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In my opinion it's worth a significant amount more. It certainly is in excess of $50 million. It's probably in excess of $100 million.


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BOB WEINER Nothing in excess.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Nothing, in excess.
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MATT MULLENWEG In charity there is no excess.
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SIR FRANCIS BACON There is moderation even in excess.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI In charity there is no excess.
FRANCIS BACON, SR. In charity there is no excess.
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CARL SAGAN The near side of a galaxy is tens of thousands of light-years closer to us than the far side; thus w...
CARL SAGAN [When a religious couple wrote to Sagan about fulfilled prophecies, he wrote back in May 1996...
CARL SAGAN I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering ...
CARL SAGAN For a genre that's about looking to the future, science fiction has sure been looking backwards ...
NICK SAGAN It is said that men may not be the dreams of the Gods, but rather that the Gods are the dreams of me...
CARL SAGAN The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us ...
CARL SAGAN Higher levels of technology allow fewer people to do more damage.
NICK SAGAN The world is so exquisite with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ours...
CARL SAGAN Ann Druyan suggests an experiment: Look back again at the pale blue dot of the preceding chapter. Ta...
CARL SAGAN To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter
F. SAGAN We are not without empathetic terror when we open Pascal's 'Pensees' and read, 'I am...
CARL SAGAN We have swept through all of the planets in the solar system, from Mercury to Neptune, in a historic...
CARL SAGAN The visions we offer our children shape the future. It _matters_ what those visions are. Often they ...
CARL SAGAN We tend to hear much more about the splendors returned than the ships that brought them or the shipw...
CARL SAGAN For me, the most ironic token of [the first human moon landing] is the plaque signed by President Ri...
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