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    Carl Sagan
    “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
    ― Carl Sagan
    tags: astronomer, science, writer
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    Carl Sagan
    “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”
    ― Carl Sagan
    tags: evidence, faith, science, skepticism
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    Carl Sagan
    “Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.”
    ― Carl Sagan
    tags: imagination
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    Carl Sagan
    “Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.”
    ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
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    Carl Sagan
    “We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.”
    ― Carl Sagan
    tags: atheism, science
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    Carl Sagan
    “The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.”
    ― Carl Sagan
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    Carl Sagan
    “The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.”
    ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
    tags: atoms, beauty, cosmos, philosophy, science, universe
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    Carl Sagan
    “The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.”
    ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
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    Carl Sagan
    “If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.”
    ― Carl Sagan
    tags: destruction, inspirational, truth
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    Carl Sagan
    “The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.”
    ― Carl Sagan
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    Carl Sagan
    “You have to know the past to understand the present.”
    ― Carl Sagan
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    C.S. Lewis
    “There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
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    C.S. Lewis
    “It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, old-books, reading
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    C.S. Lewis
    “The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career. ”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: family
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: character-development, education, ethics
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    C.S. Lewis
    “God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
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    C.S. Lewis
    “A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
    tags: aspiration, pride, self-improvement
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    C.S. Lewis
    “If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: truth
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    C.S. Lewis
    “The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: god, inspirational, love
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    C.S. Lewis
    “I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: forgiveness
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
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    C.S. Lewis
    “If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
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    C.S. Lewis
    “As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on thing and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down you cannot see something that is above you.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
    tags: christian-values, humility, pride
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    C.S. Lewis
    “If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: change, life-lessons, love, pain
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    C.S. Lewis
    “When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: blessings
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality. ”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
    tags: courage
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    C.S. Lewis
    “For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
    tags: free-will, god, john, judas
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Progress means getting nearer to the place you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turn, then to go forward does not get you any nearer.
    If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: progress
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    C.S. Lewis
    “The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
    tags: action, deeds, feeling, heart
    520 likes



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