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Listen, everyone, listen - earth-dwellers, don't miss this.
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All you haves and have-nots, All together now: listen.
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I set plainspoken wisdom before you, my heart-seasoned understandings of life.
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I fine-tuned my ear to the sayings of the wise, I solve life's riddle with the help of a harp.
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So why should I fear in bad times, hemmed in by enemy malice,
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Shoved around by bullies, demeaned by the arrogant rich?
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Really! There's no such thing as self-rescue, pulling yourself up by your bootstraps.
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The cost of rescue is beyond our means, and even then it doesn't guarantee
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Life forever, or insurance against the Black Hole.
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Anyone can see that the brightest and best die, wiped out right along with fools and dunces.