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I do like Christmas on the whole.... In its clumsy way, it does ap

I do like Christmas on the whole…. In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill. But it is clumsier every year. – E.M. Forster

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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life. – E.M. Forster

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Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West. – E.M. Forster

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Failure or success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is this wriggle. – E.M. Forster

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I had eight brothers and sisters. Every Christmas my younger brother Bobby would wake up extra early and open everybodys presents – everybodys – so by the time the rest of us got up, all the gifts were shredded, ribbons off, torn open and thrown aside. – Tommy Hilfiger

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The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas eve is my mothers hand making sure I was settled in bed. – Paul Engle

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Why not share with the world the way it is and tell them my feelings about my cat, and how I played with my kids, and how addicted to Christmas time I am, and the smell of pine needles and hearing my kids laugh. – Steven Tyler

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In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the 8 hours when we stop killing each other and gratutious over eating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die! – Lloyd Kaufman

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Now my dad is with me, traveling with me and a big part of this whole thing is I like to mix it up a little bit, you know. Who gets to take their father on a private jet across the country and stay in first class hotels? So were enjoying it, but Id stop if its not possible. – Shia LaBeouf

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Personally, Im an advocate for short engagements. Long sometimes means there is a reason for it. Two years engaged and no wedding… Id be upset. – Emily Blunt

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An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness. – Clara Barton

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