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Your Quotes for 9 November 2005 - Dark

At 5:16 pm (and 11 seconds) on this day in 1965, a shoebox-sized relay at the Sir Adam Beck generating station in Queenston, Ontario tripped, shutting down a key electrical transmission line. New York went dark. Hundreds of thousands were stuck in darkened subway tunnels or left in immobile elevators. Surgeons completed surgery by candle light. From an incorrect setting on one relay, one resource after another went off line like falling dominoes, and within 12 minutes New York City was without power, along with much of the rest of the state, most of New England, and Ontario. It was the largest power failure in history, and left millions in the Dark.

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
     - Charles A. Beard, 1874 - 1948

There are stars whose radiance is visible on earth though they have long been extinct. There are people whose brilliance continues to light the world though they are no longer among the living. These lights are particularly bright when the night is dark.
     - Hannah Senesh

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
     - Helen Keller, 1880 - 1968

History is made at night. Character is what you are in the dark.
     - Lord John Whorfin

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.
     - Desiderius Erasmus, 1466 - 1536

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
     - Plato

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