"All families had their special Christmas food. Ours was called Dutch Bread, made from a dough halfway between bread and cake, stuffed with citron and every sort of nut from the farm - hazel, black walnut, hickory, butternut."

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Source : Paul Engle (1960). “Prairie Christmas”

Paul Engle

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“The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances.”
“There is a genius on one side of every trade and a dolt on the other, but which is which does not become clear until much later,”

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“I draw the line at letting people into my songwriting cave. To me, that's where the alchemy happens and where the mystery is.”
“The entire cosmos is a cooperative. The sun, the moon, and the stars live together as a cooperative. The same is true for humans and animals, trees, and the Earth. When we realize that the world is a mutual, interdependent, cooperative enterprise -- then we can build a noble environment. If our lives are not based on this truth, then we shall perish.”
“I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.”
“The true seeker hunts naught but the object of his quest, and the lover has no desire save union with his Beloved.”
“Fighting is spiritual. It appears to be physical from the layman's eyes. In my fights, I seemed to be angry and mad - all that stuff you saw me doing, the yelling and screaming and being mean in the ring - but I'm cool as a cucumber. I can hear everybody talking around me outside of the ring. I can see everybody. I know what is going on.”
“I like watching DVDs, flying my plane, walking and going to my place in Scotland. I like yoga. It takes me a while to unwind, the subconscious parts of my mind take a while to catch up with the rest of me.”

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