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Dear ignoramuses, Halloween is not 'a yankee holiday' celebrated only by gigantic toddlers wearing baseball caps back to front and spraying 'automobiles' with eggs. This is ignorance. Halloween is an ancient druidic holiday, one the Celtic peoples have celebrated for millennia. It is the crack between the last golden rays of summer and the dark of winter; the delicately balanced tweak of the year before it is given over entirely to the dark; a time for the souls of the departed to squint, to peek and perhaps to travel through the gap. What could be more thrilling and worthy of celebration than that? It is a time to celebrate sweet bounty, as the harvest is brought in. It is a time of excitement and pleasure for children before the dark sets in. We should all celebrate that. Pinatas on the other hand are heathen monstrosities and have no place in a civilised society. ↗

— Jenny Colgan

#dreams

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#character #force #great #great things #judgment

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#inestimable #possession #value

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#chain #destiny #far #handled #link

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#grinder #hold #monkey #never #organ

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#consider #especially #found #history #i

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#energies #left #new #new world #old

For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#air #armies #expression #fleets #good

Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#always #being #i #i do #learn

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#doubt #easily #either #endured #pain