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“However, every advance in our knowledge of the cosmos has revealed that we live on a cosmic speck of dust, orbiting a mediocre star in the far suburbs of a common sort of galaxy, among a hundred billion galaxies in the universe. The news of our cosmic unimportance triggers impressive defense mechanisms in the human psyche.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution

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“Everything that will happen will happen...and if you don't get to see it.. It will be because we didn't live long enough”
― José Saramago, Death with Interruptions

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“It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.”
― Walter Benjamin

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“The nicest veterans...the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

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“She was pretty, possibly not the prettiest woman in the audience, but pretty in a very particular, indefinable way that couldn't be put into words, like a line of poetry whose ultimate meaning, if such a thing exists in a line of poetry, continually escapes the translator.”
― José Saramago, Death with Interruptions

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