Category: Quotations
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Happy New Year
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.Thomas Jefferson
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Christmas
Christmas is for children. But it is for grown-ups too. Even if it is a headache, a chore, and nightmare, it is a period of necessary defrosting of chill and hide-bound hearts.Lenora Mattingly Weber
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Politics
The reason we have politics at all is that we disagree, sometimes deeply, about how to promote the common good, and we need a peaceful and productive way to resolve or at least manage these disagreements.Ramesh Ponnuru, Bloomberg News, StarTribune, 28-Dec-2011
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Trust
I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.Jewish ProverbGod never gives you more than you can handle, but I wish he didn’t trust me so much…
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Merry Christmas
Men’s courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead, said Scrooge. But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change. Say it is thus with what you show me!Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
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Optimism
Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe