Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

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"Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for it is counterfeit."

- Hosea Ballou

Happiness

"Disease is the retribution of outraged nature."

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Health

"Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams."

- Hosea Ballou

Joy

"It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so."

- Hosea Ballou

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"It is at the moment of death that humanity has value."

- Archer

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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

Philosophy

"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

Philosophy

"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

Philosophy