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		Returning to the Moon with NASA astronauts is not the best usage of our resources. Because OUR resources should be directed to outward, beyond-the-moon, to establishing habitation and laboratories on the surface of Mars that can be built, assembled, from the close-by moons of Mars.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Buzz Aldrin
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When we're on set, we kind of joke around, and when we're rehearsing, we change up the scenes and make each other laugh. We lighten up the mood. The blooper reel is going to be amazing on 'New Moon.'
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kellan Lutz
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		We were involved in doing what many thought to be impossible, putting humans on Earth’s moon.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Neil Armstrong
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The moon puts on an elegant show, different every time in shape, colour and nuance.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Arthur Smith
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Elizabeth Moon's antagonists are always evil moustache-twirlers. She could write a book about a golf open and the main rival to the hero would turn out to have clubs made from compressed kittens.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				James Nicoll
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Dawns and sunsets. The Magic Hour - when the sun and the moon can be in the sky at the same time - a magic and disturbing occurrence for a child. And for an adult.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Peter Greenaway
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		The skies are haunted by that which it were madness to know; and strange abominations pass evermore between earth and moon and athwart the galaxies. Unnamable things have come to us in alien horror and will come again.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Clark Ashton Smith
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The small man builds cages for everyone he knows While the sage, who has to duck his head when the moon is low, Keeps dropping keys all night long For the beautiful rowdy prisoners.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Hafez
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Literally, my earliest memory, my earliest vivid memory, is the Apollo 11 landing on the Moon. Yeah, I was in fourth grade, and I was just so captivated. And I think you'll find a lot of space scientists of my generation will say the same thing. Apollo was a big event for them.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				David Grinspoon
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		During the days in detention, I thought most about the moon.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ai Weiwei
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		You can't love by desiring an extremely vague desire of a very vague moon.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Leonard Woolf
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		And suddenly the moon withdraws her sickle from the lightening skies, and to her sombre cavern flies, wrapped in a veil of yellow gauze.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Oscar Wilde
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		One of my earliest recollections is being woken up at some ungodly hour in the morning by my parents and sat in front of the fairly new black and white television, watching a grainy image of a man in a white suit climbing down a ladder. It was the first moon landing, and I became a sort of spaceman, as many kids were.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Charles Stross
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Arthur Rimbaud
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Did a man really walk on the moon? I saw plenty of documentaries on it, and I really wondered.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Marion Cotillard
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		He who would see old Hoghton right Must view it by the pale moonlight.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				William Hazlitt
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Once upon a time, there were two moons, who were sisters. Nitid was the goddess of tears and life, and the sky was hers. No one worshipped Ellai but secret lovers.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Laini Taylor
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Young people of this century, like my son, didn't live through all those things that went on during that period of time, from 1930 to 1950. They're missing that experience. To go from a bicycle to a vehicle that takes somebody to the moon - only we saw this kind of thing.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Sergio Leone