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Ernest Hemingway Novelist
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"It is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers."

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Esther Williams Actress
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"I never walked the streets of New York hoping to be a musical comedy star. For one thing, they would have thought I was too tall, because l was five feet eight and a half, and they were all little bitty things running around in the studio at that time."

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Eva Green Actress
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"I don't want to be a Hollywood star. I just want to do my job and enjoy it. My aim is to find my true identity and to remain true to myself."

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Carl Sagan Astronomer, Astrophysicist
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"I set before you two ways: You can use your technology to destroy yourselves or to carry you to the planets and the stars. It's up to you."

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Carl Sagan Astronomer, Astrophysicist
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"When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion."

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Carl Sagan Astronomer, Astrophysicist
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"It will not be we who reach Alpha Centauri, and the other nearby stars. It will be a species very like us - but with more of our strengths and fewer of our weaknesses."

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Carl Sagan Astronomer, Astrophysicist
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"All of the rocky and metallic material we stand on, the iron in our blood, the calcium in our teeth, the carbon in our genes were produced billions of years ago in the interior of a red giant star. We are made of star stuff."

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Carl Sagan Astronomer, Astrophysicist
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"We've begun at last to wonder about our origins, star stuff contemplating the stars, organized collections of ten billion billion billion atoms contemplating the evolution of matter, tracing that long path by which it arrived at consciousness here on the planet Earth and perhaps throughout the cosmos. Our obligation to survive and flourish is owed not just to ourselves but also to that cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring."

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Daniel Kahneman Psychologist, Nobel Laureate
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"We were required to predict a soldier's performance in officer training and in combat, but we did so by evaluating his behavior over one hour in an artificial situation. This was a perfect instance of a general rule that I call WYSIATI, "What you see is all there is." We had made up a story from the little we knew but had no way to allow for what we did not know about the individual's future, which was almost everything that would actually matter. When you know as little as we did, you should not make extreme predictions like "He will be a star.""

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Dante Alighieri Poet, Philosopher
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"But already my desire and my will were being turned like a wheel, all at one speed, by the Love which moves the sun and the other stars"

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Dante Alighieri Poet, Philosopher
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"e quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle" ("and thence we came forth to see again the stars")"

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Benjamin Franklin Inventor, Statesman, Author
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"The discovery of a wine is of greater moment than the discovery of a constellation. The universe is too full of stars."

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Aeschylus Playwright
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"I pray the gods some respite from the weary task of this long year's watch that lying on the Atreidae's roof on bended arm, dog- like, I have kept, marking the conclave of all night's stars, those potentates blazing in the heavens that bring winter and summer to mortal men, the constellations, when they wane, when they rise."

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"Hwang Jung-eun is one of the brightest stars of the new South Korean generation - she's Han Kang's favourite, and the novel we're publishing scooped the prestigious Bookseller's Award, for critically-acclaimed fiction that also has a wide popular appeal. She stands out for her focus on social minorities - her protagonists are slum inhabitants, trans women, orphans - and for the way she melds this hard-edged social critique with obliquely fantastical elements and offbeat dialogue."

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Debra Wilson Actress, Comedian
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"Watched Star Wars in 77 and that's when I got into watching films. I was just blown away by it."

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