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[Found words] Echoing a new kind of dual awareness, the sense of our planet as one in a vast number and the sense of our planet as a place whose destiny depends upon us. At this moment, for the first time, we saw ourselves from a distance, and the earth in its surrounding dark emptiness not only seemed impossibly beautiful but also impossibly fragile. Most of all, we could see clearly that it was finite. [1269]

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