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"Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees, tinsel and reindeers, but there must be no mention of the man whose birthday is being celebrated. One wonders how a teacher would answer if a student asked why it was called Christmas."
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"Cultural values change with times, unless they are built on an absolute standard of values and virtues. This standard must be afterwards well-guarded and protected."
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"Even when she had to make some one a present of the kind called 'useful,' when she had to give an armchair or some table-silver or a walking-stick, she would choose 'antiques,' as though their long desuetude had effaced from them any semblance of utility and fitted them rather to instruct us in the lives of the men of other days than to serve the common requirements of our own."
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"I reserve magick for necessities, a bit like the good china. It has a time and a place, but eating peanut butter sandwiches off it each morning chips and devalues it."
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"Those that cannot produce ideas often speak with the old proverbs!"
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"Rare and precious gifts,gold and myrrh and frankincense,to offer a king."
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"Every generation is inculcated in traditions of prejudice which are encouraged as normal, natural and healthy."
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"Plato forbids children wine till eighteen years of age, and to get drunk till forty; but, after forty, gives them leave to please themselves, and to mix a little liberally in their feasts the influence of Dionysos, that good deity who restores to younger men their gaiety and to old men their youth...fit to inspire old men with mettle to divert themselves in dancing and music; things of great use, and that they dare not attempt when sober."
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"Religious ceremonies are of paramount importance in Bali ( an island, don't forget, with seven unpredictable volcanoes on it-you would pray, too)."
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"She has very strong ideas about family - ideas that probably sound kind of sexist to you. She believes all dhampirs should train and put in time as guardians, but that the women should eventually return home to raise their children together.But not the men?No, he said wryly. She thinks men still need to stay out there and kill Strigoi."
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"So when modern-day religious conservatives wax nostalgic about how marriage is a sacred tradition that reaches back into history for thousands of uninterrupted years, they are absolutely correct, but in only one respect-only if they happen to be talking about Judaism."
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"Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man."
Business
"Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources."
Wisdom
"Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing."
Justice
"To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will."
Courage
"Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music."
Life
"If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen."
Love
"If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party."
Politics
"I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself."
Humor
"But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret."
Humor
"Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty."
Freedom
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