I don't go along with going to Moon first to build a launch pad to go to Mars. We should go to Mars from Earth orbit. We have already been to the Moon; we've already practiced.

quote by Wally Schirra
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It's great that people are interested in Mars.

quote by Jack Schmitt
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Extra-Terrestrial Ghosts

Ghosts are needed because they are rare,
Open the doors for their passage, and let
Speech inhibit their talk, in the world.
Haunted is a planet as well as a soul,
Going to houses haunted is unallowed, unfaithful
To the rest of humanity. We are travelling with experts
Who have green and red and blue, the primary colours.
In each is the seed of pleasure in the eye, in the one who beholds
As a man of silence. Describe this planet, I say to you.
Haunted planets are the worlds of non-delight,
And a Martian Landscape is far too ugly for us,
We shall outline them now with disgust.

poem by Naveed Akram
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0202 Elocution Practice For Verse Speakers

The life
on Mars
meets mainly in
the bars

they're found
by Underground,
that is, the Metro
they're mainly
hetero

so you may meet your
Mr Right
or maybe just
a meteorite

a Mars bar can
mislead a man.

poem by Michael Shepherd
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A blade of grass is a commonplace on Earth; it would be a miracle on Mars. Our descendants on Mars will know the value of a patch of green. And if a blade of grass is priceless, what is the value of a human being?

Carl Sagan in Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
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One ill weed mars a whole pot of pottage.

Danish proverbs
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I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth.

quote by Mignon McLaughlin
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Take Me to Mars

Yeah, cause when I drive in my car
We put heads in jars
So take me please, take me to mars
I wanna go where they are (2x)
I wanna go
Yeah, and if Im lost, well I dont care
cause I walk on endless stairs
You say its me, I think its you
Who can blame us for thinkin the way we do
cause we dont care what we are (2x)
Take me please, take me to mars (3x)
Take me to mars (5x)

song performed by Flaming Lips
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It mars to tie the dog to the butter stamp.

Faroese proverbs
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When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing the time on Mars as observed from Earth now? It's like time travel problems in science fiction. When is now; when was then?

quote by Bill Nye
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Loneliness

Never felt so lonely
As if I am on the mars
No one beside me

poem by Asif Andalib
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3 Days After You Were In School

It landed on Mars! !
And,3 days after you were in school;
Oh yes, you started school 3 days after 'Curiosity' landed on Mars.

He won the 100 Metres in London and,
3 days after you were in school;
She won the 100 Metres in London and,
3 days after you were in school;
And like the muse of the green men and the green women!
But, the green room is now waiting for the children.

The white light came in to direct you!
With words of care and the works of peace;
However, you were in school 3 days after 'Curiosity' landed on Mars.

poem by Edward Kofi Louis
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I hope I'm still alive to see an expedition set off for Mars.

quote by James Gunn
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Is There Life on Mars?

Up Up Up and Up into outer space
one giant leap for man and the human race,
blasting up towards that heavenly place
did you see aliens or angels face to face?
What's it like to walk on the Moon
do you think there's life on Mars or Neptune?
is time in space really fast or very slow
answers to questions wed all like to know.
When your so high amongst the stars in the sky
are you in awe, do you wonder, do you ask why?
they say you can feel the presence of God
when floating about in your space capsule pod.
From tiny Pluto to the red planet of Mars
Comets, Black Holes, and Shooting Stars,
mysteries and wonders so far away
where twenty four hours don't make up a day.
But after all of these years what do we find?
that there's no other life to worry mankind
but rockets still ascend up so high
leaving us earthlings to ask the question why?

poem by Kevin Halls
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Lovely Day

At the station, at the border an egression to the exterior law and order
Upward plantation
I remember your red dress
Like a field full o poppy
You were making me dreamy
Stunned by a love got to do what your head says
Could not let it stop me
They got one leaving today
And its going away
Got my feet in the stirrup
It can be kind of banal
But I dream of your red dress
Riding down these dry canals
Oh baby its not europe
But Im sending you money
Im sending you lots of money
So you can buy a ticket
You will be my martian honey all the day
They got one leaving today
And its going away.

song performed by Pixies
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I had friends in this band called Mars and they used to play a lot.

quote by Arto Lindsay
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Mars is essentially in the same orbit... Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe.

quote by Dan Quayle (11 August 1989)
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Wine mars beauty and destroys the freshness of youth.

Latin proverbs
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Mars admires Venus
rising phoenix like to surge, merge,
in gene I us

haiku by Jonathan Robin (30 March 2005)
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Man From Mars

Since I lost you
I cant get through the day
Without at least one big boo-hoo
The pain wont go away
What am I gonna do?
Man from mars
This time you went too far
I fall apart
Everytime I think of you
Swallowed by the dark
There is no center to my life now
No grace in my heart
Man from mars
This time you went too far
I call and call
The silence is so full of sounds
Youre in them all
I hear you in the water
And the wiring in the walls
Man from mars

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song performed by Joni Mitchell
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