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"Whenever I have read any part of the Vedas, I have felt that some unearthly and unknown light illuminated me. In the great teaching of the Vedas, there is no touch of sectarianism. It is of all ages, climbs, and nationalities and is the royal road for the attainment of the Great Knowledge. When I read it, I feel that I am under the spangled heavens of a summer night."
"Behind the veil of each night, there is a smilling dawn."
"It's the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go."
"At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity."
"I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star."
"You can't get to no better days Unless you make it through the night"
"Drinking every night because we drink to my accomplishments."
"I hate leaving home. I love what I do, but I'd love to go home every night."
"The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long."
"Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night! - As Margo Channing in All About Eve"
"We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.'"
"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage."
"Poised for flight, Wings spread bright, Spring from night into the Sun."
"It is night, And it is vanity, and age Blackens the heart of Adam. Fear, The yellow chirper, beaks its cage."
"I think it's relatively easy for people to accept something like telepathy or precognition or teleplasm because their willingness to believe doesn't cost them anything. It doesn't keep them awake nights. But the idea that the evil that men do lives after them is unsettling."
"Dawn seemed to follow midnight with indecent haste."
"We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour."
"The only thing that has kept the race of men from the mad extremes of the convent and the pirate-galley, the night-club and the lethal chamber, has been mysticism - the belief that logic is misleading, and that things are not what they seem."
"An empty bus hurtles through the starry night Perhaps the driver is singing and happy because he sings."
"Night is the other half of life, and the better half."
