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Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors |
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so that in glory and triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. |
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That’s here, that’s home, that’s us. |
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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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The aggregate of our joy and suffering, |
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thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, |
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every hero and coward,every creator and destroyer of civilization, |
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every king and peasant, |
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every young couple in love, |
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every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, |
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every teacher of morals, |
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every corrupt politician, |
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every “superstar,” |
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every “supreme leader,” |
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every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there |
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on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. |