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The Universe
We, who embody the local eyes and ears
and thoughts and feelings of the cosmos,
we have begun, at last, to wonder at our
origins.
Starstuff contemplating the stars.
Organized collections of ten
billion billion billion atoms,
contemplating the evolution of matter,
tracing that long path by which it
arrived at consciousness here on
the planet Earth and perhaps throughout
the cosmos.
Carl Sagan, in Cosmos
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