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" Christmas is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace. "
Pope Francis
Christmas
Inner
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" Halloween isn't the only time for ghosts and ghost stories. In Victorian Britain, spooky winter's tales were part of the Christmas season, often told after dinner, over port or coffee. "
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" When I grew up, we always had our chickens, and we ate our eggs, and we ate our chickens. The family always had a pig, and we would kill it at Christmas and eat it for three or four months afterwards. "
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" Traditions are always puzzling to those who don't share them. I'm Jewish, so the idea of a 'perfect family Christmas' is foreign to me. "
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" Let us all remember this: one cannot proclaim the Gospel of Jesus without the tangible witness of one's life. "
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" Christmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday. "
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" When we made 'Life in a Day,' we asked people around the globe to record their lives on a single ordinary day. When we were cutting that film, we talked about what it might be like if we chose a day that already had significance to people. The result is 'Christmas in a Day.' "
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" I was lucky enough to grow up in a home where I woke up Christmas morning and had toys. I know that's not the case with all people and I don't think kids should go without experiencing that sort of joy. "
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" Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas. "
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" My authoritarian and quick manner of making decisions led me to have serious problems and to be accused of being ultraconservative. I have never been a right-winger. It was my authoritarian way of making decisions that created problems. "
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Me
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" My grandmother was a church organist, but we only went on Easter and Christmas Eve sometimes. "
Zach Anner
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" My first job, 9 years old, part-time, was selling Christmas cards door-to-door. Ten years old, my brother and I had paper routes. We delivered a morning paper called the 'L.A. Examiner.' Get up at 4 o'clock, fold your papers, deliver them and get ready for school. "
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" These days there is a lot of poverty in the world, and that's a scandal when we have so many riches and resources to give to everyone. We all have to think about how we can become a little poorer. "
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" We have to work harder to develop a profound theology of women within the church. The feminine genius is needed wherever we make important decisions. "
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" I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah. "
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" I think Father Christmas is real because the belief is real. The belief becomes the reality. "
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" I got up one Christmas morning and we didn't have nothing to eat. We didn't have an apple, we didn't have an orange, we didn't have a cake, we didn't have nothing. "
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" I made a Christmas album a couple of years ago and just put it out on my Web site. It kind of smacked of this flavor. All of the reviews said it was Western swing even when it was Christmas standards. "
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" I love singing Christmas carols. I know every harmony to every music-hall Christmas song. "
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" There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas. "
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" I was 23 when I learned how to cook; I grew up around the same time. It was precisely then that Thanksgiving started to mean something more. Growing up, Christmas was always about me, and eventually you, when I finally started to enjoy the giving part. But Thanksgiving is always about us. "
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" Christmas morning, I'm going to open presents with my kids. I'm going to take pictures of them opening the presents. Then I'm going to come to the Staples Center and get ready to work. "
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" I know CEOs, and they get sick when they have to lay people off, especially around Christmas. "
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" Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so. "
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" As a very young man growing up in Texas, usually I got a shotgun or cowboy boots for Christmas. "
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