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• ...this initiation ceremony, known as 'signing the Official Secrets Act', has no legal force; everyone is bound by the Act whether they sign the form or not.

  Clive Ponting

  Secret, Force, Form

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• A methodology's weight is a product of its size and ceremony.

  Jim Highsmith

  Weight, Size, Methodology

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• For as long as we can trace back human life, there's always been some sort of music - ceremonies, rituals. It's part of the human makeup.

  Ingrid Michaelson

  Makeup, Long, Human Life

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't want a Jennifer Lopez wedding or anything like that. A commitment ceremony would be a nice thing to do.

  Elton John

  Nice, Commitment, Would Be

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• Coronation: The ceremony of investing a sovereign with the outward and visible signs of his divine right to be blown skyhigh with a dynamite bomb.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Divine Right, Bombs, Investing

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.36, 谷月社

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• I do love the ceremony of putting on a record but I don't have space for a vinyl collection.

  Annie E. Clark

  Space, Records, Vinyl

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Ayahuasca is a brew that's made from the vine, which is the hallucinogenic element. And then there's also this leaf from a bush. And the vine is supposed to be the masculine and the bush is supposed to be the feminine, and this female shaman did a tea drinking ceremony with us, where we drank Wyoosa. And the intention was to go and find pieces of your soul that were missing and bring them back to your body so you could live more fully with yourself and it's called soul retrieval.

  Larkin Grimm

  Drinking, Ayahuasca, Missing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If you can stand on stage and perform a record, you should be able to stand on stage and captivate the audience without the rhyme. You should be a master of ceremonies.

  Torae

  Records, Able, Should

  Source: respect-mag.com

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• I think Latin American cultures are really rich and fascinating. I like the pomp and circumstance of some of their rituals and ceremonies.

  Bitsie Tulloch

  Latin, Thinking, Culture

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• When you watch a tea ceremony, every single movement, every single gesture is very calculated. It's very precise, and it's all protocol. It's all a part of the system. And it's almost like they've sacrificed every single thing to make that perfect. It's like their craft.

  Apolo Ohno

  Perfect, Tea, Watches

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Wabi means spare, impoverished; simple and functional. It connotes a transcendence of fad and fashion. The spirit of wabi imbues all the Zen arts, from calligraphy to karate, from the tea ceremony to Zen archery.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Fashion, Art, Mean

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• Ceremonies are no aid to blessedness.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Aids, Blessedness

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• Ceremonies are important. But our gratitude has to be more than visits to the troops, and once-a-year Memorial Day ceremonies. We honor the dead best by treating the living well.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Inspiring, Memorial Day, Gratitude

  "Honor Sacrifice by Supporting Vets" by Jennifer M. Granholm, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 26, 2012.

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• Like most people - unless they're very practised at it or have no warm blood at all in their veins - I feel a little apprehensive about the red carpet. It's always a bit bewildering when people are taking pictures and asking questions before the ceremony.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Asking Questions, Blood, People

  "'My mother is very happy about it'". Interview with Harriet Lane, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2008.

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• Be assured that Christianity is something more than forms and creeds and ceremonies: there is life, and power, and reality, in our holy faith.

  George Muller

  Reality, Christianity, Holy

  "A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller, Vol. 2, part 4". Book by George Müller, 1855.

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• Being a pop fan is a lot like Catholic devotion - lots of ritual, lots of ceremony... We touch the icon to enter the sacred space, genuflecting to reliquaries and ostentatoria that make something splendid of our most secret desires and agonies.

  Rob Sheffield

  Agony, Icons, Space

  Rob Sheffield (2010). “Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut”, p.118, Penguin

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• Listening to Chris Moyles on Radio 1 is the most miserable thing any human being can do, but attending awards ceremonies isn't far behind.

  Arthur Smith

  Awards, Listening, Radio

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• An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say your rap, you can rock the party.

  Ice T

  Party, Rap, Rocks

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• Singing at the Opening Ceremonies of the Sydney Olympics in 2000 was amazing and, probably the highlight of this decade is the opening of the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Centre in my hometown of Melbourne, Australia.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Cancer, Australia, Opening Ceremony

  Source: www.mlive.com

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• From a Christian perspective, the answer to all of that is not power, as it is in the modern perspective. It's love. It's self-sacrifice. That's what love is all about. The marriage ceremony says it very well: sacrifice is difficult, but love can make it a joy.

  Francis George

  Christian, Sacrifice, Love Is

  Source: www.realclearreligion.org

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• We're trying to learn from [Olympic] Beijing, which could be very intimidating. We've learned to expect it's power, it majesty and that it completes a cycle of certain types of shows... I don't think any nation could do anything on that scale. We haven't got that money, and I don't think anybody would have the appetite for that kind of expenditure and that kind of control, so we're going to try and do something a bit more intimate and try and start again... start a new cycle for these kind of ceremonies.

  Danny Boyle

  Thinking, Trying, Majesty

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The most important thing about Olympics, of course, is the games and not the opening ceremony. It's weird the way it gets inverted sometimes.

  Danny Boyle

  Opening Ceremony, Games, Important

  "127 Hours - Danny Boyle interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Songwriting requires some sort of ceremony to even get the process started, and it can be somewhat arbitrary.

  Andrew Bird

  Arbitrary, Process, Songwriting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• A wedding was a strange ceremony, she thought, with all those formal words, those solemn vows made by one to another; whereas the real question that should be put to the two people involved was a very simple one. Are you happy with each other? was the only question that should be asked; to which they both should reply, preferably in unison, Yes.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Wedding, Real, Simple

  Alexander McCall Smith (2011). “The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party”, p.127, Hachette UK

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• At 10 minutes to seven on a dark, cool evening in Mexico City in 1968, John Stephen Akwari of Tanzania painfully hobbled into the Olympic Stadium-the last man to finish the marathon. The winner had already been crowned, and the victory ceremony was long finished. So the stadium was almost empty and Akwari - alone, his leg bloody and bandaged - struggled to circle the track to the finish line. When asked why he had continued the grueling struggle, the young man from Tanzania answered softly: My country did not send me 9,000 miles to start the race. They sent me 9,000 miles to finish the race.

  Walter Inglis Anderson

  Country, Struggle, Dark

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