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• When I found out that Santa Claus wasn't real, I wasn't upset; rather, I was relieved that there was a much simpler phenomenon to explain how so many children all over the world got presents on the same night! The story had been getting pretty complicated -- it was getting out of hand.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Children, Real, Night

  Richard P. Feynman (2011). “"What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character”, p.26, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The idea of God as a fatherly figure who looks down on us and worries about how we're doing or takes sides when we have fights - it's more irritating than Santa Claus. The world and the universe are far more wonderful if there's not a puppet master.

  Dave Matthews

  Fighting, Ideas, Worry

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• I hear that in many places something has happened to Christmas; that it is changing from a time of merriment and carefree gaiety to a holiday which is filled with tedium; that many people dread the day and the obligation to give Christmas presents is a nightmare to weary, bored souls; that the children of enlightened parents no longer believe in Santa Claus; that all in all, the effort to be happy and have pleasure makes many honest hearts grow dark with despair instead of beaming with good will and cheerfulness.

  Julia Peterkin

  Christmas, Xmas, Children

  "A Plantation Christmas". Book by Julia Peterkin, 1934.

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• I think Santa Claus is, by and large, quite beneficial, for when the child is finally allowed -- or forced -- to recognize the nonexistence of Santa Claus, then the child is able to go through the vital intellectual process of reconstructing reality in light of new evidence, complete with back-forming new stories to account for past events. This prepares the child for many other disillusionments and gives her vital and well-supported experience in maintaining her grip on reality independent of the stories told to her at any given time.

  Orson Scott Card

  Children, Independent, Past

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• Santa Claus is a god. He's no less a god than Ahura Mazda, or Odin, or Zeus. Think of the white beard, the chariot pulled through the air by a breed of animal which doesn't ordinarily fly, the prayers (requests for gifts) which are annually mailed to him and which so baffle the Post Office, the specially-garbed priests in all the department stories. And don't gods reflect their creators' society? The Greeks had a huntress goddess, and gods of agriculture and war and love. What else would we have but a god of giving, of merchandising, and of consumption?

  Donald E. Westlake

  Prayer, War, Animal

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• One of the things I had a hard time getting used to when I came to California in '78 was Santa Claus in shorts.

  Dennis Franz

  Hard Times, California, Santa

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• Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies!

  Francis Pharcellus Church

  Christmas, Believe, Santa

  Francis Pharcellus Church (2009). “Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa”, p.15, Delacorte Press

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• The world and the universe are far more wonderful if there's not a puppet master.

  Dave Matthews

  World, Puppets, Wonderful

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• Everyone thinks of God as a man - you can't help it - Santa Claus was a man, therefore God has to be a man.

  Patti Smith

  Men, Thinking, Santa

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• Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

  H. L. Mencken

  Dream, Heaven, Democracy

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.412, Knopf

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• That's the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Funny, Christmas, People

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• What's in that pipe that he's smoking?

  Arlo Guthrie

  Funny Christmas, Humorous, Smoking

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• Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus. It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.

  Francis Pharcellus Church

  Christmas, Virginia, Should Have

  "Is There a Santa Claus?". The New York Sun, September 21, 1897.

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• Santa Claus is anyone who loves another and seeks to make them happy; who gives himself by thought or word or deed in every gift that he bestows; who shares his joys with those who are sad; whose hand is never closed against the needy; whose arm is ever outstretched to aid the week; whose sympathy is quick and genuine in time of trouble; who recognizes a comrade and brother in every man he meets upon life's common road; who lives his life throughout the entire year in the Christmas spirit.

  Edwin Osgood Grover

  Brother, Men, Hands

  "The Book of Santa Claus". Book by Vicky Howard, p. 8, 2005.

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• More than Santa Claus, your sister knows when you've been bad and good.

  Linda Sunshine

  Funny, Sister, Sibling

  Linda Sunshine (2012). “Mom Loves Me Best: (And Other Lies You Told Your Sister)”, p.25, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist.

  Francis Pharcellus Church

  Christmas, Virginia, Generosity

  "Is There a Santa Claus" (editorial), Sun (N.Y.), 21 Sept. 1897

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• Yes Virginia, There is a Santa Claus.

  Francis Pharcellus Church

  Christmas, Virginia, Santa

  "Is There a Santa Claus" (editorial), Sun (N.Y.), 21 Sept. 1897

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• Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.

  Richard Lamm

  Funny, Christmas, Xmas

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• Whenever you give someone a present or sing a holiday song, you're helping Santa Claus. To me, that's what Christmas is all about. Helping Santa Claus!

  Louis Sachar

  Song, Holiday, Giving

  Louis Sachar (2010). “Wayside School Gets A Little Stranger”, p.39, A&C Black

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• There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.

  Erma Bombeck

  Christmas, Spiritual, Morning

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist”, p.260, Open Road Media

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• In a country of children where the option is Santa Claus or work, what wins?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Children, Winning

  "Rush Limbaugh On Obama’s Win: ‘I Went To Bed Last Night Thinking We’d Lost The Country’". www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2012.

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• A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.

  Garrison Keillor

  Love, Funny, Christmas

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.

  Jay Leno

  Funny, Christmas, Wise

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.

  Samuel Butler

  Santa

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• A cynic is just a man who found out when he was ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset.

  James Gould Cozzens

  Funny, Men, Upset

  James Gould Cozzens, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1978). “Just representations: a James Gould Cozzens reader”, Southern Illinois Univ Pr

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