"Happy Cinco de Mayo! It’s a holiday that’s as respectful of Mexican traditions as Epcot Center’s Mexican food pavilion."
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"A summary of every Jewish holiday: They tried to kill us, we won, let's eat!"
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"But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits."
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"In the house of God there is never ending festival; the angel choir makes eternal holiday; the presence of God's face gives joy that never fails."
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"[...] Technology has tended to devaluate the traditional vision-inducing materials. The illumination of a city, for example, was once a rare event, reserved for victories and national holidays, for the canonization of saints and the crowning of kings. Now it occurs nightly and celebrates the virtues of gin, cigarettes and toothpaste."
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"The Four Horsemen whose Ride presages the end of the world are known to be Death, War, Famine, and Pestilence. But even less significant events have their own Horsemen. For example, the Four Horsemen of the Common Cold are Sniffles, Chesty, Nostril, and Lack of Tissues; the Four Horsemen whose appearance foreshadows any public holiday are Storm, Gales, Sleet, and Contra-flow."
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"Valentine's Day: the holiday that reminds you that if you don't have a special someone, you're alone."
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"Each day of the holidays comes bringing its own gifts. Open your heart, Untie the ribbons, and enjoy the contents! Were earth a thousand times as fair Beset with gold and jewels rare She yet were far too poor to be A narrow cradle, Lord, for Thee."
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"When we were at the Apollo, Holiday was a block away. I asked her for her autograph."
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"The secret to making your holiday inspiring is actually quite simple. Be inspiring yourself. As with any change, you must be the change you want to see in others."
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"I always loved family holidays, and I had this vision and dream as a little girl of having a big family of my own."
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"Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday. In spite of its religious form (giving thanks to God for a good harvest), its essential, secular meaning is a celebration of successful production. It is a producers’ holiday. The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production. Abundance is (or was and ought to be) America’s pride-just as it is the pride of American parents that their children need never know starvation."
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"It's really easy to figure out why I love what I love, the holidays and food. I know the difference between having them and not having them."
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"Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap."
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"A systemic cleansing and detox is definitely the way to go after each holiday. It is the key to fighting high blood pressure, heart disease, cancer, and other health-related illnesses."
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"It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me."
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"If I die today, it'd be a holiday"
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"I do like Christmas on the whole.... In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill. But it is clumsier every year."
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"Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day."
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"You can leave a kid alone and it will learn to fend for itself, how to work the remote, a tin opener, and the microwave. I see the holidays as a chance for kids to learn self-sufficiency."
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