The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it ✨ …

Carl Sagan
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it ✨ Carl Sagan (2012). Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence, p.74, Ballantine Books
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