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By MauriceHuff GOLD
Chesapeake, Virginia

Come with me into the realms of the universe flying beautifully, powerfully, yet blinded by the light of youth my blindness that metaphoric demise transcends...
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


Poetry
By Anonymous
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

Poetry
By a.daydream.away BRONZE
Moncks Corner, South Carolina
a.daydream.away BRONZE, Moncks Corner, South Carolina
1 article 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
Sometimes before it gets better the darkness gets bigger, the person that you&#039;d take a bullet for is behind the trigger&quot; (fob)

Poetry
By Anonymous
Poetry
By Keebop BRONZE
Easley, South Carolina
Keebop BRONZE, Easley, South Carolina
1 article 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Who can say if I&#039;ve been changed for the better, I do believe I have been changed for the better, and because I knew you, I have been changed for good.&quot; -Wicked the Musical

MysticMusic ELITE, Waterloo, Other
116 articles 0 photos 118 comments

Favorite Quote:
&ldquo;You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.&rdquo; -Mae West<br /> &quot;It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.&quot; - Leonardo Da Vinci

Poetry
By Anonymous
Poetry
By Funboy789 GOLD
Hartland, Wisconsin
Funboy789 GOLD, Hartland, Wisconsin
13 articles 0 photos 0 comments
Poetry
By Violet05 SILVER
Hartland, Wisconsin
Violet05 SILVER, Hartland, Wisconsin
8 articles 0 photos 0 comments