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1. In one of his quotes without any of the "seven dirty words", which comedian noted that "There are nights when the wolves are silent, and only the moon howls"?
2. Which American writer and humorist observed that "Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody"?
3. "Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote" declared which American suffragist in 1895?
4. Which American author and philosopher lamented that "The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them"?
5. Which U.S. president stated that "We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard"?
6. Which German-born physicist doubted quantum mechanics by asking if "the moon exists only when I look at it"?
7. Which British philosopher made the depressing declaration that "You see in the moon the sort of thing to which the earth is tending -- something dead, cold, and lifeless"?
8. "This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it" was the observation of which American T.V. newscaster?
9. "Any culture which can put a man on the moon is capable of gathering all the nations of the earth in peace, justice and concord" was the declaration of which controversial American president?
10. "The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk with" was one of many moon quotes by which Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet and biographer?
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