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“Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty.”
― Deepak Chopra

tags: abstract, balance, beauty, cosmos, deepak-chopra, energy, harmony, life, logic, math, mathematics, mind, mirrror, order, orderliness, peace, quote, quotes, reflaction, reflect, universal, universe, value, values, wisdom

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#2

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
― Nelson Mandela

tags: bravery, courage, fear

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#3

“I used to think that prizes were damaging and divisive, until I got one. And now they seem sort of meaningful and real.”
― Bill Nighy

tags: humor, validation

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#4

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, All Men Are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections

tags: forgiveness, strength, weakness

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#5

“The story of my family. . .changes with the teller.”
― Jennifer Haigh, Faith

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#6

“My mother can't have been magic, or she wouldn't have died", said Riddle”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

tags: attachment, destiny, hope, mother-s-love-for-son

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#7

“The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers.
The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.”
― Peter Drucker

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#8

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

tags: chemistry, relationships

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#9

“The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”
― Maya Angelou, All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes

tags: acceptance, comfort, home, protection, safety, security

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#10

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
― Marcel Proust

tags: discovery, travel

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#11

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
― Carl Sagan

tags: astronomer, science, writer

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#12

“Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

tags: humanity, individuality, love, mercy

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#13

“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

tags: atoms, cosmos, dna, sense-of-wonder, stars

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#14

“We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.”
― Carl Sagan

tags: atheism, science

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#15

“How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?” Instead they say, “No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.” A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the Universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

tags: awe, cosmology, epistemology, god, organized-religion, religion, science

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#16

“I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.”
― Carl Sagan

tags: philosophy, religion, science

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#17

“The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true.”
― Carl Sagan

tags: skepticism, truth

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#18

“we make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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#19

“The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.”
― Carl Sagan

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#20

“People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons. The last way for skeptics to get the attention of bright, curious, intelligent people is to belittle or condescend or to show arrogance toward their beliefs.”
― Carl Sagan

tags: beliefs, skepticism

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#21

“Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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#22

“If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.”
― Carl Sagan

tags: destruction, inspirational, truth

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#23

“In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.”
― Carl Sagan

tags: emptiness, humanity, loneliness, love, space

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#24

“Understanding is a kind of ecstasy”
― Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science

tags: ecstasy, understanding

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#25

“But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

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#26

“The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage. We are the custodians of life's meaning. We long for a Parent to care for us, to forgive us our errors, to save us from our childish mistakes. But knowledge is preferable to ignorance. Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

tags: atheism, god, knowledge, meaning, purpose, religion, truth

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#27

“It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness.”
― Carl Sagan, Contact

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#28

“The visions we offer our children shape the future. ”
― Carl Sagan

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#29

“We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.”
― Carl Sagan

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#30

“A blade of grass is a commonplace on Earth; it would be a miracle on Mars. Our descendants on Mars will know the value of a patch of green. And if a blade of grass is priceless, what is the value of a human being?”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

tags: cosmology, earth, science, space-exploration

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