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		If you try to imagine, as nearly as you can, what an amount of misery, pain and suffering of every kind the sun shines upon in its course, you will admit that it would be much better if, on the earth as little as on the moon, the sun were able to call forth the phenomena of life; and if, here as there, the surface were still in a crystalline state.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Arthur Schopenhauer
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I was inspired by the men who walked on the moon. It really was my inspiration, I think, you know, as a kid of 9 years old - I know I'm dating myself, but - I thought, 'What a cool job!'
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Peggy Whitson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
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		The moon came white and ghostly as we laid the treasure down,There was gear there’d make a beggarman as rich as Lima Town,Copper charms and silver trinkets from the chests of Spanish crews,Gold doubloons and double moidores, louis d’ors and portagues
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				John Masefield
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Hear the mellow wedding bells, Golden bells! What a world of happiness their harmony foretells Through the balmy air of night How they ring out their delight! From the molten golden notes, And all in tune What a liquid ditty floats To the turtle-dove that listens while she gloats On the moon!
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Edgar Allan Poe
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I would rather people understand that there is a very, very fortunate American who was given the opportunity, and was in the right place at the right time to have the moment of a lifetime. My mother was born - her name was Marianne Moon. And she was born in 1903, the year that the Wright Brothers first flew.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Buzz Aldrin
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		it wont be long now It won't be long till earth is barren as the moon and sapless as a mumbled bone
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Don Marquis
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Buddha
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		No good deed goes unpunished. I missed the moon landing by being nice to a stranger.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Joe Haldeman
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		It seems to me,' said Magid finally, as the moon became clearer than the sun, 'that you have tried to love a man as if he were an island and you were shipwrecked and you could mark the land with an X. It seems to me it is too late in the day for all that.' Then he gave her a kiss on the forehead that felt like a baptism and she wept like a baby.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Zadie Smith
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Upon stepping foot on the moon, Buzz remarked to Houston, 'Beautiful, beautiful. Magnificent desolation.'
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Buzz Aldrin
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Every single thing changes and is changing always in this world. Yet with the same light the moon goes on shining.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Saigyō
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Witches are moon-birds, Witches are the women of the false, beautiful moon.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Amy Lowell
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Counting stars by candlelight all are dim but one is bright; the spiral light of Venus rising first and shining best, from the northwest corner of a brand-new crescent moon crickets and cicadas sing a rare and different tune.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Robert Hunter
			
			
				Grateful Dead
			
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		i fear no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true) and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you here is the deepest secret nobody knows
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				e. e. cummings
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		The Chinese are planning a manned mission to the moon sometime after 2020, and subsequently, to Mars. The U.S. has abandoned that dream.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				David Ignatius
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		'When you're finally up at the moon looking back on earth, all those differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend, and you're going to get a concept that maybe this really is one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people.'
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Frank Borman
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		My mother was a courageous woman, and she had such tremendous love for life. She loved the natural world. She would wake us up in the middle of the night to go look at the moon. When I was a teenager, this was a source of great frustration because I wanted to sleep.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Maya Soetoro-Ng
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I'm so over the moon that I have the opportunity to represent my country at a third Olympic Games.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Libby Trickett
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When you arrive in L.A. as an Englishman, you might as well be on the moon. People just don't understand you if you speak too fast, and most people there think you're Australian. Ordering was incredibly complicated. I was speechless.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ben Chaplin
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I was an eight-year-old kid when I watched the first Apollo Moon Landing way back in 1969 and there was something about that moment that really stuck in my head. I'd always been interested in space and flying and I was building model rockets and model airplanes, but something about that moment, I can remember like it was yesterday watching the Apollo Lunar Lander approach the surface of the Moon and then later watching Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin take the first steps on the Moon, and something that day started the dream for me that, hey, I want to be like those guys.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Leroy Chiao
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		The moon is bleached as white as wool, And just dropping under; Every star is gone but three, And they hang far asunder,-- There's a sea-ghost all in gray, A tall shape of wonder!
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jean Ingelow
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Anyone who knows music knows that Neil is about as real as it can get, and this along with seeing him perform 'Harvest Moon' on 'SNL' was my first experience knowing what real music really felt like.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				James Edward Olliges Jr.
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Earth would soon Be uninhabitable as the moon. What for that matter had it ever been? Who advised man to come and live therein?
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Robert Frost
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Moon, worn thin to the width of a quill, In the dawn clouds flying, How good to go, light into light, and still. Giving light, dying.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Sara Teasdale