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Irving Berlin: “Got no check books, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks -- I got the sun in the morning and the moon at night.”
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Theodore Roosevelt: “Let us remember that, as much has been given us, much will be expected from us, and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips, and shows itself in deeds.”
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Irv Kupcinet: “An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: “I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.”
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Sarah J. Hale: “Our Thanksgiving Day, becoming the focus, as it were, of the private life and virtues of the people, should be hallowed and exalted, and made the day of generous deeds and innocent enjoyments, of noble aspirations and heavenly hopes.”
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Erma Bombeck: “What we're really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving?”
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Erma Bombeck: “Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.”
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Jon Stewart: “I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.”
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Robert Burns: “Some hae meat and canna eat, -- And some wad eat that want it; But we hae meat, and we can eat, Sae let the Lord be thankit.”
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Alistair Cooke: “It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it. ”
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O. Henry: “There is one day that is ours. There is one day when all we Americans who are not self-made go back to the old home to eat saleratus biscuits and marvel how much nearer to the porch the old pump looks than it used to. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.”
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Jay Leno: “Thanksgiving, when the Indians said, 'Well, this has been fun, but we know you have a long voyage back to England' ... ”
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Robert Quillen: “If you count all your assets, you always show a profit.”
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Phyllis Diller: “My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.”
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John Dietrich: “The President of the United States summons the nation to church on Thanksgiving Day to give thanks to 'Almighty God' for the abundant harvest and all other blessings. But what has Almighty God -- I have no desire to appear irreverent -- what has Almighty God as a personal being to do with the harvests? If it is he who produces our crops, then being Almighty there should never be a failure of crops. But since crops frequently fail, it follows that there is no Almighty person in charge of them -- unless he brings failure purposely. Therefore, if God is to be thanked for large crops, he must be blamed when the crops are a failure. . . . If God sends the rain and the sunshine which develops and ripens our wheat, who sends the storms and the insects which destroy much of it? And if he sends both, then why not thank him for one and blame him for the other?”
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Epictetus: “Reckon the days in which you have not been angry. I used to be angry every day; now every other day; then every third and fourth day; and if you miss it so long as thirty days, offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to God.”
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H. U. Westermayer: “The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving.”
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Robert Caspar Lintner: “Thanksgiving was never meant to be shut up in a single day.”
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Konrad von Gesner: “Best of all is it to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song.”
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