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The Christmas spirit brings home to us-or should bring home to us-the profound Biblical truth that it is more blessed to give than to receive. Anything which inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.

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• Anonymity breeds meanness.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Anonymity
  • Meanness
  • Breeds

• Ultimately, I'm not the most prolific person, but I've been doing this for a long time, and I keep on putting out music. The only thing that drives music is the people who are making it.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Up
  • Why
  • Death

• As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It's a bittersweet memory but also a favorite.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Remember
  • Together
  • Dad

• Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Action
  • Little
  • Effect

• Things that happen in Wyoming are things that wouldn't happen in a big city - we've got bears, we've got a lot of shotguns - in Absaroka County, everybody's got a shotgun in the back of their car!

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • City
  • Car
  • Happen

• To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Life
  • Way
  • Life Goes On

• Our party never tolerated those who use violence for political ends. Our leaders lost their lives standing against terrorism.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Political
  • Lost
  • Party

• We've seen what happens when it serves a president's interest to flaunt his faith - which is almost inevitably does, since every poll affirms that Americans want their leader to submit to some higher power.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Power
  • Faith
  • Leader

• Even fictional characters sometimes receive unwarranted medical opinions. Doctors have diagnosed Ebenezer Scrooge with OCD, Sherlock Holmes with autism, and Darth Vader with borderline personality disorder.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Personality
  • Medical
  • Autism

• I don't think young men or women should feel pressured into marriage. You shouldn't marry anyone, in my opinion, who you have to try hard for.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Men
  • Women
  • Opinion

• Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Mother
  • Someone
  • Biology

• At age three, if you have a still-growing brain, it's a human behavior. In chimps, by age three, the brain is formed over 90 percent. That's why they can cope with their environment very easily after birth - faster than us, anyway. But in humans, we continue to grow our brains. That's why we need care from our parents.

  

  Zeresenay Alemseged
  • Why
  • Age
  • Parents

• I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Great
  • Write
  • Songs

• Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Friend
  • Friendship
  • Mask

• Nobody in my family was musical. I had no idea you could be a songwriter and make a living at it. It was all discovery. It was all just thrown at me.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • Family
  • Me
  • Discovery

• I think pink is one of the saddest colors in the world, and many American humans are taught not to take anything pink seriously, which is weird.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • World
  • American
  • Weird

• I wish my teammates, coaches and the entire Lions organization all the best.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Wish
  • Best
  • Organization

• You watch the Supreme Court in action on these cases, and they are a conflicted court. However, when it comes to speech issues generally, the court has been protective.

  

  Jay Alan Sekulow
  • Action

• Truth, according to the Christian faith, is God's love for us in Jesus Christ. Therefore, truth is a relationship.

  

  Pope Francis
  • God
  • Truth
  • Faith

• You know, I'm one of millions of undocumented people in this country who are living kind of under the shadows. And in many ways, coming out, it was my way of - at the end of the day, I think we have to tell the truth about this immigration system. And because of that, I had to tell the truth about myself.

  

  Jose Antonio Vargas
  • People
  • Country
  • Truth

• I think I definitely like the solitude of golf.

  

  Jason Day
  • Golf
  • Solitude

• What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?

  

  Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht

• The Christmas spirit brings home to us-or should bring home to us-the profound Biblical truth that it is more blessed to give than to receive. Anything which inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.

  

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