Selfie

Look again at that dot. That’s here. 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. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every ‘superstar,’ every ‘supreme leader,’ every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
- Carl Sagan

30th anniversary of Voyager 1's picture of earth from the orbit of Saturn. My thanks to Earth Sky for covering this event.

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My planned posts for the month of February:

1. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. - Booker T. Washington
2. Each of you, as an individual, must pick your own goals. Listen to others, but do not become a blind follower. -Thurgood Marshall
3. Each person must live their life as a model for others. - Rosa Parks
4. I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying. - Michael Jordan
5. Just don’t give up what you’re trying to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong. - Ella Fitzgerald
6. Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. - Barak Obama
7. I swear to the Lord I still can’t see why democracy means everybody but me. - Langston Hughes
8. I changed what I could, and what I couldn't, I endured. - Dorothy Vaughn
9. Diversity is not about how we differ. Diversity is about embracing one another’s uniqueness. - Ola Joseph
10. Have a vision of excellence, a dream of success, and work like hell. - Dr. Samuel DuBois Cook
11. In order to succeed, you have to do well and perform well. Don't do less and accept less. Put in the time and complete the task. You want to be a contributing member to every group you are part of. - Jeanette Epps
12. My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together. - Desmond Tutu
13. If the only time you think of me as a scientist is during Black History Month, then I must not be doing my job as a scientist. - Neil deGrasse Tyson
14. I'm always interested in learning something new. - Katherine Johnson
15. Life is not a spectator sport. If you’re going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you’re wasting your life. - Jackie Robinson
16. If you don’t have confidence, you’ll always find a way not to win. - Carl Lewis
17. Never be limited by other people's imaginations. - Dr. Mae Jemison
18. Life has two rules: number 1, never quit! Number 2, always remember rule number one. - Duke Ellington
19. Every time you state what you want or believe, you’re the first to hear it. It’s a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don’t put a ceiling on yourself. - Oprah Winfrey
20. If you know whence you came, there is really no limit to where you can go. - James Baldwin
21. The greatest challenge that I faced in becoming a neurosurgeon was believing it was possible. - Alexa Canady
22. You are your best thing. - Toni Morrison
23. A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. - Nelson Mandela
24. Whatever we believe about ourselves and our ability comes true for us. - Susan L. Taylor
25. More and more, when I single out the person out who inspired me most, I go back to my grandfather. - James Earl Jones
26. We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It’s our basic human right. - Aretha Franklin
27. Have a vision. Be demanding. - Colin Powell
28. My success and failures make me who I am. - Janet Emerson Bashen
29. The time is always right to do what is right. - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Thanks to Parade for publishing this web site. It made the task of finding these quotes much easier.
My fav is #22.