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“She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”
― Carl Sagan, Contact

“In general, human societies are not innovative. They are hierarchical and ritualistic. Suggestions for change are greeted with suspicion: they imply an unpleasant future variation in ritual and hierarchy: an exchange of one set of rituals for another, or perhaps for a less structured society with fewer rituals. And yet there are times when societies must change.”
― Carl Sagan, The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence

“People have ideas. They live in their ideas, do you understand? And those ideas, whatever they happen to be, make all the difference.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, Aurora

“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
― Linda Grayson