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“Turkey: A large bird whose flesh, when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude.”

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Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

“Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday...The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production.”

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Author:Ayn Rand

“This is the holy reasoning of love; it draws no license from grace, but rather feels the strong constraints of gratitude leading it to holiness.”

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Book:Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 19: 1873

Source: Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 19: 1873

“Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving.”

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Book:The essays of Elia. [Followed by] The last essays of Elia

Source: The essays of Elia. [Followed by] The last essays of Elia

“Something I didn't even know was on my bucket list has been achieved. I have cooked Thanksgiving dinner with Martha Stewart. I vow to follow the gospel of her teachings and do my very best in the remarkably less glamorous kitchen of my own home... without the luxury of magically appearing prep bowls filled by a staff of sous chefs.”

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Author:Jesse Tyler Ferguson

“Heavenly Father, thank You for Your peace that rules my heart. I choose Your peace today and thank You for guiding my every step. I choose to be thankful today and bless You for Your faithfulness. In Jesus Name. Amen.”

“Now thank we all our God, With hearts and hands and voices; Who wondrous things hath done, In whom this world rejoices. Who, from our mother's arms, Hath led us on our way, With countless gifts of love, And still is ours today.”

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Author:Martin Rinkart

“The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.”

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Author:Mitchell Burgess

“There is one day that is ours. There is one day when all we Americans who are not self-made go back to the old home to eat saleratus biscuits and marvel how much nearer to the porch the old pump looks than it used to. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.”

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Book:O. Henry

Source: O. Henry

“Every day is a day to be thankful. Life's abundance has no limit, and gratitude is what keeps that abundance flowing. In every circumstance there is something for which to be thankful. Even when there seems to be nothing else, there is hope.”

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Author:Ralph Marston

“We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown.”

Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

“Before you go out into the world, wash your face in the clear crystal of praise. Bury each yesterday in the fine linen and spices of thankfulness.”

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Book:Collected Works Vol. 2

Source: Collected Works Vol. 2

“It is therefore recommended... to set apart Thursday the eighteenth day of December next, for solemn thanksgiving and praise, that with one heart and one voice the good people may express the grateful feelings of their hearts and consecrate themselves to the service of their divine benefactor.”

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Author:Samuel Adams

“Our Creator shall continue to dwell above the sky, and that is where those on earth will end their thanksgiving.”

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Author:Seneca the Younger

“I originate from a family where sauce is viewed as a refreshment.”

Thanksgiving Sauce Refreshments

Author:Erma Bombeck

“The Thanksgiving tradition is, we gorge. Hey, what about at Thanksgiving we simply consume a considerable measure? However we do that consistently! Goodness. Imagine a scenario where we consume a ton with individuals who pester the heck out of us.”

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Author:Jim Gaffigan

“The very fact that a man is thankful implies someone to be thankful to.”

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Author:John Baillie

“You know that just before that first Thanksgiving dinner there was one wise, old Native American woman saying, Don't feed them. If you feed them, they'll never leave.”

“Thanksgiving, when the Indians said, "Well, this has been fun, but we know you have a long voyage back to England".”

“At Thanksgiving, my mom always makes too much food, especially one item, like 700 or 800 pounds of sweet potatoes. She's got to push it during the meal. "Did you get some sweet potatoes? There's sweet potatoes. They're hot. There's more in the oven, some more in the garage. The rest are at the Johnson's."”

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Author:Louie Anderson

“It's a thanksgiving to God. It's something I have wanted to do for a long time, but the record company wasn't ready for it. So I did it myself.”

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Author:Aaron Neville

“I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens . . . to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.”

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Author:Abraham Lincoln

“Americans are gluttons. We shop with forklifts. We have a holiday where we stuff food into other food. Our strippers wrestle in Jell-O, where other countries have to use mud.”

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Author:Bill Maher

“May your stuffing be tasty May your turkey plump, May your potatoes and gravy Have nary a lump. May your yams be delicious And your pies take the prize, And may your Thanksgiving dinner Stay off your thighs!”

“For flowers that bloom about our feet; For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet; For song of bird, and hum of bee; For all things fair we hear or see, Father in heaven, we thank Thee!”

“Let's be grateful for what we have. Let's be mindful of those who have less. Let's appreciate those who hold a special place in our lives, and make sure they know it. And let's think about those who can't spend the holiday with their loved ones - especially the members of our military serving overseas.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“Thanksgiving. It proved you had survived another year with its wars, inflation, unemployment, smog, presidents. It was a grand neurotic gathering of clans: loud drunks, grandmothers, sisters, aunts, screaming children, would-be suicides. And don't forget indigestion. I wasn't different from anyone else: There sat the 18-pound bird on my sink, dead, plucked, totally disemboweled. Iris would roast it for me.”

“There are things you do because they feel right and they may make no sense and they may make no money and it may be the real reason we are here: to love each other and to eat each other's cooking and say it was good.”

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Author:Brian Andreas

“Dining with one's friends and beloved family is certainly one of life's primal and most innocent delights, one that is both soul-satisfying and eternal.”

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Author:Julia Child

“'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say.”

“You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity.”

“I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.”

“One of my most memorable Thanksgiving memories was probably the first year that me and my two brothers decided to start our annual eating contest. We ate throughout the whole day. We started that morning and weighed ourselves, and at the very end of the night, we weighed ourselves out. And all three of us equally gained five pounds.”

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Author:Charles Kelley

“The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust — not only for all the gifts that I receive from God, but gratitude for all the suffering. Because in that purifying experience, suffering has often been the shortest path to intimacy with God.”

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Author:Brennan Manning

“Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.”

Source: Garfield Eats His Heart Out: His 6th Book

“For what I give, not what I take, For battle, not for victory, My prayer of thanks I make.”

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Author:Odell Shepard

“You can't get unless you give. And you have to give without wanting to get.”

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Author:Theodore White

“Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road.”

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Author:John Henry Jowett

“For Thanksgiving we have to make a Tofurkey! It doesn't sound right! It's gonna be jiggly and weird.”

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Author:Jessica Simpson

“Lord, 'tis Thy plenty-dropping hand That soils my land, And giv'st me for my bushel sowne Twice ten for one. All this, and better, Thou dost send Me, to this end, That I should render, for my part, A thankful heart.”

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Book:The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: edited by Alfred Pollard, with a pref. by A.C. Swinburne

Source: The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: edited by Alfred Pollard, with a pref. by A.C. Swinburne

“I am grateful for each and every food bank that helps families in need. Now, more than ever, hunger is a crisis in America, and yet it is not spoken enough and people have yet to give enough to help those in need. Local food banks help fill this need but they need our help, our support, and most importantly, our dollars. No one should ever go hungry.”

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Author:Marlee Matlin

“What am I grateful for? Aside from my own great life, you mean? I'm just grateful that my wife, and daughter, and dogs are all healthy.”

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Author:Richard Belzer

“[when asked about what he was most thankful about]: Being alive. After heart surgery, you dig that part. Breath, family and friends are just amazing. Just to have a second shot is pretty great!”

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Author:Robin Williams

“Giving thanks to God for both His temporal and spiritual blessings in our lives is not just a nice thing to do - it is the moral will of God. Failure to give Him the thanks due Him is sin.”

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Book:Respectable Sins: Confronting the Sins We Tolerate

Source: Respectable Sins: Confronting the Sins We Tolerate

“Therefore, I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence.”

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Author:Paul the Apostle

“Measured by the standards of men of their time, [the Pilgrims] were the humble of the earth. Measured by later accomplishments, they were the mighty. In appearance weak and persecuted they came -- rejected, despised -- an insignificant band; in reality strong and independent, a mighty host of whom the world was not worthy destined to free mankind.”

Source: The Price of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses

“Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”

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Book:Sketches by Boz

Source: Sketches by Boz

“I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.”

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Author:Vin Diesel

“My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.”

“Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.”

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Author:Oprah Winfrey

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