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Carl Sagan Quotes: If we do not speak for Earth, who will? If we are not committed to our own survival, who will be?
         

If we do not speak for Earth, who will? If we are not committed to our own survival, who will be?


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I don't want to believe. I want to know.

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The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.

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