Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are …

Carl Sagan
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Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group Groups of people from divergent ethnic and cultural backgrounds working in some sense together [is] surely a humanizing and character building experience. If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth. ✨ Carl Sagan (2011). Cosmos, p.371, Ballantine Books
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