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"...and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work."


This caught my attention because, you have to go through the hard work before you get to where you want to be. And by that, it shows us that if we want something we have try our best to achieve it. Everyone, well most people are like lotus flowers. They have to grow through mud and dirt before they begin to bloom; just like any other flower. If you go through hard work before you succeed then you know that you deserve it. 


If he didn't try so hard to get where he wanted to be, then would he be where he is at now? Does he think he deserves it? 


This man seems really successful, he should be grateful for where he's at and what he has. Does he ever take advantage of his fame or money? Like for example, how when people become rich and they just become all cocky and selfish. Im always curious about that. Does he still have to work hard just like before?


I contemplated on this quote and it made me realize that everyone has to go through that stage in life, especially the famous people. I've seen many others try their best and they have succeeded. This quote reminds me of my mom because she always tries her best at what she does, and I see her now and she's gone so far in life. She never gives up, she always finishes what she started. And that's what motivates me to do the same. 

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“Now the first thing you are likely to realize is that space is extremely well named and rather dismayingly uneventful. Our solar system may be the liveliest thing for trillions of miles, but all the visible stuffin it-the Sun, the planets and their moons, the billion or so tumbling rocks of the asteroid belt comets, and other miscellaneous drifting detritus-fills less than a trillionth of the available space. You also quickly realize that none of the maps you have ever seen of the solar system were remotely drawn to scale. Most schoolroom charts show the planets coming one after the other at neighborly intervals-the outer giants actually cast shadows over each other in many illustrations-but this is a necessary deceit to get them all on the same piece of paper. Neptune in reality isn’t just a little bit beyond Jupiter, it’s way beyond Jupiter-five times farther from Jupiter than Jupiter is from us, so far out that it receives only 3 percent as much sunlight as Jupiter.”

This quote caught my attention because the way it explained our solar system was crazy to believe. Our solar system is really humongous, and yet some how I've always seen the earth as a big place it's self. Reading this passage makes me realize that earth and our universe is really tiny compared to Our solar system. It'd be really crazy to find life on another planet... This makes me wonder, Is there another planet similar to earth that people will be able to live on in the future? Who knows.

I wonder if there are other creatures in different planets that we don't know about. What if there was a new planet that was unknown beyond the moon? Maybe years from now some astronauts will discover my answer. But for now the answer remains unknown.

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"I didn't know if the oceans were growing more salty with time or less, and whether ocean salinity levels was something I should be concerned about or not"
I like how this article presented Bill Bryson's ideas with lots of questions, then explanations. The article made me curious and opened minded about these things in life. The quote above was the one I chose because, Bill explained it and then went deeper into the science aspect of it.