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"A Pale Blue Dot", by Carl Sagan, 1976

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A Pale Blue Dot        – Carl Sagan  From this distant vantage point,          the Earth might not seem of any          particular interest.  But for Us, it's different.  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,...