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Christmas with Mary Engelbreit: The Best Christmas Ever

This book features a delightful array of Mary Engelbreit's iconic artwork, accompanied by heartwarming tales that capture the essence of the holiday season. It is a compilation of her best-loved Christmas-themed designs and narratives, offering readers a joyful and nostalgic experience. more

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Mary Engelbreit
Mary Engelbreit

Mary Engelbreit, born on June 5, 1952, is a renowned American artist known for her warm and humorous style. Her works, which blend cartoon and hand-drawn elements, are beloved by the public. more

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“We have usurped many of the powers we once ascribed to God. Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life or death of the whole world — of all living things. The danger and the glory and the choice rest finally in man. The test of his perfectibility is at hand. Having taken Godlike power, we must seek in ourselves for the responsibility and the wisdom we once prayed some deity might have.”

“No one knows how greatness comes to a man. It may lie in his blackness, sleeping, or it may lance into him like those driven fiery particles from outer space. These things, however, are known about greatness: need gives it life and puts it in action; it never comes without pain; it leaves a man changed, chastened, and exalted at the same time--he can never return to simplicity.”

“What good men most biologists are, the tenors of the scientific world - temperamental, moody, lecherous, loud-laughing, and healthy. Your true biologist will sing you a song as loud and off-key as will a blacksmith, for he knows that morals are too often diagnostic of prostatitis and stomach ulcers. Sometimes he may proliferate a little too much in all directions, but he is as easy to kill as any other organism, and meanwhile he is very good company, and at least he does not confuse a low hormone productivity with moral ethics.”