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Destroyed Quote by Carl Sagan

“We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock.” quote by Carl Sagan — Download Open image

“We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock.”

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Don't judge everyone else by your own limited experience.

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To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I will say…

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Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.

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Evil cannot be "treated" -- nor should it be. Evil has to [be] confronted and destroyed and it matters not why the evil is…

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They're criminals, they brutalized Afghanistan, they killed our people, they destroyed our land.

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Wasn't Saddam destroyed? Wasn't Gaddafi liquidated? Didn't Milosevic go to the Hague? All true. But Stalin survived. Kim Jong-un isn't doing too badly, either…

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We all carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted, and cannot be destroyed.

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Wars--and what is war except crime on a mass scale?--destroy rather than produce. The vandal that destroys a window causes not only the owner to bear the costs of replacing it, but costs those whom he planned on using that money to buy from. The same goes for wars. The warlords--of war and peace--destroyed so much, not only what existed,…

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Like Samson, I am ready to pull down the white man's temple, knowing full well that I will be destroyed by the falling rubble.

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Men will never rest till they've spoiled the earth and destroyed the animals.

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