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The Ancient Dream
Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love. -- Lucinda Franks
Jolly St. Nick
The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live. -- George Carlin
Christmas Stockings
When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs? -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Friendships
Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Weak Sympathy
However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbors, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the whole British Empire in a war simply on her account. -- Neville Chamberlain
Danger of Dictators
1) In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order. 2) It's not for me. I tried human flesh and it's too salty for my taste. -- Idi Amin
Being True
If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there's no success like failure -- Bob Dylan
Omnipotent Power
Our contemporaries are constantly wracked by two warring passions: they feel the need to be led and the desire to remain free. Unable to destroy either of these contrary instincts, they seek to satisfy both at once. They imagine a single, omnipotent, tutelary ...
Peanuts Logic
"What shape would the world be in today if everyone settled for being average?" --Lucy van Pelt (Peanuts)
Research for the Cure
In my opinion, we don't devote nearly enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks. Calvin and Hobbes
Non-Violent Resistance
Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored." ~ Martin Luther ...
Dealing Judgment
Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
Food and Cheer
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. -- J.R.R. Tolkien
Stop Acting
Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed. -- Wayne Dyer
Dwelling on the Past
You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space. -- Johnny Cash
On Being Wrong
If you've done something wrong, you cannot hope to make amends unless you've admitted the truth to yourself about yourself and your actions. -- Anonymous
Pearl Harbor Laughs
My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor. -- Phyllis Diller Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell, no! -- John Belushi
Wars of Necessity
Today, war of necessity is used by critics of military action to describe unavoidable response to an attack like that on Pearl Harbor that led to our prompt, official declaration of war, while they characterize as unwise wars of choice the wars in Korea, Vietnam ...
Christmas Parties
What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day. -- Phyllis Diller
Christmas Is...
Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. -- Calvin Coolidge
Preparation
Fortune favors the prepared mind. -- Louis Pasteur
Leadership and Progress
Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better. -- Harry S. Truman
On Great States and Diversity
...the only security that a republican government possesses against these evils lies in the support of the majority. This support is not, however, proportionably greater in a large republic than in a small one; and thus, while the means of attack perpetually ...
All the Way
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all? -- Joe Namath
Learning From Defeat
We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters. -- Robert E. Lee