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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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"She's a Texan, born and raised. Football is in our blood."
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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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"Rare and precious gifts,gold and myrrh and frankincense,to offer a king."
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"There's always time for arguin' when you're a Fuentes."
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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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"In either case, there was very much the same solemnity of demeanour on the part of the spectators, as befitted a people among whom religion and law were almost identical, and in whose character both were so thoroughly interfused, that the mildest and severest acts of public discipline were alike made venerable and awful."
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"I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round -- apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that -- as a good time: a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys."
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"My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind."
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"To the traditional Indians, terms such as "intercourse, "penis, "vagina, "clitoris, "semen, "masturbation, "breasts, etc. are exclusive possessions of the night. The traditional Indians perceive these terms as something "dirty. No matter how old they look, they really never grow up to talk and discuss about sex."
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"Aristocracy is always cruel."
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"We do not deny any nation's legitimate interest in security. But protecting the security of one nation by robbing another of its national independence and national traditions is not legitimate. In the long run, it is not even secure."
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"Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives."
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"Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have."
Freedom


"Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States."
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"We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added."
Business


"The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination."
Business


"Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man."
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"I've often said there's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse."
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"Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem."
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"Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world."
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