If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my…

Carl Sagan
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If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read. ✨ Carl Sagan (2011). Cosmos, p.306, Ballantine Books
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If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read. ✨ Carl Sagan (2011). Cosmos, p.306, Ballantine Books

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