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      "text": "It is written:\n\nThat given any one of a thousand million possible paths, life will take them all;\n\nThat worlds which will support life will give birth to it;\n\nThat worlds which cannot support intelligent life will be colonized;\n\nAnd that where both can take place, both will take place.\n\nIt is written that this is what the vast, unknowing interstellar stage is for: To be given consciousness and purpose while its gift of existence lasts.\n\nIt is written:\n\nThat this is a random process;\n\nThat in the end all will be darkness and silence again;\n\nBut that while it lasts, life spreads through it, to make it aware of its own vastness and beauty, which otherwise it can never have known.\n\nThis is a gift; but the Giver is unknown.\n\nThat too is written.",
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