"Nothing fails like success nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause."
-Phyllis McGinley
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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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"In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime."
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"Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure."
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"Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful."
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"Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with a man, one man."
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"Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone."
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"At school, there was an annual school disco and I'd be standing in my bedroom wondering what to wear for hours on end. Eventually I'd arrive at a decision that was just the most ridiculous costume you could have ever devised - I think it was probably knitted Christmas jumpers on top of buttoned-up white shirts."
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"No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas."
-Alfred E. Smith
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"In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the 8 hours when we stop killing each other and gratutious over eating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die!"
-Lloyd Kaufman
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"I wouldn't recommend young kids see 'Speedway Junkie.' It's definitely an age-appropriate movie - dark and realistic and edgy. If young kids want to see me, go see the Christmas movie."
-Jonathan Taylor Thomas
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