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. Every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful
child, every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there on the
mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. How frequent their misunderstandings, how
fervent their hatreds. 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. All
this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us
from ourselves. Like it or not, for the moment, the Earth is where we make our
stand. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits
than this distant image of our tiny world. 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.
-It's taken from the epilog of Men, Women, and Children movie-
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