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• God alone created marriage. Adam slept through the entire ceremony. Eve came in late. It seems to me men are still sleeping through marriage, and women are still coming to their senses a little too late. God alone performed that ceremony, and He alone can hold it together.

  Beth Moore

  Sleep, Men, Together

  Beth Moore (2004). “Things Pondered: From the Heart of a Lesser Woman”, p.10, B&H Publishing Group

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• Politeness requires this thing; decorum that; ceremony has its forms, and fashion its laws, and these must always follow, never the promptings of our own nature.

  Henri Rousseau

  Fashion, Law, Courtesy

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• I care not for the theoretical symmetry and impregnable logic of your moral code, I care not for the hoary respectability and traditional mysticisms of your theological institutions, I care not for the beauty and solemnity of your rituals and religious ceremonies, I care not even for the reasonableness and unimpeachable fairness of your social ethics,--if it does not turn out better, nobler, truer, men and women,--if it does not add to the world's stock of valuable souls,--if it does not give us a sounder, healthier, more reliable product from this great factory of men--I will have none of it.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Religious, Men, Giving

  Anna Julia Cooper, Charles C. Lemert, Esme Bhan (1998). “The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters”, p.187, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Surrounded and absorbed, we tread like Etruscans on the edge of useless law; we pray to the giver of prayer, we give the cane whistle in ceremony, we swing the heavy silver chain of incense burners. Migration makes new citizens of Rome.

  Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

  Prayer, Swings, Rome

  Elizabeth Cook-Lynn (1983). “Seek the House of Relatives”

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• One of the delights of the new age is that it's a turning of consciousness to give us permission to look beyond appearances. But there are traps that come with it. It's brave to throw off the old altars and churches and ceremonies that kept us from discovery, it's not so brave to replace them with chants and rituals and new priests who are retreads of the old.

  Richard Bach

  Discovery, Giving, Brave

  Interview with Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

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• Designers must educate the public that design is about strategy, not decoration. However, such attempts are repeatedly undermined by a design world hooked on competitions and awards ceremonies that celebrate creativity instead of strategy results and sustainability.

  David Berman

  Creativity, Awards, Design

  David B. Berman (2008). “Do Good Design: How Design Can Change Our World”, p.140, Peachpit Press

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• Whenever you're in a natural system and you're making sound, you are putting yourself at risk. As you go up the evolutionary ladder, from insects to frogs to birds and on up into mammals, the higher intelligence recognizes that when you vocalize, you put yourself at risk. So mammals generally vocalize or make noise much more rarely than, let's say, insects or frogs. And when they do, and put themselves at risk, it has to be worth the risk, and have true meaning, such as signaling during a hunting party, calling in prey, some religious or spiritual ceremony, something like that.

  Gordon Hempton

  Spiritual, Religious, Party

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• If a woman knows a man to be a libertine, yet will, without scruple, give him her company, he will think half the ceremony between them is over; and will probably only want an opportunity to make her repent of her confidence in him.

  Samuel Richardson

  Opportunity, Men, Thinking

  Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.4

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• The natives of British Columbia live largely upon the fish which abound in their seas and rivers. If the fish do not come in due season, and the Indians are hungry, A Nootka wizard will make an image of a swimming fish and put it into the water in the direction from which the fish generally appear. This ceremony, accompanied by a prayer to the fish to come, will cause them to arrive at once.

  James G. Frazer

  Prayer, Swimming, Sea

  "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.

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• Ritual and ceremony in their due times kept the world under the sky and the stars in their courses. It was astonishing what ritual and ceremony could do.

  Terry Pratchett

  Stars, Sky, World

  "Pyramids" by Terry Pratchett, Harper, (p. 77), January 200.

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• The greatest burden in the world is superstition, not only of ceremonies in the church, but of imaginary and scarecrow sins at home.

  John Milton

  Home, Church, World

  John Milton (2016). “Areopagitica and Other Prose Works”, p.59, Courier Dover Publications

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• I am unable to distinguish clearly between your religious ceremonies and apparently identical behavior at the sporting and cultural functions you have transmitted to me.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Religious, Behavior, Function

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “The Fountains of Paradise”, p.97, RosettaBooks

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• The first consideration is that the ceremonies of the Mosaic Law were abrogated by the coming of Christ and that they can no longer be observed without sin after the promulgation of the Gospel.

  Pope Benedict XIV

  Law, Mosaics, Firsts

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• When the Ngdanga tribe of West Africa hold their moon love ceremonies, the men of the tribe bang their heads on sacred trees until they get a nose bleed, which usually cures them of that.

  Mike Harding

  Humorous, Moon, Men

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• The combination of drugs, homosexuality, some good prose recited on screen. . . . In the sweat lodge ceremony we went through, did you get any glimpse of the Ugly Spirit, what that was historically or biographically?

  Allen Ginsberg

  Sweat, Drug, Glimpse

  Source: sensitiveskinmagazine.com

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• Like a christening, a wedding, a graduation ceremony, a holy war, a revolutioneven?a fireworksdisplay, agaudy promise of what life ought to be, not life itself.

  Alistair Cooke

  War, Promise, Holy

  1979 Of elections. The Americans.

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• I like to dress up and look nice. I'm not quite at the stage yet financially to do that too often, but it's nice to push the boat out a little bit for award ceremonies and stuff.

  Simon Bird

  Nice, Awards, Dresses

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• Vladimir Putin said the tanks that you see rolling through the streets are just part of the closing ceremonies of the Olympics.

  David Letterman

  Tanks, Rolling, Olympics

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• Howard University holds something called "Heart's Day," an all day ceremony in which a writer is honored. I was the recipient of this honor. It's a wonderful ceremony that Eleanor Traylor chair of English at Howard University organizes for writers. Writers from around the country came to pay tribute to my work. It was very flattering.

  Ishmael Reed

  Country, Heart, Honor

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Politics, Certain, Attempting

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• Their origin is commonly unknown; for the practice often continues when the cause has ceased, and concerning superstitious ceremonies it is in vain to conjecture; for what reason did not dictate, reason cannot explain.

  Samuel Johnson

  Practice, Causes, Reason

  Samuel Johnson (1977). “Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.150, Univ of California Press

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• In Ethiopia, food is often looked at through a strong spiritual lens, stronger than anywhere else I know. It's the focal point of weddings, births and funerals and is a daily ceremony from the preparation of the meal and the washing of hands to the sharing of meals.

  Marcus Samuelsson

  Spiritual, Strong, Hands

  "Everybody’s Talking About Food". Huffington Post Article, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 12, 2010.

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• Аs I've mentioned many times, sitting through graduation ceremonies is one of life's drearier milestones.

  Emily Yoffe

  Milestone

  Source: www.slate.com

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• My ritual it's kind of an involuntary ritual. I lie awake the night before, worrying about award ceremony. Try and think of something to write in case I actually get up there. I write it at the very last minute like either in the car on the way to the ceremony or, you know, in the bathroom before the show starts. It's all of jumbled mess written on a napkin or a piece of toilet paper. That's my good luck ritual. It's just like being in college waiting for the last minute to do everything.

  Tony Shalhoub

  Lying, Writing, Good Luck

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I read nothing. I watch nothing. I haven't even seen myself in the opening ceremonies of the Vancouver Olympics. I don't look back. I don't allow myself to be influenced by people who don't know me. I'm incredibly thin-skinned. When you wander through this life as an exposed nerve, you have to make sure you remain insulated to a certain extent.

  Measha Brueggergosman

  People, Wander, Know Me

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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