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“People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic."

[Cosmos, Part 11: The Persistence of Memory (1980)]”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time ― proof that humans can work magic.”
― Carl Sagan

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
― C.G. Jung

“The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.”
― J. Krishnamurti

“I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven's name, why is it so important to think the same things all together. ”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

“You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.”
― Sam Harris, Free Will

“A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.”
― Sam Harris, Free Will

“Lies are the social equivalent of toxic waste: Everyone is potentially harmed by their spread.”
― Sam Harris, Lying

“No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

“Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I accomplish.”
― Michelangelo Buonarroti

“The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.”
― Michelangelo