Carl Sagan quote: Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. ...

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of magic.

~ Carl Sagan ~

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