""we make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give"."

Churchill, Winston on life
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"We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in Gods good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old. "

Churchill, Winston on uncategorised
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"'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale; 'twas Christmas told the merriest tale; a Christmas gambol oft could cheer the poor man's heart through half the year."

Scott, Sir Walter on christmas   

"There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas."

Lynd, Robert on christmas
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"He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree."

Smith, Roy L. on christmas
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"Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful."

Peale, Norman Vincent on christmas
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"I heard the bells on Christmas Day. Their old familiar carols play. And wild and sweet the words repeat. Of peace on earth goodwill to men."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on peace
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"Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night."

Lund, Thelma J. on friends and friendship   

"Call a truce, then, to our labors -- let us feast with friends and neighbors, and be merry as the custom of our caste; for if faint and forced the laughter, and if sadness follow after, we are richer by one mocking Christmas past."

Kipling, Rudyard on christmas
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"Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's family does too."

Unknown, Source on humankind
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"Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive."

Benson, Stella on family
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"You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates."

Bombeck, Erma on family
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"Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements."

Elizabeth, Queen on royalty   

"Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other."

Howe, Edgar Watson on children   

"Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape into an intensification of the conditions of ordinary life, into a deliberate aggravation of those conditions: further from nature, nearer to artifice, to abstraction, to total pollution, to well above average levels of stress, pressure, concentration and monotony -- this is the ideal of popular entertainment. No one is interested in overcoming alienation; the point is to plunge into it to the point of ecstasy. That is what holidays are for."

Baudrillard, Jean on vacation   

"Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!"

Bradley, Amanda on happiness   

"A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell."

Shaw, George Bernard on hell
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"One of the joys our technological civilization has lost is the excitement with which seasonal flowers and fruits were welcomed; the first daffodil, strawberry or cherry are now things of the past, along with their precious moment of arrival. Even the tangerine -- now a satsuma or clementine -- appears de-pipped months before Christmas."

Jarman, Derek on seasons   

"Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree."

Eliot, T. S. on babies   

"Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken."

Card, Orson Scott on words
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"I have found out in later years that my family was very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it. [On his childhood]"

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on poverty and the poor   

"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on principles
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"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on competition
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"The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on priorities
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"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on motivation
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"Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair."

Burns, George on government
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"To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success."

Marden, Orison Swett on honesty   

"Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less."

Anthony, Susan B. on feminism
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"The true Republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less."

Anthony, Susan B. on feminism   

"When women go wrong, men go right after them."

West, Mae on women
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"A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking."

Chazal, Malcolm De on women
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"Men now monopolize the upper levels depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence."

Peter, Laurence J. on feminism   

"The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul."

Goldman, Emma on causes   

"The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti-abortion forces; what they want is control. Control over behavior: power over women. Women in the anti-choice movement want to share in male power over women, and do so by denying their own womanhood, their own rights and responsibilities."

Guin, Ursula K. Le on abortion
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"The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen."

Key, Ellen on feminism   

"The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself: That is not what I meant by freedom -- it is only social progress. "

Deutsch, Helene on feminism   

"If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test: though a different opinion prevails in this country."

Wollstonecraft, Mary on feminism   

"Elizabeth Taylor is pre-feminist woman. This is the source of her continuing greatness and relevance. She wields the sexual power that feminism cannot explain and has tried to destroy. Through stars like Taylor, we sense the world-disordering impact of legendary women like Delilah, Salome, and Helen of Troy. Feminism has tried to dismiss the femme fatale as a misogynist libel, a hoary clich?. But the femme fatale expresses women's ancient and eternal control of the sexual realm. The specter of the femme fatale stalks all men's relations with women."

Paglia, Camille on acting and actors
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"Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women's issues."

Bunch, Charlotte on feminism
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"Our job is not to set things right but to see them right."

Butterworth, Eric on job
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