The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

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"I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year."

- Charles Dickens

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"A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world! Hallo here! Whoop! Hallo!"

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"I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year."

- Charles Dickens

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"For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself."

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"God bless us, every one!"

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"Religion, ideology, resources, land, spite, love or just because… No matter how pathetic the reason, it’s enough to start a war. War will never cease to exist… reasons can be thought up after the fact… Human nature pursues strife."

- Paine

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"Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we’re here for something else besides ourselves."

- Eric Sevareid

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"Maybe Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. Maybe Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!"

- Theodor Seuss Geisel

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"Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home."

- G.K. Chesterton

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