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Your Quotes for 21 December 2005 - Darkness

As our slightly-tilted planet makes its annual journey around the sun, there comes a day with the least light available of the whole year. The moment at which the earth tilts as far as possible away from the sun is called the solstice, which occurs at 18:35 UTC (10:35 AM Pacific Time) today. It's why the illumination we talked about yesterday is so important to us at this season, and why all the lights we string and candles we light seem so brilliant.

Science has 'explained' nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
     - Aldous Leonard Huxley, 1894 - 1963

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.
     - Carl Gustav Jung, 1875 - 1961

Flowers grow out of dark moments.
     - Corita Kent

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.
     - Corrie Ten Boom, 1892 - 1987

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous, unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.
     - Henry Miller, 1891 - 1980

The darkest hour has only 60 minutes.
     - Morris Mandel

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