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“Psychologists have long known that people tend to see their own lives through rose-colored glasses: they think they’re less likely than the average person to become the victim of a divorce, layoff, accident, illness, or crime. But change the question from the people’s lives to their society, and they transform from Pollyanna to Eeyore.”
― Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

“If ever there was an avian candidate for psychotherapy, the male blue heron is our nominee.”
― Carl Sagan, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

“A new generation gladly abandons its critical and skeptical faculties. Old slogans and hatreds are dusted off. What was only recently muttered guiltily is now offered as political axiom and agenda.”
― Carl Sagan, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

“We know all about you, Rincewind the magician. You are a man of great cunning and artifice. You laugh in the face of Death. Your affected air of craven cowardice does not fool me.”
It fooled Rincewind.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic