I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old, familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet
The words repeat
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Merry Christmas, and Peace on Earth!
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Instead of being a time of unusual behavior, Christmas is perhaps the only time in the year when people can obey their natural impulses and express their true sentiments without feeling self-conscious and, perhaps, foolish. Christmas, in short, is about the only chance a man has to be himself.
~Francis C. Farley
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I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them [...]
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If this doesn’t get me in the Christmas spirit, I don’t know what will. I love the “peace on earth, goodwill to men” motif.
From a washingtonpost.com article on the song, “Bing and Bowie: An Odd Story of Holiday Harmony”:
The result was an epic, and epically bizarre, recording in which David Bowie, the androgynous [...]
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