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Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill scoured by a whiff of arrogance. – Alistair Cooke

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Golf
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Alistair Cooke
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It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it. – Alistair Cooke

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Thanksgiving Day
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Alistair Cooke
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Other Quotes from
Holidays
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Christ was born in the first century, yet he belongs to all centuries. He was born a Jew, yet He belongs to all races. He was born in Bethlehem, yet He belongs to all countries. – George W. Truett

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Holidays

The only thing bad about a holiday is it is followed by a non-holiday. – Anon.

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Holidays

God walked down the stairs of heaven with a Baby in His arms. – Paul Scherer

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Holidays

So stick up ivy and the bays, and then restore the heathen ways, green will remind you of the Spring, though this great day denies the thing, and mortifies the earth, and all, but your wild revels, and loose hall. – Henry Vaughan

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Holidays

Random Quotes

Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the while I am being carried across the sky by beautiful clouds. – Ojibwe Proverb

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Sky & Clouds

The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemens opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved. – William Blake

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respect

I learn from thinking about the future, what hasnt been done yet. Thats kind of my constant obsession. – John Cale

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Future

Nature is the art of God. – Thomas Browne, Religio Medici, 1635

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Nature