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"It is better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion however satisfying and reassuring"

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MORE QUOTES BY Carl Sagan

“I don't want to believe I want to know”

Carl Sagan

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“We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.”

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