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Time hasn\'t stopped for any troubles, heartaches, or any other malfunctions of this world, so please don\'t tell me it will
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- C.S. Lewis, In Time

In Israel, free men and women are every day demonstrating the power of
courage and faith. Back in 1948 when Israel was founded, pundits claimed
the new country could never survive. Today, no one questions that. Israel
is a land of stability and democracy in a region of tryanny and unrest.
Ronald Reagan

Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty. -Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry Into The
Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, 1757

What we call Man\'s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its
instrument.

- C.S. Lewis, In Nature