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This document is a collection of quotes about the night sky and stars from various authors. It includes quotes that describe the beauty of the night sky and stars, their distance and nuclear fusion, how they allow the universe to understand itself, how people in the past viewed and understood the stars, and how the moon and stars can inspire awe and contemplation. The quotes are from authors such as Carl Sagan, Jack Johnson, Buddha, Mark Twain, and Alan Moore.
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- Earth is an inner planet that experiences seasons due to its axial tilt. The Sun's corona is seen during solar eclipses. Jupiter has giant storms larger than Earth. Life exists on Earth due to liquid water. Stars are mostly made of hydrogen.
- Apollo 11 was the first manned mission to land on the Moon. The Sun produces energy through nuclear fusion. Venus is often called Earth's twin. A year is one full revolution around the Sun.
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Never 2
Never give up and continue to do your best despite lack of credit from others. Do not respond to rudeness as it reveals more about the rude person than you. Also, do not push loyal people away or waste feelings on those who do not value you, and continue learning as life provides ongoing lessons.
Pains
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Never
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Friendship
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Risks
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Words
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Friends
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Try
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Love
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Under the stars
- 2. The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night – Haruki Murakami
- 3. If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore. But every night come out these envoys of beauty and light the universe with their admonishing smile – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 4. It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the beauty of the moon - Ptolemy
- 5. We are an impossibility in an impossible universe – Ray Bradbury
- 6. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence – Alan Wilson Watts
- 7. When look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shining because of distance nuclear fusion – Carl Sagan
- 8. And there were so many fewer questions when starts were still just the holes to heaven – Jack Johnson
- 9. Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon and the truth - Buddha
- 10. Don’t let’s ask for the moon! We have starts! – Olive Higgins Prouty
- 11. Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- 12. The moon went slowly down in loveliness; she departed into the depth of the horizon, and long veil-like shadows crept up the sky through which the stars appeared – H. Rider Haggard
- 13. Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest starts – JRR Talkien
- 14. We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself – Brian Cox
- 15. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they were made or only just happened – Mark Twain
- 16. All we ever see of stars are their old photographs – Alan Moore
- 17. Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them – Marcus Aurellius
- 18. I love the starts. Because they can’t say anything – Natsuki Takaya
- 19. Night is a world lit by itself – Antonio Porchia
- 20. The true joy of the moonlit is something we no longer understand. Only the men of old, when there were no lights, could understand the true joy of a moonlit night – Yasunari Kawabata