Christmas Eve

There’s nothing sadder in

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There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. Erma Bombeck

Christmas is a necessity.

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Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we’re here for something else besides ourselves. Eric Sevareid

Look, Mrs. McGillicuddy, it’s

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Look, Mrs. McGillicuddy, it’s not my fault your son jumped out a dorm room window on Christmas eve. I’ve written over fifty books as a Columbia professor, all right? You don’t do that by holding hands with every at-risk undergraduate who says he’s homesick, or he’s turning gay, or the dog ate his term paper. … Read more

Christmas… is not an

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Christmas… is not an external event at all, but a piece of one’s home that one carries in one’s heart. Freya Stark

Frankly, I do not

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Frankly, I do not like the idea of conversations to define the term \”unconditional surrender.\”The German people can have dinned into their ears what I said in my Christmas Eve speech–in effect, that we have no thought of destroying the German people and that we want them to live through the generations like other European … Read more

Let the children have

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Let the children have their night of fun and laughter. Let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures before we turn again to the stern task and the formidable years that lie before us, resolved that, by our sacrifice and daring, these same … Read more

Once again we find

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Once again we find ourselves enmeshed in the Holiday Season, that very special time of year when we join with our loved ones in sharing centuries-old traditions such as trying to find a parking space at the mall. Dave Barry