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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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• The real Santa Claus is at the mall.

  Daniel Handler

  Christmas, Real, Malls

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• Santa is having a tough time this year. Last year he deducted eight billion for gifts, and the IRS wants an itemized list

  Milton Berle

  Christmas, Years, Eight

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• The Santa myth is one of the most effective means ever devised for intimidating children, eroding their self- esteem, twisting their behavior, warping their values, and slowing their development of critical thinking skills.

  Tom Flynn

  Children, Self Esteem, Mean

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• Once you stop believing in Santa Claus, the whole world just goes downhill.

  Tom Clancy

  Believe, World, Whole

  Tom Clancy (1994). “Three Complete Novels”, Putnam Adult

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• Growing up, Santa Claus would cover the presents with a white blanket, so when we'd wake up Christmas morning, we had to wait for my dad to do the big reveal of all the presents Santa brought.

  Martina McBride

  Morning, Growing Up, Dad

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• I called my wife up on the cell phone and said baby you aint gonna believe this, i go, we just hit a deer with the airplane. and there was a silence on the other end of the line followed by.. OH MY GOD.! were you on the ground? I said nope, santa was makin one last run.

  Bill Engvall

  Funny, Running, Baby

  FaceBook post by Bill Engvall from Jan 15, 2013

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• Kids believe in Santa; adults believe in childhood.

  Cate Kennedy

  Believe, Kids, Childhood

  Cate Kennedy (2008). “Dark Roots: Stories”, p.18, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The Santa Claus principle liquidates itself.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Principles, Santa Claus

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• It's called the Santa Claus effect; the holiday period is traditionally a strong cycle.

  Andrew Barrett

  Strong, Holiday, Periods

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• Maybe Santa Claus is real. Here's the problem: reality.

  David Remnick

  Real, Problem, Reality

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• When you think about it, Alaska is also near the North Pole, so she must also be friends with Santa.

  Jon Stewart

  Thinking, Alaska, North Pole

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• We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus; but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level.

  Karen Armstrong

  Ideas, Levels, Mature

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• Santa is our culture's only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It's a fact that most of the true believers are under eight years old, and that's a pity.

  Chris Van Allsburg

  Christmas, Eight, Years

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• On a busy day twenty-two thousand people come to visit Santa, and I was told that it is an elf's lot to remain merry in the face of torment and adversity. I promised to keep that in mind.

  David Sedaris

  Christmas, Adversity, Two

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• As a young child I had Santa and Jesus all mixed up. I could identify Coke or Pepsi with just one sip, but I could not tell you for sure why they strapped Santa to a cross. Had he missed a house? Had a good little girl somewhere in the world not received the doll he'd promised her, making the father angry?

  Augusten Burroughs

  Girl, Jesus, Children

  Augusten Burroughs (2011). “You Better Not Cry: True Stories for Christmas”, p.13, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.

  Al Smith

  Christmas, Sea, Empty

  Quoted in New Outlook, Dec. 1933

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• There is something about Christmas that requires a rug rat. Little kids make Christmas fun. I wonder if could rent one for the holidays. When I was tiny we would by a real tree and stay up late drinking hot chocolate and finding just the right place for the special decorations. It seems like my parents gave up the magic when I figured out the Santa lie. Maybe I shouldn't have told them I knew where the presents really came from. It broke their hearts.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Christmas, Fun, Real

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• Dear Santa Claus, just a last note before you take off. I hope you have a nice trip. Don't forget to fasten your seat belt.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Nice, Lasts, Forget

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• If I ever saw magic on television I would say: 'I want that. That's what I want from Santa Claus'. So the cupboard in my bedroom was full of boxes of magic tricks, cups and balls, cards and foam rabbits, all sorts of stuff.

  Colin Morgan

  Magic, Saws, Cups

  "Merlin actor Colin Morgan is magic". www.mirror.co.uk. September 03, 2008.

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• I stand with the Santa Barbara News-Press. How about you?

  Michelle Malkin

  Santa Barbara, News, Notable

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• A man of fifty looks as old as Santa Claus to a girl of twenty.

  William Feather

  Girl, Men, Twenties

  William Feather (1949). “The Business of Life”

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• When I was a kid out here in L.A., I was homeless, I didn't have any money and I was living in my car. I wasn't averse to going down to Santa Monica Boulevard and letting a guy buy me a sandwich. Know what I mean?

  Thomas Jane

  Mean, Kids, Gay

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• Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Santa Barbara, Paradise, May

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.98, Verso

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• Unwisely, Santa offered a teddy bear to James, unaware he had been mauled by a grizzly earlier this year.

  Tim Burton

  Years, Bears, Teddy Bear

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