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The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
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The Beauty Of A Living Thing Is

Carl Sagan
The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
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It is not expensive to be beautiful. it takes only a little effort to be presentable and beautiful. but it takes some effort. and unfortunately people think of beauty as luxury, beauty as frivolity, ... or extravagance. beauty is a discipline, beauty is art, is harmony, in the ideological sense and in the theological sense, beauty is god and love made real. and the ultimate reach in this world is beauty.
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