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One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day...

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The best Christmas trees come very close to exceeding nature. If some of our great decorated trees h...

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Andy RooneyAndy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit

The Christmas tree is a symbol of love, not money. There's a kind of glory to them when they're all ...

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Andy RooneyAndy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit

Gerald Middleton was a man of mildly but persistently depressive temperament. Such men are not at th...

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Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.

How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!

CALVIN:This whole Santa Claus thing just doesn't make sense. Why all the secrecy? Why all the myster...

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Calvin: Dear Santa, before I submit life to your scrutiny, I demand to know who made YOU the matter ...

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Bill WattersonIt's a Magical World: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection

Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to ...

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Bill WattersonThe Essential Calvin and Hobbes

My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think ...

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When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things - not the great occasions - ...

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The scientific creation story has majesty, power and beauty. and is infused with a powerful message ...

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Brian Cox (physicist)There's Probably No God: the Atheists' Guide to Christmas

If God annihilates or creates or deflects a unit of matter, He has created a new situation at that p...

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If God annihilates or deflects or creates a unit of matter, He has created a new situation at that p...

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Always winter but never Christmas.

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plen...

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To the American People: Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind. To cherish peace an...

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The curtains of his bed were drawn aside; and Scrooge, starting up into a half-recumbent attitude, f...

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Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall ...

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I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

Welcome, old aspirations, glittering creatures of an ardent underneath the holly! We know you, and h...

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Best and happiest of all, the Time before him was his own, to make amends in!‘I will live in the Pas...

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There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say...

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I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round -- apart from the venerati...

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Charles DickensA Christmas Carol

They are Man's and they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance and this gi...

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Charles DickensA Christmas Carol

And how did little Tim behave?” asked Mrs Cratchit, when she had rallied Bob on his credulity and Bo...

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Charles DickensA Christmas Carol

I have always thought of Christmastime, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, ...

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Charles DickensA Christmas Carol

He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and...

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But why do spirits walk the earth, and why do they come to me?""It is required of every man," the Gh...

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... I have always thought of Christmas-time... as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasa...

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Charles DickensA Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings

Good for Christmas-time is the ruddy colour of the cloak in which--the tree making a forest of itsel...

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What images do I associate with the Christmas music as I see them set forth on the Christmas Tree?.....

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...I do come home at Christmas. We all do, or we all should. We all come home, or ought to come home...

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Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeli...

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Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeli...

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Christmas is a time in which, of all times in the year, the memory of every remediable sorrow, wrong...

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Charles DickensThe Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain

Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.

Hark the herald angels sing "Glory to the new-born king." Peace on earth and mercy mild God and s...

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And I'll close by saying this. Because anti-Semitism is the godfather of racism and the gateway to t...

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I had never before been a special fan of that great comedian Phyllis Diller, but she utterly won my ...

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I think commercialism helps Christmas and I think that the more capitalism we can inject into the Ch...

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Its easier to feel a little more spiritual with a couple of bucks in your pocket.

I knew that I had been partially right in the storeroom above the bar on Christmas Day. Whoever I ha...

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Craig FergusonAmerican on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians called it 'Christmas' and went...

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Once again, we come to the holiday season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his ...

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Thank you," he says."Thank who?""I don't know.

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Dave EggersA Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Residents of the squatter community of Christiana, Denmark, for example, have a Christmastide ritual...

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David GraeberFragments of an Anarchist Anthropology

On a busy day twenty-two thousand people come to visit Santa, and I was told that it is an elf's lot...

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The only bright spot in the entire evening was the presence of Kevin "Tubby" Matchwell, the eleven-y...

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A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes - and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of ...

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Dietrich BonhoefferGod Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas

Advent creates people, new people.

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Dietrich BonhoefferGod Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas

...And then, just when everything is bearing down on us to such an extent that we can scarcely withs...

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Dietrich BonhoefferGod Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas

After that I went home and Sally put what was left of me to bed; next day, being a Christian family,...

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The Grinch hated Christmas! The whole Christmas season!Now, please don’t ask why. No one quite knows...

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Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before! What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come f...

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Dr. SeussHow the Grinch Stole Christmas!

He took the Who’s feast, he took the Who pudding, he took the roast beast. He cleaned out that ice b...

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Dr. SeussHow the Grinch stole Christmas! And other stories

It was snowing. It was always snowing at Christmas. December, in my memory, is white as Lapland, tho...

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Dylan ThomasA Child's Christmas in Wales

It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother do...

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Dylan ThomasA Child's Christmas in Wales

To perceive Christmas through its wrapping becomes more difficult with every year. "The Distant Musi...

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E. B. WhiteThe Second Tree from the Corner

If your Birthday is on Christmas day and you're not Jesus, you should start telling people your birt...

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If my Valentine you won't be,I'll hang myself on your Christmas tree.

Oh! lovely voices of the skyWhich hymned the Saviour's birth,Are ye not singing still on high,Ye tha...

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Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies!

And now brothers, I will ask you a terrible question, and God knows I ask it also of myself. Is the ...

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For outlandish creatures like us, on our way to a heart, a brain, and courage, Bethlehem is not the ...

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Go back to that night when Divine Light, in order to illumine the darkness of men, tabernacled Himse...

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A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through i...

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I am sorry to have to introduce the subject of Christmas into these articles. It is an indecent subj...

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George Bernard ShawDramatic Opinions and Essays

The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.

But old Christmas smiled as he laid this cruel-seeming spell on the out-door world, for he meant to ...

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George EliotThe Mill on the Floss

Without the door let sorrow lie,And if for cold it hap to die,We'll bury 't in a Christmas pie,And e...

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Nobody expects you to understand the mind of God or know why he would love us in the midst of our we...

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You can either complain about how hard your life is, or you can realize that only you are responsibl...

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Everyone wants to feel loved, but when all you feel is alone it's tough to accomplish anything else.

The entirety of his life to this point had merely been to prepare him for what he was to do next: br...

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God has accepted your repentance. He gives his forgiveness freely.

There would be no Christmas if there was no Easter.

Christmas it seems to me is a necessary festival; we require a season when we can regret all the fla...

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Graham GreeneTravels With My Aunt

Are you willing to stoop down and consider the needs and desires of little children; to remember the...

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Are you willing to stoop down and consider the needs and desires of little children; to remember the...

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I heard the bells on Christmas DayTheir old, familiar carols play,And wild and sweetThe words repeat...

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And in despair I bowed my head;"There is no peace on earth," I said;"For hate is strong,And mocks th...

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I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old familiar carols play And wild and sweet The words rep...

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Are you willing to stoop down and consider the needs and desires of little children; to remember the...

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Are you willing to stoop down and consider the needs and desires of little children; to remember the...

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At last the anchor was up, the sails were set, and off we glided. It was a short, cold Christmas; an...

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The town is mobbed out with Saturday shoppers looking for Christmas bargains. You can almost breathe...

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Merry Christmas," said George. "Don't go downstairs for a bit.""Why not?" said Ron."Mum's crying aga...

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The singing grew louder as they approached the church. It made Harry’s throat constrict, it reminded...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Mistletoe," said Luna dreamily, pointing at a large clump of white berries placed almost over Harry'...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

One can never have enough socks," said Dumbledore. "Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Like the Earth, the Web is a less appealing place than it used to be. If I want attitude and arguing...

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The great cause of the new Republican intake is the reduction of the deficit but to anyone seeking e...

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The Earth reminded us of a Christmas tree ornament hanging in the blackness of space. As we got fart...

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The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't f...

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Odd that a festival to celebrate the most austere of births should end up being all about conspicuou...

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Jeanette WintersonChristmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days

Anyone could see the ticker tape. It was more frightening than the that never stopped calculating th...

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Jeanette WintersonChristmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days

Jeff- "A Hanukkah tradition is making potato pancakes. For something a little different, use a sweet...

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There must be something ghostly in the air of Christmas — something about the close, muggy atmospher...

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Sillman looked at his interrogator with hopeless eyes. 'I think while I was passed out, I dreamed ab...

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