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"Christmas! The very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread the rush, the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given--when Christmas Day comes there is still the same warm feeling we had as children, the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our homes."	Joan Winmill Brown
"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense."	Buddha
"No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread."	Robert Burton
"I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all."	Miguel de Cervantes
"Most of today's books have an air of having been written in one day from books read the night before."	Sébastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort
"You can only find truth with logic if you have already found it without it."	Gilbert Keith Chesterton
"I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."	Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"Every man has one thing he can do better than anyone else--and usually it's reading his own handwriting."	G. Norman Collie
"Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin."	Quentin Crisp
"I am a firm believer of reading the horoscopes. I read all twelve, pick the one that sounds the best and go with that one."	David A. Cronin
"Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny."	Guy
"If what you seek is Truth, there is one thing you must have above all else..an unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong."	Anthony de Mello
"Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it, that even those most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of it than they already possess."	Rene Descartes
"A good deal happens in a man's life that he isn't responsible for. Fortunate openings occur; but it is safe to remember that such 'breaks' are occurring all the time, and other things being equal, the advantage goes to the man who is ready."	Lawrence Downs
"The sky is the daily bread of the eyes."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth... But amusing? Never."	Edna Ferber
"Johnny couldn't read ... for the simple reason that nobody ever showed him how."	Rudolf Franz Flesch
"Religion is not what you will get after reading all the scriptures of the world. It is not really what is grasped by the grain. It is a heart grasp."	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread."	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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