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• The common folk have many sayings, all about it being darkest before the dawn and clouds with silver linings and suchlike.
  We in the magical trade like to express our opinions of these matters somewhat differently....
• We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful new world.
  We will see it when we believe it. -- Saul Alinsky...
• Surf City ... here we come !
• Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us dare to do our duty as we understand it.
  -- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) -- Address, New York City, Feb. 21, 1859...
• In a Czechoslovakian tourist agency: Take one of our horse-driven city tours---we guarantee no miscarriages.
• When the night's darkest, the dawn's nearest. -- Proverb
• The following appeared in a newsletter from a national astronomy association.
  "Various sources are predicting higher-than-average temperatures across the country next winter, including in Sun City, the traditional location of our yearly winter conference....
• In each city in the region of Treehaven, the majority of the money spent on government-run public school education comes from taxes that each city government collects.
  The region's cities differ, however, in the value they place on public education....