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If our extinction proceeds slowly enough to allow a moment of horrified realization, the doers of the deed will likely be quite taken aback on realizing that they have actually destroyed the world. Therefore I suggest that if the Earth is destroyed, it will probably be by mistake.

~Eliezer Yudkowsky

Topics: Actually Allow Deed Destroyed Doers Earth Enough Extinction Horrified Likely Mistake Moment Our Proceeds Quite Realization Realizing Slowly Suggest Taken Therefore Will World

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Every time a meteor comes close to the earth, we all think about the end of the world - but our internal soundtrack doesn't turn off. We're also thinking about pizza or passing a slow tractor or making a turn, and for a magical instant, our lives seem to be in conversation with the stars.

~Elif Batuman

Topics: About Also Close Conversation Earth End End Of The World Every Every Time Instant Internal Lives Magical Making Meteor Off Our Our Lives Passing Pizza Seem Slow Soundtrack Stars Think Thinking Time Tractor Turn World

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You are literally never alone. While there are roughly 6.7 billion people on Earth, you may not feel that many of them at all care very much about your existence. But within your colon alone are living at least 1012 billion organisms, or roughly a thousand times the number of people on the planet. Stop your metabolic processes, and you stop theirs.

~Eliot Schrefer

Topics: About Alone Billion Care Colon Earth Existence Feel Least Literally Living Many May Much Never Number Organisms People Planet Processes Roughly Stop Them Thousand Thousand Times Times Very While Within You Your

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It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.

~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Topics: Begin Day Each Each Day Earth Fullest Had Know Knowing Limited Limited Time Live Only Our Our Time Then Time Truly Understand Up Way Will

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It is inconceivable for our unconscious to imagine an actual ending of our own life here on Earth, and if this life of ours has to end, the ending is always attributed to a malicious intervention from the outside by someone else.

~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Topics: Actual Always Attributed Earth Else End Ending Here Imagine Inconceivable Intervention Life Malicious Our Ours Outside Own Someone Unconscious

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We're put here on Earth to learn our own lessons. No one can tell you what your lessons are; it is part of your personal journey to discover them. On these journeys we may be given a lot, or just a little bit, of the things we must grapple with, but never more than we can handle.

~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Topics: Bit Discover Earth Given Handle Here Journey Journeys Just Just A Little Bit Learn Lessons Little Little Bit Lot May More Must Never Our Own Part Personal Put Tell Than Them Things You Your

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It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on Earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up - that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.

~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Topics: Beings Continuously Dying Earth End Human Human Beings Just Lives Our Physical Something

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Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.

~Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.

~Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Topics: Comfort Creatures Dues Earth Fellowship Hospital How Learnt Many Simple Social

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