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There are more things…that frighten us than injure us, and we suffer more in imagination than in reality
               - Seneca
                  Roman philosopher, statesman and dramatist
                  c 4 B.C. - AD 65

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Monday, January 18 is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day:

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
               - Martin Luther King, Jr.
                  American Baptist Minister and
                  Civil Rights Leader
                  1929 - 1968

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If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees
               - Kahlil Gibran
                  Lebanese-American artist, poet and writer
                  1883-1931

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New Year’s Day:  Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions.  Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.
               - Mark Twain
                  Pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens
                  American author and humorist
                  1835-1910

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I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old, familiar carols play
And wild and sweet
The words repeat
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
               - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
                  American poet
                  1807-1882
                  From “Christmas Bells”

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I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
                - Charles Dickens

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Kindle the taper like the steadfast star
Ablaze on evening’s forehead o’er the earth,
And add each night a lustre till afar
An eightfold splendor shine above thy hearth.
               - Emma Lazarus
                  American poet
                  1849-1887
                  From “The Feast of Lights”

Happy Hanukkah!

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It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive
               - Winston Churchill