"Xmas Trivia: Before it became a major shopping holiday, Christmas is believed to have had a "religious" meaning."

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Andy Borowitz

#Christmas Quotes #Religious Quotes #Xmas Quotes

“When you are accompanied by the instrument - on an instrument like the lute-the lute and voice - you have this sound, and you feel how the music can be so touching and yet so simple.”
“My wife and I want to try swapping. We want to go to one of those key parties where you put your keys in a bowl. But we just want to upgrade our car.”
“Knitters use knitting to value-add to the world.”
“Constructing passive sentences is a way of concealing your own testicles.”

Source : "Fictional character: Dr. Ernesto Morales". "The Treatment", www.imdb.com. 2006.
“Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure.”
“Our fate is something which exists outside ourselves, and which once revealed expresses the meaning of our lives. Apart, however, from soothsayers who claim to have a means of foretelling exactly what will befall us, this kind of fate is only normally revealed after a life has ended. Only then can the meaning of that life be understood.”

Source : Andrew Gamble (2013). “Politics and Fate”, p.19, John Wiley & Sons
“Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests.”
“Philosophy is the childhood of the intellect, and a culture that tries to skip it will never grow up.”

Source : Thomas Nagel (1989). “The View From Nowhere”, p.12, Oxford University Press

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