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By a.daydream.away BRONZE
Moncks Corner, South Carolina

I miss you. I miss your smile and the way you said my name, but most of all, I miss the way you made me feel like maybe I had a chance in this world. I miss the way hear...
a.daydream.away BRONZE, Moncks Corner, South Carolina
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Sometimes before it gets better the darkness gets bigger, the person that you'd take a bullet for is behind the trigger" (fob)


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By Valor GOLD
Hawthorne, California
Valor GOLD, Hawthorne, California
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&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

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By MauriceHuff GOLD
Chesapeake, Virginia
MauriceHuff GOLD, Chesapeake, Virginia
12 articles 2 photos 7 comments

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&quot;The darker the night, the brighter the stars,&quot; - Fyodor Dostoevsky<br /> &quot;When you learn, teach.&quot;- Maya Angelou

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By MauriceHuff GOLD
Chesapeake, Virginia
MauriceHuff GOLD, Chesapeake, Virginia
12 articles 2 photos 7 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;The darker the night, the brighter the stars,&quot; - Fyodor Dostoevsky<br /> &quot;When you learn, teach.&quot;- Maya Angelou

allenp BRONZE, Forney, Texas
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You don&#039;t know what you don&#039;t know.

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By Preethi Ramesh BRONZE
Valley Park, Missouri
Preethi Ramesh BRONZE, Valley Park, Missouri
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By cjwinchester BRONZE
North Providence, Rhode Island
cjwinchester BRONZE, North Providence, Rhode Island
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Favorite Quote:
&quot;Life is a waste of time and time is a waste of life, so let&#039;s all get wasted and have the time of our lives.&quot; ~Kurt Cobain

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By Old-World-Blues DIAMOND
New Freedom, Pennsylvania
Old-World-Blues DIAMOND, New Freedom, Pennsylvania
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BelieveInLoveAtFirstSight PLATINUM, Manchester, Connecticut
21 articles 0 photos 61 comments

Favorite Quote:
The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things. The good things don&#039;t always soften the bad things, but vice versa, the bad things don&#039;t necessarily spoil the good things or make them unimportant. -The Doctor

Orchid7 PLATINUM, Plano, Texas
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Favorite Quote:
if you are brave enough to say goodbye, life will award you with a new hello!