[Speech]
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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of,
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every human being who ever was, lived out their lives.
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Thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines,
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every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every hero and coward,
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every creator and destroyer of civilization,
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every saint and sinner in the history of our species,
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think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that,
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in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.
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Our posturings, our imagined self-importance,
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the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe,
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are challenged by this point of pale light,
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and underscores our responsibility and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot.
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Pale Blue Dot (Interlude)
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| Story Of The Year |
