December 2011
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“One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living...”
– Andy Rooney
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“Faith is believing when common sense tells you not to. Don’t you see?...”
– Doris Walker, Miracle on 34th Street
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“Every Who down in Who-ville, the tall and the small,
Was singing! Without any...”
– from How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss
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“Here we are as in olden days
Happy golden days of yore
Faithful friends who...”
– from “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”
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“It’s Christmas time, there’s no need to be afraid
At Christmas...”
– from “Do They Know It’s Christmas?”
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“No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from...”
– Francis Pharcellus Church, “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus”
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“You may tear apart the baby’s rattle and see what makes the noise inside,...”
– Francis Pharcellus Church, “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus”
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“Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might...”
– Francis Pharcellus Church, “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus”
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“Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and...”
– Francis Pharcellus Church, “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus”
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“Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the...”
– Francis Pharcellus Church, “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus”
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“Ho, ho, but no matter. Christmas was on its way. Lovely, glorious, beautiful...”
– Ralphie, A Christmas Story
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“Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all...”
– Jean Cocteau
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“Even so, one step from my grave,
I believe that cruelty, spite,
The powers of...”
– Boris Pasternak
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“Christmas is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it’s...”
– Dale Evans
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“A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.”
– Catherine II of Russia
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“Blast this Christmas music. It’s joyful and triumphant.”
– The Grinch, How the Grinch Stole Christmas
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“It’s inevitable to lose now and again. The trick is not to make a habit of...”
– Henry Skinner, A Good Year
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“Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood...”
– Charles Dickens
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“Truth alone will endure; all the rest will be swept away before the tide of...”
– Mohandas Gandhi
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“In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible...”
– Albert Camus
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“Speed has never killed anyone, suddenly becoming stationary… that’s what gets...”
– Jeremy Clarkson, Top Gear
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“The thing about trains… it doesn’t matter where they’re going....”
– The Conductor, The Polar Express
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“Not all who wander are aimless, especially those who seek truth beyond...”
– Betty Warren, Mona Lisa Smile
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“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.”
– from “Closing Time” by Semisonic
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“Christmas! The very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread...”
– Joan Winmill Brown
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“Dwight’s name is on the security sign-in sheet, but I don’t know who...”
– Jan, The Office
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“Seeing is believing, but sometimes the most real things in the world are the...”
– The Conductor, The Polar Express
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“Age is something that doesn’t matter, unless you are a cheese.”
– Luis Buñuel
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“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
– George Eliot
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“The joy of brightening other lives, bearing each others’ burdens, easing...”
– W. C. Jones
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“I wouldn’t say Jamie’s an evil genius… I’m not sure he’s...”
– Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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“Believe in what your heart is saying
Hear the melody that’s playing...”
– from “Believe” as performed by Josh Groban on The Polar Express soundtrack
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“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear.”
– Mark Twain
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“Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure.”
– Meister Eckhart
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“What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope...”
– Agnes M. Pharo
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“Oh, forgive me for not being one of those anorexic babies from the diaper...”
– Stewie, Family Guy
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“Remember, George: no man is a failure who has friends.”
– Clarence, It’s A Wonderful Life
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“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are...”
– Marianne Williamson
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“I’m dreaming of a white Christmas
Just like the ones I used to know...”
– from “White Christmas”, written by Irving Berlin
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“You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.”
– Robin Williams
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“We will fight until we live in a world where free Americans everywhere seek not...”
– Jon Stewart, The Daily Show
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“You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they...”
– Albus Dumbledore, in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
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“Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer...”
– Norman Vincent Peale
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KERMIT: I didn’t promise anybody anything. What do I know about Hollywood, anyway? Just a dream I got from sitting through too many double features.
KERMIT’S CONSCIENCE: So why did you leave the swamp in the first place?
KERMIT: ‘Cause some agent fella said I had talent. He probably says that to everybody.
KERMIT’S CONSCIENCE: On the other hand, if you hadn’t left...
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“Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination. But just as a muscle grows...”
– Walt Disney
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FISHER: You have a son. You tell me - is letting your child have a simple casual sexual encounter really too much to ask for?
ANGELA: Well, my son is 8 months old, Fisher. He doesn’t date a lot.
- from Bones
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“If there is effort, there is always accomplishment.”
– Jigoro Kano
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“Probably the reason we all go so haywire at Christmas time with the endless...”
– Harlan Miller
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“Your task is not to foresee the future, but to enable it.”
– Antoine de Saint Exupery
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“There is no ideal Christmas; only the one Christmas you decide to make as a...”
– Bill McKibben