"Go, then! Go to the moon-you selfish dreamer!"
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"No! Please! I'll tell you whatever you want to know!" the man yelled. "Really?" said Vimes. "What's the orbital velocity of the moon?" "What?" "Oh, you'd like something simpler?"
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"The moon has set In a bank of jet That fringes the Western sky, The pleiads seven Have sunk from heaven And the midnight hurries by; My hopes are flown And, alas! alone On my weary couch I lie."
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"I always keep my weather eye on the opposition of my seventh house Moon to my first house Mars."
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"I sometimes think that as singles it's easy to bind to this mentality that my future husband's going to ride up on a white horse, I'll know that he's the one, and we'll start our life together. That happens to people once in a blue moon. I have heard of that - never really dated anyone and then this person comes along - but it's not probable that that would happen."
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"From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go."
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"There are essential and inessential insanities. The later are solar in character, the former are linked to the moon."
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"In solitude we are in the presence of mere matter (even the sky, the stars, the moon, trees in blossom), things of less value (perhaps) than a human spirit. Its value lies in the greater possibility of attention."
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"Clouds are like boogers hanging on the nostrils of the moon."
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"I lost my hat while gazing at the moon, and then I lost my mind."
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"The moon has become a dancer at this festival of LOVE."
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"I wish to cry. Yet, I laugh, and my lipstick leaves a red stain like a bloody crescent moon on top of the beer can"
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"Droplets, droplets: We are all identical drips and drops of people, hovering, waiting to be tipped, waiting for someone to show us the way, to pour us down a path. ... He has tipped us over, all of us in our teetering expectancy, and now we are pouring toward him, coursing on a wave of sound, of roaring shouts and applause. ... They are the moon; we are a tide, their tide, and under their direction we will wipe clean all the sickness and blight from the world."
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"He who, calm and clear as the moon, hankers no more for continuity-he is holy."
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"The raft is used to cross the river. It isn't to be carried around on your shoulders. The finger which points at the moon isn't the moon itself."
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"Men are climbing to the moon, but they don’t seem interested in the beating human heart."
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"The moralist and the revolutionary are constantly undermining one another. Marx exploded a hundred tons of dynamite beneath the moralist position, and we are still living in the echo of that tremendous crash. But already, somewhere or other, the sappers are at work and fresh dynamite is being tamped in place to blow Marx at the moon. Then Marx, or somebody like him, will come back with yet more dynamite, and so the process continues, to an end we cannot foresee."
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"A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon."
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"The moon is swimming naked and the summer night is fragrant with a mighty expectation of relief."
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"You can't love by desiring an extremely vague desire of a very vague moon."
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