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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
Moon

"Let the waters settle and you will see the moon and the stars mirrored in your own being."

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Zora Neale Hurston Novelist, Anthropologist
Moon

"So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day."

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B. F. Skinner Psychologist, Behaviorist
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"Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools?"

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Oscar Wilde Writer
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"And all the woods are alive with the murmur and sound of Spring, And the rose-bud breaks into pink on the climbing briar, And the crocus-bed is a quivering moon of fire Girdled round with the belt of an amethyst ring."

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Sandy Miller Author
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"You have to be able to appreciate these things. How many people can say it was a full moon last night and appreciate it?"

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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
Moon

"You are the root of heaven, the morning star, the bright moon, the house of endless Love"

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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
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"Most events recorded in history are more remarkable than important, like eclipses of the sun and moon, by which all are attracted,but whose effects no one takes the trouble to calculate."

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Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Spiritual Leader
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"If you are unhappy, even the moon irritates you, sweet things nauseate, music disturbs. When you are calm and centered inside, noise is musical, clouds are magical, rain is liquid love."

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Archimedes Mathematician, Physicist, Engineer
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"The diameter of the earth is greater than the diameter of the moon and the diameter of the sun is greater than the diameter of the earth."

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Ursula K. Le Guin Author, Poet, Essayist
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"Men call women faithless, changeable, and though they say it in jealousy of their own ever-threatened sexual honor, there is some truth in it. We can change our life, our being; no matter what our will is, we are changed. As the moon changes yet is one, so we are virgin, wife, mother, grandmother. For all their restlessness, men are who they are; once they put on the man's toga they will not change again; so they make a virtue of that rigidity and resist whatever might soften it and set them free."

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Saul Williams Poet, Actor, Musician
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"We are unraveling our navels so that we may ingest the sun. We are not afraid of the darkness. We trust that the moon shall guide us. We are determining the future at this very moment. We know that the heart is the philosopher's stone. Our music is our alchemy."

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