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#449741voted by our readers
By D,angelo Lewis BRONZE
Framingham, Massachusetts

a word that most people know it’s something that some strives for the ability to fly on your own to be able to roam the world to go on a journey through the galaxy making i...
D,angelo Lewis BRONZE, Framingham, Massachusetts
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#449742 Poetry
By Valor GOLD
Hawthorne, California
Valor GOLD, Hawthorne, California
15 articles 0 photos 2 comments

Favorite Quote:
&ldquo;Look again at that dot. That&#039;s here. That&#039;s home. That&#039;s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every &quot;superstar,&quot; every &quot;supreme leader,&quot; every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.<br /> <br /> The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.<br /> <br /> Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.<br /> <br /> The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.<br /> <br /> It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we&#039;ve ever known.&rdquo; <br /> ― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

#449743 Poetry
valentinalopez2003 SILVER, Fort White, Florida
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#449745 Poetry
By Anonymous
#449746 Poetry
By ohiwish BRONZE
Sudbury, Massachusetts
ohiwish BRONZE, Sudbury, Massachusetts
1 article 0 photos 1 comment
#449747 Poetry
By Anonymous
#449748 Poetry
Thaxonyn BRONZE, Orangevill, Ohio
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#449749 Poetry
By Yummichi GOLD
Houston, Texas
Yummichi GOLD, Houston, Texas
10 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;When we make our own misery we sometimes cling to it even when we want so bad to change, because misery is something we know. The misery is comfortable.&quot; - Dean Koontz

#449750 Poetry
By RunosSister BRONZE
Luling, Louisiana
RunosSister BRONZE, Luling, Louisiana
4 articles 0 photos 1 comment

Favorite Quote:
If the dark is where the evil lives, and white the good, what lives in the shade of grey?