• The gears of poverty, ignorance, hopelessness and low self-esteem interact to create a kind of perpetual failure machine that grinds down dreams from generation to generation. We all bear the cost of keeping it running. Illiteracy is its linchpin.

  Carl Sagan
  American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author 1934-1996
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. hopelessness
2. self-esteem
3. generation
4. illiteracy
5. linchpin
6. keeping

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The gears of poverty, ignorance, hopelessness and low self-esteem interact to create a kind of perpetual failure machine that grinds down dreams from generation to generation. We all bear the cost of keeping it running. Illiteracy is its linchpin. by : Carl Sagan

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