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By Lostfriend SILVER
Boone, Iowa

As time goes on I see my life Innocent as a kid But not treated right No mother in sight Dad in a fright Six months old A baby girl Skinny and weak Throw...
Lostfriend SILVER, Boone, Iowa
5 articles 0 photos 13 comments

Favorite Quote:
Why are you choosing to be angry?


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By Valor GOLD
Hawthorne, California
Valor GOLD, Hawthorne, California
15 articles 0 photos 2 comments

Favorite Quote:
“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That'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 "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

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.

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.

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.

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've ever known.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

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By dinks PLATINUM
Hinsdale, Illinois
dinks PLATINUM, Hinsdale, Illinois
28 articles 0 photos 80 comments

Favorite Quote:
"and kisses are a better faith than freedom"

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By Blynn SILVER
Waco, Texas
Blynn SILVER, Waco, Texas
9 articles 0 photos 97 comments
Alyssa95 PLATINUM, Lodi, Wisconsin
40 articles 21 photos 7 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

12gage PLATINUM, Genesee,
30 articles 0 photos 17 comments

Favorite Quote:
"GODS OF WAR I CALL YOU, MY SWORD
IS BY MY SIDE.
I SEEK A LIFE OF HONR, FREE FROM
ALL FALSE PRIDE.
I WILL CRACK THE WHIP WITH A BOLD
MIGHTY HAIL.
COVER ME WITH DEATH IF I SHOULD
EVER FAIL.
"GLORY, MAJESTY, UNITY
HAIL, HAIL, HAIL. "

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By White-Rabbit SILVER
Thief River Falls, Minnesota
White-Rabbit SILVER, Thief River Falls, Minnesota
7 articles 1 photo 4 comments

Favorite Quote:
"I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then." Lewis Carroll

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By Lyinheart SILVER
Harrisonburg, Virginia
Lyinheart SILVER, Harrisonburg, Virginia
7 articles 0 photos 9 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Failing isn't just for failures, it's for everybody. Failures just have more experience." - Dan Smith

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By lizbethacosta BRONZE
Fontana, California
lizbethacosta BRONZE, Fontana, California
3 articles 0 photos 2 comments

Favorite Quote:
"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed." -Earnest Hemmingway