If you find a decent quote relating to Christmas, please add it in to circulation within the portal. Here are some instructions:
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- Make sure it is not a controversial quote, such quotes may be removed at whim if deemed inappropriate
- Create a subpage for the quote, such as Portal:Christmas/Selected quote/#, replacing the # with the number one above the current highest within the quotes.
- Accompany it with a freely-licensed image if possible
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Quotes
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Portal:Christmas/Selected quote/1
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I have often thought, says Sir Roger, it happens very well that Christmas should fall in the Middle of winter.
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Portal:Christmas/Selected quote/2
| Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart...filled it, too, with melody that would last forever.
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Portal:Christmas/Selected quote/3
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Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.
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Portal:Christmas/Selected quote/4
| There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
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Portal:Christmas/Selected quote/5
| Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.
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Portal:Christmas/Selected quote/6
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Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
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Portal:Christmas/Selected quote/7
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A little smile, a word of cheer, A bit of love from someone near, A little gift from one held dear, Best wishes for the coming year… These make a Merry Christmas!
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Portal:Christmas/Selected quote/8
| Christmas is for children. But it is for grown-ups too. Even if it is a headache, a chore, and nightmare, it is a period of necessary defrosting of chill and hide-bound hearts.
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Portal:Christmas/Selected quote/9
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Heap on the wood! — the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still.
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Portal:Christmas/Selected quote/10
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There is a remarkable breakdown of taste and intelligence at Christmastime. Mature, responsible grown men wear neckties made of holly leaves and drink alcoholic beverages with raw egg yolks and cottage cheese in them.
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Portal:Christmas/Selected quote/11
| Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food and beer. ... Who'd have ever guessed that product consumption, popular entertainment and spirituality would mix so harmoniously?
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Portal:Christmas/Selected quote/12
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Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white.'
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Portal:Christmas/Selected quote/13
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My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?
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Portal:Christmas/Selected quote/14
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In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians called it 'Christmas' and went to church; the Jews called it 'Hanukkah' and went to synagogue; the atheists went to parties and drank. People passing each other on the street would say 'Merry Christmas!' or 'Happy Hanukkah!' or (to the atheists) 'Look out for the wall!'
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Portal:Christmas/Selected quote/15
| At this festive season of the year, Mr. Scrooge, it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. Many thousands are in want of common necessaries; hundreds of thousands are in want of common comforts, sir.
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