos, Part 11: The Persistence of Memory (1980)]”
    Carl Sagan, Cosmos

  • #4
    Carl Sagan
    “We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.”
    Carl Sagan, Cosmos

  • #5
    Carl Sagan
    “The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.”
    Carl Sagan, Cosmos

  • #6
    Carl Sagan
    “The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us -- there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries.”
    Carl Sagan, Cosmos

  • #7
    Carl Sagan
    “If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.”
    Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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    Anya Seton
    “A woman with opinions had better develop a thick skin and a loud voice.”
    Anya Seton, The Winthrop Woman

  • #10
    Matthew Edward Hall
    “Blacks aren't bigger, it's documented in their tribal photos. (The quote that end's anti-Black racism)”
    Matthew Edward Hall, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

  • #11
    “To overcome the need to be productive, as a lot of productivity is destructive.”
    San Mateo, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

  • #12
    Sarah J. Maas
    “Never again.
    Never again would she be weak.
    Never again would she be at someone’s mercy.
    Never again would she fail.
    Never again, never again, never again.”
    Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames



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