"I know that, as night and shadows are good for flowers, and moonlight and dews are better than a continual sun, so is Christ's absence of special use, and that it hath some nourishing virtue in it, and giveth sap to humility, and putteth an edge on hunger, and funisheth a fairfield to faith to put forth itself, and to exercise its fingers in gripping it seeth not what."

-- Samuel Rutherford

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“It is easier to accept the message of the stars than the message of the salt desert. The stars speak of man's insignificance in the long eternity of time; the desert speaks of his insignificance right now.”
“Disloyalty is the secret weapon of the Tory Party.”
“Oh, the relationship with actors and managers and agents and things is a terrible problem sometimes.”
“I find it shameful that in nearly all the universities of Europe, Palestinian students sponsor and nurture anti-Semitism.”
“Choose your enemies carefully: you'll probably be known much better and far longer for who they were, than for anything else you ever managed to accomplish.”
“A lot of people can raise money.”
“Improving some of the rules under which the Senate functions can begin to replace some of the bad habits Washington has developed with better ones.”
“With 30,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations from the seasonal flu, those numbers are certainly higher than what we've seen of the swine flu. Protecting yourself from both viruses is very important.”

Source : "Kristi Yamaguchi, Olympic Ice Skater, Pushes Seasonal Flu Shots" by Amanda Gardner, abcnews.go.com. August 29, 2009.

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