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They say that even the brightest star won't shine forever. But in fact, the brightest star would live the shortest amount of…
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Just like people, stars can be important without being terribly bright.
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If a little kid ever asks you just why the sky is blue, you look him or her right in the eye…
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I'm tired of ignorance held up as inspiration, where vicious anti-intellectualism is considered a positive trait, and where uninformed opinion is displayed…
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Sixty-five million years ago the dinosaurs had a bad day.
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The difference between the dinosaurs and us is that we have a space program and we can vote.
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It’s dead obvious that creationism isn’t science, or even bad science. It’s nonsense. But I’ve long stated it’s also bad religion, because…
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Other job markets may lay claim to the title, but astronomy is actually the world's oldest profession.
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Some people try to tell me that science will never answer the big questions we have in life. To them I say:…
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A lot of them complain because they say the word denial puts them in the same bin as holocaust deniers. That's too…
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How do you convince someone they're not thinking clearly, when they're not thinking clearly? What we're actually saying is no magic, no…
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If you took every nuclear weapon ever built at the height of the Cold War, lumped them together and blew them up…
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It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite…
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There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some…
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
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The people and the cultures of what is known as Africa are older than the word 'Africa.' According to most records, old…
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I like to say magic is the world's second oldest profession, a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that, throughout the ages, has…
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We will not bend or fail until the blood of every last Jew from the youngest child to the oldest elder is…
— Yasser Arafat
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So far, this is the oldest I've been.
— George Carlin
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Some think that even the ancients who lived long before the present generation, and first framed accounts of the Gods, had a…
— Mary Hunter Austin
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I prayed fifteen years for the conversion of my oldest brother. When he seemed to be getting further and further away from…
— Reuben Archer Torrey
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American society is very like a fish society. . . . Among certain species of fish, the only thing which determines order…
— Margaret Mead
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Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.
— Louis Nizer
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War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.
— Smedley Butler
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