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2[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
3->''Uninstall\
4Uninstall\
5I know now that I am just a tiny grain of sand\
6Upon a vast beach\
7Without mercy [[ApocalypseHow/ClassX4 the tide's rolling in]]...''
8-->-- ''Manga/{{Bokurano}}''
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10
11[[folder:Comic Books]]
12->''"In my opinion, the existence of life is a highly overrated phenomenon."''
13-->-- '''Dr. Manhattan''', ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}''
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15
16[[folder:Comic Strips]]
17->''"That cloud of stars is our galaxy, the Milky Way. Our solar system is on the edge of it. We hurl through an incomprehensible darkness. In cosmic terms, we are subatomic particles in a grain of sand on an infinite beach."''
18-->-- '''Calvin''', ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes''
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20
21[[folder:Film -- Live-Action]]
22->''"Last year, Earth had a visit from another planet that had a grudge match that leveled a small town. We learned that only are we not alone, but we are hopelessly, hilariously outgunned."''
23-->-- '''ComicBook/NickFury''', ''Film/TheAvengers2012''
24
25->'''Ming:''' Klytus, I'm ''bored''. What plaything can you offer me today?\
26'''Klytus:''' An obscure body in the SK system, Your Majesty. The inhabitants refer to it as the planet... ''Earth''.
27-->-- ''Film/FlashGordon1980''
28
29->''The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding\
30In all of the directions it can whizz\
31As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,\
32Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.\
33So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,\
34How amazingly unlikely is your birth,\
35And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,\
36[[NoIntelligentLifeHere 'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth]]''
37-->-- ''Film/MontyPythonsTheMeaningOfLife'', "Universe Song"
38
39->''And crawling, on the planet's face,\
40Some insects, called the human race,\
41Lost in time, and lost in space\
42And meaning''
43-->-- ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow''
44
45->''"Space is disease and death wrapped in a darkness and silence!"''
46-->-- '''[=Dr. McCoy=]''', ''Film/StarTrek2009''
47
48->''"Earth? Horrible name for a planet. Might as well call it "Dirt". Planet Dirt."''
49-->-- '''Jetfire''', ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen''
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51
52[[folder:Literature]]
53->''"When I consider Thy heavens, the work of Thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which Thou hast ordained; What is man, that Thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that Thou visitest him?"''
54-->-- '''[[Literature/BookOfPsalms Psalm 8:3-4]]''', ''Literature/TheBible''
55
56->''"My travels in the ancestral mazes have memorized uncounted places and events which I never desire to see repeated. I have seen peoples and planets in such numbers that they lose meaning even in imagination. Ohhh, the landscapes I have passed. The calligraphy of alien roads glimpsed from space and imprinted upon my innermost sight. The eroded sculpture of canyons and cliffs and galaxies has imprinted upon me the certain knowledge that I am a mote."''
57-->-- '''Leto Atreides II''' - ''Literature/GodEmperorOfDune''
58
59->''"Mostly harmless."''
60-->-- ''Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'''s (revised) entry for "The Earth" in its entirety.
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62
63[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
64->''"Viewing so far away the Earth is like a mysterious blue sapphire."\
65"Aside from my Dora Scope the planet's just a swarm of filthy trash."''
66-->-- '''Bandora''', ''Series/KyoryuSentaiZyuranger''
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68
69[[folder:Theatre]]
70->''Ah, Lucifer, look back upon our Earth;\
71First did the flowers vanish from our sight,\
72And then the swaying branches of the woods;\
73The well-known landscape, with its pleasant haunts\
74Merged fast into a flat plain, featureless,\
75And every landmark faded and grew dim.\
76Then dwindled mighty rocks to clods of earth,\
77The cloud that lightning veils and thunder's roar -\
78The voice of God to them which dwell below -\
79We saw as vapour driven by the wind.\
80The boundless ocean's ever surging waves,\
81Where are they now? A shadow on the globe\
82That turns and mingles with a thousand stars.\
83And yet that Earth was all the world for us.''
84-->-- '''Adam''', ''Theatre/TheTragedyOfMan''
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86
87[[folder:Video Games]]
88->''"In one such world, in the corner of some backwater galaxy, humans rule over a senseless planet...However, that's about as important as a speck of dust in this pluralistic cosmos."''
89-->-- '''Pram''', ''VideoGame/MakaiKingdom''
90
91->''"What does [[ComicBook/TheAvengers Earth's Mightiest Heroes]] mean to one who rules the universe?"''
92-->-- '''ComicBook/{{Galactus}}''', ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3''
93
94->''"The story of the universe is beyond ordinary human understanding. Our tiny planetary home is lost somewhere between the immensity and eternity of the galactic ocean."''
95-->-- '''DJ Subatomic Supernova''', ''VideoGame/NoStraightRoads''
96
97->''"It's not much. And yet, so much blood has been spilled over it."''
98-->--'''Doomfist''', ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}''
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101[[folder:Web Original]]
102->''"Let's face facts: in the larger context of galactic civilization, we're the guys standing in the corner with no pants on clanking rocks together."''
103-->-- '''Michael Swaim''', ''Website/{{Cracked}}'', "[[https://www.cracked.com/article_16928_the-8-most-misguided-sci-fi-versions-2008.html The 8 Most Misguided Sci-Fi Versions Of 2008]]"
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105
106[[folder:Western Animation]]
107->''It's a great big universe\
108And we're all really puny\
109We're just tiny little specks\
110About the size of Mickey Rooney.\
111It's big and black and inky\
112And we are small and dinky\
113It's a big universe and we're not''
114-->-- ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}''
115
116->''"Until one day... very deep in a 6th-rate galaxy called 'The Milky Way'... circling around a 4th-rate star called 'The Sun'... on a 10th-rate planet, a strange creature appeared... a strange creature called 'Man'..."''
117-->-- '''WesternAnimation/BugsBunny''', ''The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie''
118
119->'''Yellow Diamond:''' You are to leave the Cluster to grow. It will tear apart the Earth, and I will take immense satisfaction in erasing that hideous rock off of our star maps! ''Is that clear?''\
120'''Peridot:''' ''I won't do it!'' [[HumansAreSpecial I can tell you with certainty that there are things on this planet worth protecting]]!\
121'''Yellow Diamond:''' What do ''you'' know about the Earth?\
122'''Peridot:''' Apparently more than ''you'', you...[[CatchphraseInsult CLOD!]]
123-->-- ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS2E28MessageReceived Message Received]]"
124
125->'''[[TheBrute Jasper]]:''' Why? Why protect this useless shell of a planet?\
126'''Peridot:''' It's not a shell. There's so much life, living here! That's what I'm doing! Living here!
127-->-- ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS3E22Earthlings Earthlings]]"
128
129->''"Your sentimental attachment is grotesque. Even you must realize how worthless they are. Such a savage world. Its scientific achievements paltry, its weapons unimpressive. To think that two Kryptonians chose to call this planet home sickens me. What could Earth have possibly offered you?"''
130-->--'''Brainiac''', ''WesternAnimation/SupermanUnbound''
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132
133[[folder:Real Life]]
134->''"You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, '[[SophisticatedAsHell Look at that, you son of a bitch]].'"''
135-->-- '''Edgar Mitchell''', [[UsefulNotes/TheSpaceRace the sixth human to walk on the Moon]], reflecting on his experience during Apollo 14 and the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overview_effect Overview effect.]]
136
137->''"The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster."''
138-->-- '''David Hume''', ''On Suicide ''
139
140->''"It is a stage in the decay of the solar system; at a certain stage of decay you get the sort of conditions of temperature and so forth which are suitable to protoplasm, and there is life for a short time in the life of the whole solar system. You see in the moon the sort of thing to which the earth is tending -- something dead, cold, and lifeless."''
141-->-- '''Creator/BertrandRussell'''
142
143->''"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.\
144The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. 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. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves."''
145-->-- '''Creator/CarlSagan'''
146
147->''"The universe is a million billion light-years wide, and every inch of it would kill you if you went there. This is the position of the universe with regards to human life."''
148-->-- '''Martin Amis '''
149
150->''"Apparently there is no profit in the unique, or not enough to make it worthwhile to preserve. Ultimately it drains the life out of us, and existentialism starts to make more and more sense."''
151-->-- '''Creator/LewisBlack''', ''Nothing's Sacred''
152
153->''"What are the lessons to be learned from this journey of the mind? That humans are emotionally fragile, perennially gullible, hopelessly ignorant masters of an insignificantly small speck of the cosmos.\
154Have a nice day."''
155-->-- '''UsefulNotes/NeilDeGrasseTyson''', ''Death by Black Hole''
156
157->''"It is only in light of the sheer and painful triviality of human existence in terms of the universe that creationism can be understood... This view treats recorded history as, effectively, [[IRejectYourReality the only form of history.]] Various dates exist, the most famous of which is probably Archbishop James Ussher's due to its alarming specificity, claiming that the universe was created the evening before October 26, 4004 BC. Physical evidence shows that this is only off by a factor of 2.25 million or so. This scale of error necessitates the assumption of [[GodIsEvil a Cartesian Demon of a God]] who laid an elaborate fossil record for, presumably, the sole purpose of fucking with arrogant humans. The fact that this view is preferred by some to science and empiricism speaks of the sheer damage done to the anthropic principle by science -- it is so unseated that a malevolent god is actually a comfort in the face of the sheer arbitrariness of humanity on the geologic scale."''
158-->--'''[[http://projectnes.blogspot.com/2010/10/baryogenesis-and-other-love-poems-color.html Dr. El Sandifer]]'''
159
160->''"Looking at the Earth from afar you realize it is too small for conflict [[{{Reconstruction}} and just big enough for cooperation]]."''
161-->-- '''UsefulNotes/YuriGagarin'''
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