Consider Christmascould Satan in his most malignant mood have devised a worse combination of graft plus bunkum than the system whereby several hundred million people get a billion or so gifts for which they have no use, and some thousands of shop clerks die of exhaustion while selling them, and every other child in the Western world is made ill from overeatingall in the name of the lowly Jesus?
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Probably the reason we all go so haywire at Christmas time with the endless unrestrained and often silly buying of gifts is that we don't quite know how to put our love into words
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Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents
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People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.
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To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul.
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They (the days) come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party; but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away
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Everything great that we know has come from neurotics. Never will the world be aware of how much it owes to them, nor above all what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it.
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If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
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We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.
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Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
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The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
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Fidelity is a gift not a requirement.
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To be a well-favored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature
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To be a well-flavored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature.
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I tell Thee that man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find some one quickly to whom he can hand over that gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born
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Freedom bestows on us the priceless gift of opportunity - if we neglect our opportunities we shall certainly lose our freedom
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No friendship can survive the gift of gold.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment
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We inadvertently bombed the Chinese Embassy. But Clinton now is working very hard. He has sent a letter of apology to the Chinese. And, he's also given them a gift certificate for future nuclear secrets.
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Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
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To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with such generosity of heart that your love is still a dear possession in absence or unkindness - these are the gifts which money cannot buy
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Gifts have ribbons, not strings.
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Gift, like genius, I often think only means an infinite capacity for taking pains
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The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
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