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• The income tax only taxed the Rockefellers, the Morgans and the Vanderbilts. It was aimed at the top 4 percent, and the top rate then in 1913, was 7 percent. Woodrow Wilson had a big ceremony and said, "I'm delighted to be president at the creation of this popular new tax."

  T.R. Reid

  President, Creation, Taxes

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• China is ruthlessly pragmatic. It supports North Korea for its own selfish interests. And I believe that China no longer considers us an ally. The current president, Xi Jinping, cultivates close relations with South Korea. He has never met with me, the leader of North Korea, something that the leader of China has always done. At the grand celebrations in Beijing two years ago commemorating the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, he placed the president of Russia and the president of South Korea at his side. In North Korea, we pay a lot of attention to ceremonies and what they signal.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Selfish, War, Believe

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The night before the Olympics opening ceremony, my son, who is eight years old, gets very excited and likes to put out a plate of cookies and some milk for Bob Costas.

  David Letterman

  Funny, Son, Night

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• Mitt Romney will travel to London where he will attend the Olympics opening ceremony. Of course it's going ot be weird when they're announcing all the countries, and he's like 'Got a bank account there, got one there, two bank accounts there.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Funny, Country, London Olympics

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• I guess you heard about this; the U.S. Olympic Committee is coming under fire after it was revealed that the uniforms for Team USA to be worn in the opening ceremony were made in China. Turns out they were made by some of the same kids who could beat us in gymnastics. That's the worst part.

  Jay Leno

  Funny, Team, Kids

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• ... over two hundred women, apparently at their own request, were sealed as wives to Joseph Smith after his death in special temple ceremonies. Moreover, a great many distinguished women in history, including several Catholic saints, were also sealed to Joseph Smith in Utah. I saw these astonishing lists in the Latter-day Saint Genealogical Archives in Salt Lake City in 1944.

  Fawn M. Brodie

  Utah, Cities, Two

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• The Presidents Woodruff and Smith both said they were willing for such a ceremony to occur, if done in Mexico, and Pres. Woodruff promised the Lord's blessing to follow such an act.

  Abraham H. Cannon

  Blessing, President, Mexico

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• I think it is wrong for the federal government to force Christian individuals, businesses, pastors, churches to participate in wedding ceremonies that violate our sincerely held religious beliefs. We have to stand up and fight for religious liberty. That's where this fight is going.

  Bobby Jindal

  Christian, Religious, Fighting

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. June 28, 2015.

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• I remember, particularly, a trip to Bosnia where the welcoming ceremony had to be moved inside because of sniper fire.

  Hillary Clinton

  Fire, Bosnia, Snipers

  "Can Clinton Catch Obama?; Fit Nation; Ricin Found in a Las Vegas Motel Room, Man Hospitalized". "CNN Newsroom", edition.cnn.com. February 29, 2008.

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• What is any respectable girl brought up to do but to catch some rich man's fancy and get the benefit of his money by marrying him?--as if a marriage ceremony could make any difference in the right or wrong of the thing!

  George Bernard Shaw

  Marriage, Girl, Sex

  George Bernard Shaw (2010). “Mrs. Warren's Profession”, p.30, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility.

  E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

  Friendship, Civility, Poor Richard

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• All rituals are paradoxical and dangerous enterprises, the traditional and improvised, the sacred and the secular. Paradoxical because rituals are conspicuously artificial and theatrical, yet designed to suggest the inevitability and absolute truth of their messages. Dangerous because when we are not convinced by a ritual we may become aware of ourselves as having made them up, thence on the paralyzing realization that we have made up all our truths; our ceremonies, our most precious conceptions and convictions - all are mere inventions.

  Barbara Myerhoff

  Realization, May, Sacred

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• Society is frivolous, and shreds its day into scraps, its conversation into ceremonies and escapes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Society, Conversation, Frivolous

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.53, Courier Corporation

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• As the magistrate has no power to impose by his laws the use of any rites and ceremonies in any church, so neither has he any power to forbid the use of such rites and ceremonies as are already received, approved, and practised by any church; because if he did so, he would destroy the church itself; the end of whose institution is only to worship God with freedom, after its own manner.

  John Locke

  Law, Atheism, Church

  John Locke (2012). “A Letter Concerning Toleration: Latin and English Texts Revised and Edited with Variants and an Introduction”, p.65, Springer Science & Business Media

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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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• I have to drink wine before I go on stage. That is still part of the ritual, the ceremony. I usually go for a Cabernet or a Merlot. You're at the mercy of promoters who try to cut corners, so you don't always get the best wines in the world. But I look at the wine as being medicinal. It's not there to be enjoyed, it's part of my preparation for a show.

  Wayne Hussey

  Wine, Cutting, Preparation

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Growing up, the major institutions were school and church. We were taught our culture was no good. We didn't have sundances. The last ones were in the 1940s and '50s. They're starting to come back now. Each reserve is starting to have a Big Lodge and a sundance ceremony. That's what's going to rebuild our people.

  Perry Bellegarde

  Growing Up, School, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• We focus on bringing back Indigenous languages, ceremonies, cultures, traditions - all that was lost over the past 150 years. This is how we'll generate hope - for all Canadian people.

  Perry Bellegarde

  Past, People, Focus

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The great achievement of Zen Buddhism, and all of its cultural expressions in painting or the tea ceremony or rock gardens, is a rejection of earlier Buddhist ideas which were dependent
  upon narrative - all the mythological creatures that populate the Buddhist galaxy. Zen insisted on the real located in nature.

  Diego Cortez

  Buddhist, Real, Buddhism

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Archery, fencing, spear fighting, all of the martial arts, tea ceremony, flower arranging...in all of these, correct breathing, correct balance, and correct stillness help to remake the individual. The basic aim is always the same: by tirelessly practicing a given skill, the student finally sheds the ego with its fears, worldly ambitions, and reliance on objective scrutiny - sheds it so completely that he becomes the instrument of a deeper power, from which mastery falls instinctively, without further effort on his part, like a ripe fruit.

  Karlfried Graf Durckheim

  Art, Flower, Fall

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