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1. A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues. ~Cicero
2. Ah! on Thanksgiving day/ When the care-wearied man seeks his mother once more, / And the worn matron smiles where the girl smiled before. / What moistens the lips and what brightens the eye? / What calls back the past, like the rich pumpkin pie? ~John Greenleaf Whittier
3. All that we behold is full of blessings. ~William Wordsworth
4. An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day. ~Irv Kupcinet
5. And though I ebb in worth, I’ll flow in thanks. ~John Taylor
6. As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. ~John Fitzgerald Kennedy
7. As we pause to thank Him for the blessings of the past year, we must not forget to thank Him for the lessons we have learned through our difficult times. We are not to be thankful for just the pleasant, easy things, but ALL things. ~Millie Stamm
8. But see, in our open clearings, how golden the melons lie; / Enrich them with sweets and spices, and give us the pumpkin-pie! ~Margaret Junkin Preston
9. But whether we have less or more, / Always thank we God therefor. ~Author Unknown
10. Coexistence: what the farmer does with the turkey – until Thanksgiving. ~Mike Connolly
11. Dear Lord; we beg but one boon more: / Peace in the hearts of all men living, / peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving. ~Joseph Auslander
12. Do not fancy, as too many do, that thou canst praise God by singing hymns to Him in church once a week, and disobeying Him all the week long. He asks of thee works as well as words; and more, he asks of thee works first and words after. ~Charles Kingsley
13. Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. ~William Arthur Ward
14. For a Christian thanksgiving, we must give thanks. ~Unknown
15. For each new morning with its light, / For rest and shelter of the night, / For health and food, for love and friends, /For everything Thy goodness sends. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
16. For flowers that bloom about our feet; / For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet; / For song of bird, and hum of bee; / For all things fair we hear or see, / Father in heaven, we thank Thee! ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
17. For hearts that are kindly, with virtue and peace, and not seeking blindly a hoard to increase; for those who are grieving o’er life’s sordid plan; for souls still believing in heaven and man; for homes that are lowly with love at the board; for things that are holy, I thank thee, O Lord! ~Walt Mason
18. For what I give, not what I take, / For battle, not for victory, / My prayer of thanks I make. ~Odell Shepard
19. For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread. The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet…. Shall we think of the day as a chance to come nearer to our Host, and to find out something of Him who has fed us so long? ~Rebecca Harding Davis
20. Give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way. ~Native American Saying
21. Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving. ~Charles Lamb
22. God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say ‘thank you?’ ~William A. Ward
23. God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart. ~Izaak Walton
24. 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. ~Irving Berlin
25. Grace isn’t a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It’s a way to live. ~Jacqueline Winspear
26. Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies. ~Charles E. Jefferson
27. Gratitude is the least of the virtues, but ingratitude is the worst of vices. ~Thomas Fuller
28. Gratitude is the sign of noble souls. ~Aesop
29. Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow. ~Melody Beattie
30. Happy We-Stole-Your-Land-and-Killed-Your-People Day! ~Thanksgiving toast, from the movie Sweet November
31. He who receives a good turn should never forget it; he who does one should never remember it. ~Charron
32. He who thanks but with the lips / Thanks but in part; / The full, the true Thanksgiving / Comes from the heart. ~J.A. Shedd
33. Heap high the board with plenteous cheer and gather to the feast, / And toast the sturdy Pilgrim band whose courage never ceased. ~Alice W. Brotherton
34. Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don’t unravel. ~Author Unknown
35. How wonderful it would be if we could help our children and grandchildren to learn thanksgiving at an early age. Thanksgiving opens the doors. It changes a child’s personality, thankful children want to give, they radiate happiness, they draw people. ~Sir John Templeton
36. I hate ingratitude more in man than lying, vainness, drunkenness or any taint of vice, whose strong corruption inhibits our frail blood. ~William Shakespeare
37. I have strong doubts that the first Thanksgiving even remotely resembled the ‘history’ I was told in second grade. But considering that (when it comes to holidays) mainstream America’s traditions tend to be over-eating, shopping, or getting drunk, I suppose it’s a miracle that the concept of giving thanks even surfaces at all. ~Ellen Orleans
38. I love Thanksgiving turkey. It’s the only time in Los Angeles that you see natural breasts. ~Arnold Schwarzenegger
39. If a fellow isn’t thankful for what he’s got, he isn’t likely to be thankful for what he’s going to get. ~Frank A. Clark
40. If I have enjoyed the hospitality of the Host of this universe, Who daily spreads a table in my sight, surely I cannot do less than acknowledge my dependence. ~G.A. Johnston Ross
41. If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, thank you, that would suffice. ~Meister Eckhart
42. If we meet someone who owes us thanks, we right away remember that. But how often do we meet someone to whom we owe thanks without remembering that? ~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
43. If you count all your assets, you always show a profit. ~Robert Quillen
44. In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich. ~Dietrich Bonhoeffer
45. 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. ~Alistair Cooke
46. It is literally true, as the thankless say, that they have nothing to be thankful for. He who sits by the fire, thankless for the fire, is just as if he had no fire. Nothing is possessed save in appreciation, of which thankfulness is the indispensable ingredient. But a thankful heart hath a continual feast. ~W.J. Cameron
47. 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. ~Theodore Roosevelt
48. Life without thankfulness is devoid of love and passion. Hope without thankfulness is lacking in fine perception. Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude. Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road. ~John Henry Jowett
49. Lord, ’tis Thy plenty-dropping hand / That soils my land, / And giv’st me for my bushel sowne / Twice ten for one. / All this, and better, Thou dost send / Me, to this end, / That I should render, for my part, / A thankful heart. ~Robert Herrick
50. May your stuffing be tasty / May your turkey plump, / May your potatoes and gravy Have nary a lump. / May your yams be delicious / And your pies take the prize, / And may your Thanksgiving dinner / Stay off your thighs! ~Author Unknown

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1. Heck is where people go who don’t believe in gosh. ~Anonymous
2. He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit. ~Anonymous
3. You know there is a problem with the education system when you realize that out of the 3 Rs (reading, writing, and arithmetic), only one begins with an R. ~Dennis Miller
4. Where’s the “Any” key? ~Homer Simpson
5. If we’re not supposed to eat animals, why are they made of meat? ~Anonymous
6. If it weren’t for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we’d still be eating frozen radio dinners. ~Johnny Carson
7. A dislexic agnostic insomniac lies awake at night wondering if there’s a dog. ~Anonymous
8. Sometimes my mind wanders; other times it leaves completely. ~Anonymous
9. The first time I see a jogger smiling, I’ll consider it. ~Joan Rivers
10. Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the “Titanic” who waved off the dessert cart. ~Erma Louise Bombeck
11. My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said, ‘Mom, they weren’t trying to teach you how to swim. ~Paula Poundstone
12. I saw a large woman wearing a sweatshirt with ‘Guess’ on it. I said, ‘Thyroid problem? ~Arnold Schwarzenegger
13. The town where I grew up has a zip code of E-I-E-I-O. ~Martin Mull
14. Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing. ~Redd Foxx
15. There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don’t. ~Robert Benchley
16. Cheese—milk’s leap toward immortality. ~Clifton Fadiman
17. What if the hokey pokey really is what it’s all about? ~Anonymous
18. Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it. ~Chuck Noll
19. If you make every game a life and death proposition, you’re going to have problems. For one thing, you’ll be dead a lot. ~Dean Smith
20. There is something wrong when you wait in line thirty minutes to get a hamburger that was cooked for ninety seconds an hour ago. ~Lewis Grizzard
21. Inside me lives a skinny woman crying to get out. But I can usually shut her up with cookies. ~Helen Hayes
22. My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being, hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint. ~Erma Bombeck
23. If you can’t be a good example ~then you’ll just have to be a horrible warning. ~Catherine
24. The point of quotations is that one can use another’s words to be insulting. ~Amanda Cross
25. The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. ~Mark Russell
26. I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. ~Anonymous
27. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the manmade sound never equaled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig. ~Alfred Hitchcock
28. Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you. ~Anonymous
29. I was the kid next door’s imaginary friend. ~Emo Phillips
30. The entire economy of the Western world is built on things that cause cancer. ~From the 1985 movie Bliss
31. Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is. ~P. J. O’Rourke
32. There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it. ~Mary Wilson Little  
33. What’s a synonym for Thesaurus? ~Anonymous
34. He who laughs last, thinks slowest. ~Anonymous
35. Veni, Vidi, VISA: I came, I saw, I did a little shopping. ~Anonymous
36. Procrastinate later. ~Anonymous
37. Don’t hate me because I’m beautiful. Hate me because your man thinks so. ~Anonymous
38. I’m going to memorize your name and throw my head away. ~Oscar Levant
39. It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can’t speak for my twin sister. ~Abigail Van Buren
40. Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money. ~Joey Bishop
41. If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend. ~Doug Larson
42. A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion but doesn’t. ~Anonymous
43. If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside. ~Robert X. Cringely
44. If all the world’s a stage, I want to operate the trap door. ~Paul Beatty
45. I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf. ~Robert Bloch
46. If you drink, don’t drive. Don’t even putt. ~Dean Martin
47. Don’t knock the weather. If it didn’t change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn’t start a conversation. ~Kin Hubbard
48. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. ~Lisa Grossman
49. Let not the sands of time get in your lunch. ~National Lampoon
50. Money talks…but all mine ever says is good-bye. ~Anonymous

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Confucius Says:

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Man who run in Front of car get tyred.
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Man who run behind Car get exhausted.
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Man with one Chopstick go hungry.
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Man who scratch butt Should not bite fingernails.
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Man who eat many Prunes get good run for money.
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War not Determine who is right, war determine who is Left.
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Wife who put Husband in doghouse soon find him in Cathouse.
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Man who drive like Hell, bound to get there..
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Man who live in Glass house should change clothes in Basement.
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Man who fish in Other man’s well often catch crabs.
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Crowded elevator Smell different to midget.
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Person who deletes this has no humour!!!
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Now send it to 1 Or more people..Nothing will happen!!!

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Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. ~Thomas Paine

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself. ~Thomas Paine

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave. ~Elmer Davis

The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation. ~Woodrow Wilson

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have. ~Harry Emerson Fosdick

Let freedom never perish in your hands. ~Joseph Addison

You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism. ~Erma Bombeck

Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed – else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

A statistician made a few calculations and discovered that since the birth of our nation more lives had been lost in celebrating independence than in winning it. ~Curtis Billings

Freedom’s natal day is here.
Fire the guns and shout for freedom,
See the flag above unfurled!
Hail the stars and stripes forever,
Dearest flag in all the world.
~Florence A. Jones

This, then, is the state of the union: free and restless, growing and full of hope. So it was in the beginning. So it shall always be, while God is willing, and we are strong enough to keep the faith. ~Lyndon B. Johnson

For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail? ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges. ~John Burroughs, Journal

Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty. ~Louis D. Brandeis

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better. ~Albert Camus

It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you. ~Author unknown, sometimes attributed to M. Grundler

Liberty is the breath of life to nations. ~George Bernard Shaw

America is much more than a geographical fact. It is a political and moral fact – the first community in which men set out in principle to institutionalize freedom, responsible government, and human equality. ~Adlai Stevenson

May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely, than this our own country! ~Daniel Webster

We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for their souls. ~Robert J. McCracken

If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace. ~Hamilton Fish

I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery. ~Author Unknown

I love my freedom. I love my America. ~Jessi Lane Adams

Without freedom, no one really has a name. ~Milton Acorda

Where liberty dwells, there is my country. ~Benjamin Franklin

All we have of freedom, all we use or know -
This our fathers bought for us long and long ago.
~Rudyard Kipling, The Old Issue, 1899

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. ~George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, “Maxims: Liberty and Equality,” 1905

It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism. ~J. Horace McFarland

The winds that blow through the wide sky in these mounts, the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific to the Atlantic – have always blown on free men. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom. ~Simone de Beauvoir

The United States is the only country with a known birthday. ~James G. Blaine

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. ~Thomas Macaulay

Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all!
By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.
~John Dickinson

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. ~William Faulkner

My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy! ~Thomas Jefferson

What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom “to” and freedom “from.” ~Marilyn vos Savant, in Parade

How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy. ~Paul Sweeney

From every mountain side
Let Freedom ring.
~Samuel F. Smith, “America”

We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit. ~Hubert H. Humphrey

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. ~Abraham Lincoln

Freedom is the oxygen of the soul. ~Moshe Dayan

And I’m proud to be an American,
where at least I know I’m free.
And I won’t forget the men who died,
who gave that right to me.
~Lee Greenwood

It is sweet to serve one’s country by deeds, and it is not absurd to serve her by words. ~Sallust

My patriotic heart beats red, white, and blue. ~Author Unknown

Freedom is not enough. ~Lyndon B. Johnson

We are free, truly free, when we don’t need to rent our arms to anybody in order to be able to lift a piece of bread to our mouths. ~Ricardo Flores Magon, speech, 31 May 1914

Freedom is never free. ~Author Unknown

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America. ~William J. Clinton

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A screen shot of Michael Jordan’s Twitter page. He definitely is a fan of his root beer.

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A couple thoughts to meditate on!

Concentrate on this Sentence:

“To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did.” When God takes something from your grasp, He’s not punishing you, but merely opening your hands to receive something better.

Concentrate on this sentence:
“The will of God will never take you where the Grace of God will not protect you.”

There comes a point in your life when you realize:
Who matters,
Who never did,
Who won’t anymore,
And who always will.
So, don’t worry about people from your past,
there’s a reason why they didn’t make it to your future.

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Jefferson in some cases could be called a prophet.

“When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.”
Thomas Jefferson

“The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.”
Thomas Jefferson

“It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.”
Thomas Jefferson

“I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”
Thomas Jefferson

“My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.”
Thomas Jefferson

“No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.”
Thomas Jefferson

“The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.”
Thomas Jefferson

“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”
Thomas Jefferson

“To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.”
Thomas Jefferson

In light of the present financial crisis, it’s interesting to read what Thomas Jefferson said in 1802:
“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.”

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