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#37831voted by our readers
By Nomi Hniang BRONZE
Lewisville, Texas

People think only for food When they hear it- But not for me I feel hungry every time I breathe No one will hear My beating heart But I do hear My blood shake. I am hungry...
Nomi Hniang BRONZE, Lewisville, Texas
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#37832 Poetry
By scarletttmia BRONZE
Scunthorpe, Other
scarletttmia BRONZE, Scunthorpe, Other
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Favorite Quote:
Destruction is a form of creation.

caitlinjade22 BRONZE, Crewe, Virginia
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#37834 Poetry
kaitlynwilliamson23 BRONZE, Wentzville, Missouri
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#37835 Poetry
By Valor GOLD
Hawthorne, California
Valor GOLD, Hawthorne, California
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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

#37836 Poetry
jjwriter6 BRONZE, Festus, Missouri
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Favorite Quote:
"FOR NARNIA!!!"

#37837 Poetry
By Alej_ SILVER
Bradenton, Florida
Alej_ SILVER, Bradenton, Florida
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#37838 Poetry
By Anonymous
#37839 Poetry
By jennyneal BRONZE
Colorado Springs, Colorado
jennyneal BRONZE, Colorado Springs, Colorado
3 articles 2 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.&quot;

#37840 Poetry
Tarah18 PLATINUM, Brockton, Massachusetts
30 articles 3 photos 11 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;If a man can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl he simply isn&#039;t giving the kiss the attention it deserves.&quot;<br /> ~Albert Einstein