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Turns Quotes by Carl Sagan
- We seem, these days, much more willing to recognize the perils before us than we were even a decade ago. The newly recognized dangers threaten…
- Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy. And in the final tolling it often turns out that the facts are more comforting…
- In college, in the early 1950s, I began to learn a little about how science works, the secrets of its great success, how rigorous the…
- Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and…
- If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you. You become a crotchety old person convinced that nonsense is ruling…
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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- It's not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature. — Rowan Atkinson
- When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day. — Chinua Achebe
- For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn? — Jane Austen
- To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment. — Jane Austen
- As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the… — Diane Ackerman
- Don't let your sins turn into bad habits. — Teresa of Avila
- The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a… — Douglas Adams
- Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera. — Joan Baez