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We don’t have to relive the sad and bad memories of Christmas Past. We can create new Christmas memories in the present for the future.


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ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. Wh...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibili...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it ...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idea...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.
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