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Our posturings, 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.
Carl Sagan
Great
Dark
Light
Lonely
Universe
Our
Our Planet
Some
Cosmic
Point
Delusion
Self-Importance
Privileged
Planet
Challenged
Pale
Speck
Imagined
Position
We live on this speck called Earth - think about what you might do, today or tomorrow - and make the most of it.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Today
You
Tomorrow
Live
Think
Earth
About
Most
Make
Might
Speck
The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.
Clarence Darrow
Best
Side
Our
Kindly
Drifting
Dirt
Toward
Fellow
Passengers
Clinging
Friends
Same
Common
Doom
While
Who
Helpful
Speck
Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
George Eliot
World
Vision
Will
Our
Out
See
Only
Troublesome
Self
Know
Glory
Leave
Very
Close
Blot
Tiny
Which
Speck
Margin
Just as it takes time for a speck of fish spawn to develop into a fully grown fish, so, too, we need time for everything that develops and crystallizes in the world of ideas. Architecture demands more of this time than other creative work.
Alvar Aalto
Work
Time
Creative
Architecture
World
Too
Other
Everything
More
Develop
Takes
Develops
Demands
Ideas
Fish
Than
Just
Spawn
Fully
Creative Work
Grown
Speck
Need
I'd much rather be in the expanse of the wilderness because it feels like part of my world. It's a unique perspective. You're this tiny speck in a huge environment, and it's nice to be reminded of that.
Sarah McLachlan
You
World
Perspective
Nice
Wilderness
Rather
Part
Environment
Reminded
Feels
Like
Because
Huge
Expanse
Tiny
Much
Unique
Speck
How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above?
Brian Greene
Great
Universe
Above
Physically
Identical
How
Expanse
Heavens
View
Speck
I used to dislike it, but now I like it more and more, feeling small. I like feeling like a little speck.
Brie Larson
Feeling
More
Small
More And More
Like
Little
Dislike
Used
Now
Speck
Clinton and Obama practice this politics known quaintly as the Richard Speck strategy: if you cannot take on everyone in the room at once, take them out of the room one at a time.
Grover Norquist
Politics
Time
You
Practice
Strategy
Everyone
Once
Out
Obama
Take
Known
Clinton
Cannot
Room
Them
Richard
Speck
We haven't yet found a speck of evidence for biology on another world, so we have no objective way to judge whether life is a onetime fluke or a near-inevitable phenomenon.
Seth Shostak
Life
Judge
World
Life Is A
Biology
Fluke
Way
Evidence
Objective
Another
Whether
Found
Speck
Phenomenon
Scripture suggests that the elements in space were created for the benefit of earth, while evolution suggests that earth is an insignificant speck in vast space.
Walter Lang
Space
Benefit
Earth
Evolution
Insignificant
Vast
Were
While
Scripture
Created
Elements
Speck
I have a really beautiful mother. She is close to 60, and to this day doesn't wear a speck of make up or dye her hair, and everyone who meets her is completely dazzled by her. She seriously glows.
Julianne Nicholson
Beautiful
Day
Mother
Seriously
Hair
Everyone
Meets
Wear
She
Make
Make Up
Up
Close
Dye
Really
Who
Her
Speck