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Stephen Leacock

"Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so."

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"Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so."

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"Are we a Christian nation now? It's doubtful. But did we start out as one? Without question."

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"When you listen to Christian radio stations - and there are thousands of them now in the United States - and when you listen to Christian television networks - and there are thousands of Christian television shows across the country - they are all politically right."

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"The founding document of the United States of America acknowledges the Lordship of Jesus Christ because we are a Christian nation."

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"No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man."

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"Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!"

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"If English was good enough for Jesus Christ, then it's good enough for Texas."

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"Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over the North, and slavery would die amid the flame of Christian remonstrance, and faithful rebuke, and holy indignation."

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"Here's the simplest answer: Within weeks, the disciples proclaimed the resurrection of Jesus Christ, that He had been bodily raised from the dead and appeared to them."

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"For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd."

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"I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come."

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