“The price we pay for the anticipation of our future is anxie…”

“The price we pay for the anticipation of our future is anxiety about it. Foretelling disaster is probably not much fun; Pollyanna was much happier than Cassandra. But the Cassandric components of our nature are necessary for survival.”

— Carl Sagan

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Title: Wikiquote: Carl Sagan
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Chapter 3, “The Brain and the Chariot” (p. 74)

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Sagan, Carl. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Carl Sagan. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan

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