The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting
for our wits to grow sharper.

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Great Spirit, today, open my ears so I can hear the Elders.

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A newly discovered monster planet is an advance base for an eventual invasion of earth, a top psychic warns. The planet was discovered by an orbiting telescope in the vicinity of the constellation Orion and is so huge that scientist believe is may be as big as Jupiter, the largest of all previously known bodies.

Because it’s so close to the other planets, scientist think that it’s the 10th body in our own solar system, so shrouded in dust that it took an infrared orbiting satellite to expose it to man's view.

"AII I can tell you is that we don't know what it is," says a puzzled Dr. Gerry Neugebauer of California's Palomar Observatory and chief scientist for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Astronomers believe that the planet is so bitterly cob that it casts no light and as a result, has remained undiscovered until now. According to Dr. James Houck of the Cornell University Center for Radio Physics and Space Research, the planet's temperature is 456 degrees below zero.

While the discovery stunned scientists, it came as no surprise to famed Scandinavian psychic Sven Petersen. According to Petersen, "For the past five years, I've been getting mental impressions of an unseen but enormous planet mysteriously orbiting on the very fringe of our solar system. The psychic impressions I've been receiving have been frightening, but I've tended to dismiss them because I accepted scientists assertions that all the planets in our solar system had been discovered eons ago. This new discovery, however, has proved that my impressions were valid, and they're very frightening."

Petersen is concerned that the planet is populated by a huge army of space aliens placed there centuries ago. He claims that, "They were transported to the planet over a period of hundreds of years because the incredibly cold temperatures make it possible to keep the alien soldiers in a natural deep freeze until the time comes to invade the earth. They lie there in a state of suspended animation, awaiting the time when their leaders, in another galaxy, decide to launch their invasion of earth. My psychic impression is that the aliens are awaiting the time when mankind so weakens itself through warfare and pollution of earth that it won't be able to offer even token resistance."

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Your talent is God's gift to you.
What you do with it is your gift back to God.

The past cannot be changed,
the future is still in your power.
You are never given a wish
without being given the power to make it come true.

- From the book "Bridge Across Forever" -
(by Richard Bach) Don't let today's disappointments
cast a shadow on tomorrow's dreamsSomewhere there's someone who dreams of your smile,
and finds in your presence that life is worth while.
So when you are lonely, remember it's true
Somebody somewhere is thinking of you.
The only place where dreams are impossible
is in your own mind.
Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy, it does not boast,
it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking,
it is not easily angered,
it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil
but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts,
always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails.
If you have it [love],
you don't need to have anything else.
If you don't have it,
it doesn't matter much what else you do have.

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How do astronomers know the size of the Universe? How big is the universe? Many astronomers think it has no end, so its real size cannot be measured. But it is possible to calculate the distance between the farthest known objects in ail directions and thus measure the diameter of the observable Universe.

The light from the most distant galaxies yet observed has traveled nearly 15,000 million light years before reaching Earth. So the diameter of the Universe, as far as we can see, is at least 30,000 million light years, or 180,000 million, million, million, million miles.

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Kahlil Gibran

The Prophet

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Behind every shadow of life is the great light of God.

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A little prayer on earth can ignite an enormous cosmic celebration.

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How is it they
live in such harmony

the billions of stars -

when most men can barely go a minute

without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.

There are wars
where no one marches

with a flag, thought that does not keep casualties from mounting.

Our hearts irrigate this earth.

We are fields before each other.

How can we live
in harmony?

First we need to know we are all

madly in love with the same God.

St. Thomas
Aquinas

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"The universe is full of magical things patiently
waiting for our wits to
grow sharper."

             - Eden Phillpotts

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               - Eden Phillpotts

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Perhaps they are not stars in the sky,
but rather openings
where our loved ones shine down
to let us know
they are happy.

-- Eskimo Legend

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My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him, all good things -- trout as well as eternal salvation -- come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easily.

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Let me walk in beauty, and make my eyes

ever behold the red and purple sunset.


Make my hands respect the things you have made

and my ears sharp to hear your voice.

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If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting
values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave
a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a
fitting place.

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Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet, and from it learn the all.

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We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves
after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

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Dive deeply into the miracle of life and let the tips of
your wings be burnt by the flame, let your feet be lacerated by the thorns, let
your heart be stirred by human emotion, and let your soul be lifted beyond the
earth.

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The greatest gift one can give is thanksgiving. In giving gifts, we give what we can spare, but in giving thanks we give ourselves.

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To be alive in this beautiful, self-organizing universe --
to participate in the dance of life with senses to perceive it, lungs that
breathe it, organs that draw nourishment from it -- is a wonder beyond words.

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Thanksgiving comes to us out of the prehistoric dimness, universal to all ages and all faiths. At whatever straws we must grasp, there is always a time for gratitude and new beginnings.

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Jesus invited his hearers to see reality as characterized by a cosmic generosity.

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I think over again my small adventures, my fears, those
small ones that seemed so big, for all those vital things I had to get and to
reach, and yet there is only one great thing: to live and see the great day that
dawns, and the light that fills the world.

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"We all sit around in a circle and suppose, while the secret sits in the center and knows"

Robert Frost

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Every being is an abode of God, worthy of respect and
reverence.

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My storehouse having been burnt down, nothing obstructs my view of the bright moon.

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What is a soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room.

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Even sticks and stones have a spiritual essence, a manifestation of the mysterious power that fills the Universe.
Sioux Indian

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.
Chief Seattle

The drum in a dream pounds loud to the dreamer.
Carl Sandburg

You can be in my dream if I can be in yours.
Bob Dylan

See the world as it truly is, small and blue, beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats.
Archibald Macleish

The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the Universe to do.
Galileo Galilei

"We had the stars up there," said Huck, "And we use to lie on our backs and look up at them and discuss 'bout whether they was made or just happened. Jim he allowed that the stars was made, but I allowed they just happened. Jim said the Moon could'a laid them; Well, that looked kind of reasonable so I didn't say nothing against it. I've seen a frog lay most as many, so of course it could be done."
Mark Twain (Huckleberry Finn)

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Na Arean sat alone in space as a cloud that floats in nothingness. He slept not, for there was no sleep. He hungered not, for as yet there was no hunger. So he remained for a great while, until a thought came to his mind. He said to himself, I will make a thing.
Maianan tribe, Gilbert Islands

They came to a round hole in the sky, burning like fire. "This," said the Raven, "is a star."
Inuit creation story

The cosmos is all there is, all there ever was, and all there ever will be.
Carl Sagan

The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started.
T.S. Eliot

For us physicists, the distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion.
Albert Einstein

I ain't no physicist but I knows what matters.
Popeye the Sailor

There are too many stars in some places and not enough in others.
Mark Twain

I'm astounded by people who want to know the Universe. It's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.
Woody Allen

A day is a miniature eternity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree, but it is what preserves it.
Confucius 500 B.C

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i want you to much,,like to be in the sky or like to be out of our world,,or like to near from you...im moon,...your my sun!!!!  jajajaajaj and our love is the galaxy !!!

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The Earth was unformed and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep.
Genesis 1:2

Nothing can be created out of nothing.
Lucretius 50 BC

We can never admit that anything should come into being out of not being. Something either is or it is not.
Parmenides 445 BC

You cannot make a big mistake about nothing.
John Dobson 1991

In the beginning there was nothing at all. To the north and south of nothingness lay regions of fire and frost.
Snorri Sturleson 1220 AD

In the beginning there was only Tirawahat, which is the Universe and everything in it.
Skidee Pawnee Indian

In the very beginning everything was resting in darkness. Night oppressed everything like an impenetrable thicket.
Tribe of Aranda, Central Australia

All was in suspense, all calm, all in silence, all motionless and still and the expanse of the sky was empty.
Quiche Maya

The creator, Awonawilona, thought himself into being.
Zuni Indian

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First there was the Great Cosmic Egg. Inside the egg was chaos. Floating in the chaos was P'an Ku, the undeveloped divine embryo.
Huai-nan Tzu, China 100 BC

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"The Sun is a mass of fiery stone, a little larger than Greece."
--Anaxagoras 434 BC

"Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you." 
--Maori proverb

"The Universe is populated by innumerable suns, innumerable earths,
and perhaps, innumerable forms of life. That thought expresses the
essence of the Copernican revolution. No revelation more striking has
ever come from the scientific mind."  --Robert Jastrow 1989

"To the best of our knowledge, our Sun is the only star proven to grow
vegetables." --Philip Scherrer 1973

"The purpose of life is the investigation of the Sun, the Moon, and the
heavens."  --Anaxagoras 459 BC

"The cosmos is all there is, all there ever was, and all there ever
will be."  --Carl Sagan

Some people can tell what time it is by looking at the sun.
But I have never been able to make out the numbers.  --5/6th grader

"Anyone who has lived through an English winter can see the point of
building Stonehenge to make the Sun come back." --Alison Jolly 1988

"One astronomer set up his equipment in an empty chicken coop to
protect his instruments from the wind, and then spent most of the
eclipse trying to shoo away the chickens, who dutifully reported to
the roost when darkness fell."  --Wm. Hartmann 1978

"Dew is formed on leaves when the sun shines down on them and makes them
perspire."   -- 11-year old, on a science exam

"Mankind will not remain on Earth forever, but in its quest for light
and space will at first timidly penetrate beyond the confines of the
atmosphere, and later will conquer for itself all the space near the
Sun." --Konstantin E.  Tsiolkovsky

"I'm astounded by people who want to know the Universe. It's hard
enough to find your way around Chinatown."  --Woody Allen

"In the Universe the difficult things are done as if they were easy."
--Lao Tzu

"Those bright spots you see are Solar Rays.  Each of those gas
bubbles is the size of the Earth!  NASA hopes this video will
help us understand other stars in our Solar System."
-- Reporter for Bay Area Channel 7 News (1997)

Did you realize that 4.5 pounds of sunlight hit the earth each second?
-- Mike Rushford

"Red sky in morning, sailors take warning.  Red sky at night, sailors
delight."  --Old Sailor's Adage

"Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so each
small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire
tapestry."  --Richard Feynman

One cannot learn anything so well as by experiencing it oneself."
                                -- Einstein

"The tides are a fight between the Earth and moon. All water tends
towards the moon, because there is no water in the moon, and nature
abhors a vacuum. I forget where the sun joins in this fight." 
-- 11-year old, from a science exam

"The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on
it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in
the Universe to do."  --Galileo Galilei

While the earth seems to be knowingly keeping its distance from the sun,
it is really only centrificating.   --5/6th grader

"We think that the Sun watcher is not a good man. He was wrong last
year. The Hopi think that is why we had so much cold this winter and
no snow."  --Crow Wing 1925

"And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the
Sun, and the Moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve
stars."  --Revelation 12:1

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."  --Albert Einstein

"The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught
fire."  --Pamela Johnson 1982

"One world at a time." --Thoreau

"Hitch your wagon to a star."  --Ralph Waldo Emerson

"That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of
empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder."
 --Calvin (& Hobbes)

"Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground."
       -- Theodore Roosevelt

"Sweetened by the Sun"
       -- On package of C&H Pure Can Sugar

"The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in
which we are permitted to remain children all our lives."
       --Albert Einstein

"Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers."
       --Voltaire

"You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him to
find it for himself."    --Galileo Galilei

"What is the Sun? If the science of astronomy could solve this great
problem, it would be nearly capable of solving that of the entire
Universe."  --Amedee Guillemin, 1870

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