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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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• Rationally considered, nothing can be more absurd than the baptism of infants under any circumstances. No statement, no matter by whom it may be said to have been uttered, can make that true which is radically false. If an innocent child, unconscious of good or evil, irresponsible to God and man, incapable of thought or action, is not already, in accordance with Christian theology, a member of Christ, then no vicarious promise or priestly ablution can make him one. For if this were so, a similar ceremony under devil worship could make him a member of Satan.

  Tennessee Celeste Claflin

  Christian, Children, Men

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• I love you for the part of me that you bring out.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Wedding, Soulmate

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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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• For the Christian, there are, strictly speaking, no chances. A secret Master of the Ceremonies has been at work.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Secret, Chance

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.101, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You've got to realize that when all goes well, and everything is beautiful, you have no comedy. It's when somebody steps on the bride's train, or belches during the ceremony that you've got comedy!

  Phyllis Diller

  Beautiful, Steps, Comedy

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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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• For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward disposition? Is it not merely a hard word for 'The Kingdom of Heaven is within'? Heaven is neither a place nor a time.

  Florence Nightingale

  Diversity, Heaven, Inward

  Florence Nightingale, Michael D. Calabria, Janet A. Macrae (1994). “Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale: Selections and Commentaries”, p.13, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• Give up all forms of parrotry. Start practicing whatever you truly feel to be true and justly to be just. Do not make a show of your faith and beliefs. You have not to give up your religion, but to give up clinging to the husk of mere ritual and ceremony. To get to the fundamental core of Truth underlying all religions, reach beyond religion.

  Meher Baba

  Giving Up, Diversity, Fundamentals

  "The Everything and the Nothing". Book by Meher Baba, 1963.

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• Coastal sailing as long as it is perfectly safe and easy commands no magic. Overseas expeditions are invariably bound up with ceremonies and ritual. Man resorts to magic only where chance and circumstances are not fully controlled by knowledge.

  Bronislaw Malinowski

  Knowledge, Science, Men

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• Disobey n:To celebrate with an appropriate ceremony the maturity of a command

  Ambrose Bierce

  Maturity, Celebrate, Command

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• We got trapped in the limo during a thunderstorm on our way to the reception. The bride wanted to wait for the storm to pass before they went in. It was actually an awesome chance for the couple to have some quiet time together after their ceremony.

  Julie Roberts

  Couple, Rainy Day, Waiting

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• I remain detached and distant, but it is under my eyes and my orders that the work of art must create itself. Then, when the creation starts, I stand there, present at the ceremony, immaculate, calm, relaxed... ready to welcome the work of art that is coming into existence in the tangible world.

  Yves Klein

  Art, Eye, Order

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• True education is to learn how to think, not what to think. If you know how to think, if you really have that capacity, then you are a free human being-free of dogmas, superstitions, ceremonies-and therefore you can find out what religion is.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Powerful, Thinking, Being Free

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1970). “Think on these things”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• My son, you are now flesh of our flesh and bone of our bone. By the ceremony performed this day, every drop of white blood was washed from your veins; you were taken into the Shawnee Nation.

  Chief Blackfish

  Taken, Native American, Son

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• I love Opening Ceremony, Kenzo - anything Humberto Leon and Carol Lim touch. I drool over Christopher Kane, Mary Katrantzou, Delpozo, and Wes Gordon.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Opening Ceremony, Leon, Mary

  "Do You Sometimes Mispronounce Designer Names? This TV Star Does and Totally Owns It". Interview with Fawnia Soo Hoo, www.glamour.com. April 29, 2014.

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• We are nothing but ceremony; ceremony carries us away, and we leave the substance of things; we hang on to the branches and abandon the trunk and body.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Society, Substance, Body

  Michel de Montaigne (2003). “The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters”, Everyman's Library

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• The solemnity of the annual Nobel ceremonies in Stockholm with the cheerful bad taste of the grand opening of a shopping center in Los Angeles.

  Vincent Canby

  Shopping, Cheerful, Taste

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• To switch lads and lassies from quickie ceremonies back to the catered works in to-be-worm-only-once white dresses, the [wedding] garment producers have turned to sociology. Through statistics as carefully laid out as a bridal train, they are establishing a correlation showing a higher divorce rate for the informally gowned.... They may just have something there.... If a bride has sunk a bunk of savings into a dress she can't use again in a second wedding, she might think twice about having a second.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Marriage, Divorce, Thinking

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• When we paint, whether it is on our bodies for ceremony or on bark or canvas for the market, we're not just painting for fun or profit, we're painting as we always have done to demonstrate our continuing link with our country and the rights and responsibilities we have to it.

  Galarrwuy Yunupingu

  Country, Art, Fun

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• I honor most those to whom I show least honor; and where my soul moves with great alacrity, I forget the proper steps of ceremony.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Moving, Self, Soul

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.186, Stanford University Press

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• Courtship, properly understood, is the process whereby both the male and the female are brought into that state of sexual tumescence which is a more or less necessary condition for sexual intercourse. The play of courtship cannot, therefore, be considered to be definitely brought to an end by the ceremony of marriage; it may more properly be regarded as the natural preliminary to every act of coitus.

  Havelock Ellis

  Marriage, Sex, Play

  Havelock Ellis (2015). “Studies in the Psychology of Sex v3: Human Sexuality”, p.198, 谷月社

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• Gardening is not a rational act. What matters is the immersion of the hands in the earth, that ancient ceremony of which the Pope kissingthe tarmac is merely a pallid vestigial remnant.

  Margaret Atwood

  What Matters, Hands, Gardening

  Margaret Atwood (2012). “Bluebeard's Egg”, p.277, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The vows one makes privately are more binding than any ceremony or even a Shubert contract.

  Beatrice Lillie

  Vow, Contracts, Binding

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• In the name of religion, we force widowhood upon our three lakh girl-widows who could not understand the import of the marriage ceremony.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Girl, Names, Religion

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