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[Today is the feast day of Saint Nicholas and tonight is the first night of Hanukkah. Blessings to everyone celebrating either!]
"The West as well as the East acclaims and glorifies [Saint Nicholas]. Wherever there are people, in the country and the town, in the villages, in the isles, in the furthest parts of the earth, his name is revered and churches are built in his honor. Images of him are set up, panegyrics preached and festivals celebrated. All Christians, young and old, men and women, boys and girls, reverence his memory and call upon his protection. And his favors, which know no limit of time and continue from age to age, are poured out over all the earth; the Scythians know them, as do the Indians and the barbarians, the Africans as well as the Italians." -- anonymous tenth century Greek quoted at Catholic Online
From the Quotation of the day mailing list, 2014-12-22:
"...oh my gosh....i just re-listened to 'be my santa claus'...wow, i can't believe i wrote such a dirty song....! no, seriously....i don't think i knew what i was writing...it's quite shocking really-no wonder it's been censored by some radio staions!
"i'm really distressed. what if i damaged the image of santa for children everywhere?!?!?!? i am so sorry for being so irreverant - i promise to you all that when i write my next hit - 'easter bunny, you've been hopping all over my field for too long', i will try to do so with more taste and social responsibility!"
-- Shakura S'Aida, blues singer, in a Dec. 8 Facebook post.
[ https://m2.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10152609224813720&id=8405573719]
(submitted to the mailing list by Terry Labach)
"The darkness of the whole world cannot swallow the glowing of a candle." -- Robert Altinger
"Christmas brings enormous electric bills. Candles are used for Hanukkah. Not only are we spared enormous electric bills, but we get to feel good about not contributing to the energy crisis." -- Harry Leichter, HBS Alumni Bulletin, Volume 84, Harvard Business School, 2008 [listed as "anonymous" elsewhere, sourced via Wikiquote, fortunately]