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If you're sending a message to extraterrestrials, what you want to send is what's special about us and our planet - what is unusual. Now, that's not basic chemistry or mineralogy; it's pretty much the cultural stuff and the consequences of evolution. ”
I think every time I can find a story that touches that human nerve, and even sometimes makes you cry, I think that I've found something that I'll like very much. ”
Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs. ”
Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses. ”
Each country has a soul, and France's soul is equality. ”
The curiosity of the human mind is essential if you want citizens who think rather than accept the first nonsense they come to. ”
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind. ”
Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding. ”
In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another. ”
The cosmical importance of this conclusion is profound and the possibilities it opens for the future very remarkable, greater in fact than any suggested before by science in the whole history of the human race. ”