One of life's gifts is that each of us, no matter how tired and downtrodden, finds reasons for thankfulness: for the crops carried in from the fields and the grapes from the vineyard.

Tolerate, change, or be grateful.

Thanksgiving comes to us out of the prehistoric dimness, universal to all ages and all faiths. At whatever straws we must grasp, there is always a time for gratitude and new beginnings.

Oh wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, And foolish notion

There were no gifts. Everything is properly accounted for. I provided testimony and evidence to the committee, ... This was all stuff that was previously known.

They wanted to give them to us, but a state agency can't accept gifts.