In the visible world, the Milky Way is a tiny fragment; within this fragment, the solar system is an infinitesimal speck, and of this speck our planet is a microscopic dot. On this dot, tiny lumps of impure carbon and water, of complicated structure, with somewhat unusual physical and chemical properties, crawl about for a few years, until they are dissolved again into the elements of which they are compounded. Bertrand Russell
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In the visible world, the Milky Way is a tiny fragment; within this fragment, the solar system is an infinitesimal speck, and of this speck our planet is a microscopic dot. On this dot, tiny lumps of impure carbon and water, of complicated structure, with somewhat unusual physical and chemical properties, crawl about for a few years, until they are dissolved again into the elements of which they are compounded. The earth is so small compared to all the stars in the sky and we cannot even see it as a whole. We take for granted that we possess everything we need to sustain ourselves and that we can take care of ourselves without any problems or hindrances.

However, that may not always be the case. Our world is full of people who do not want us to thrive and succeed as well as those who probably wish we would all die off. So much effort has been put into trying to make things better for us but now we can only hang on by what seems like it will be a thread until we finally fall off the edge of the world.

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