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• When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.

  Marquis de Lafayette

  Rights, Government, People

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• Home is the sacred refuge of our life.

  John Dryden

  Home, Refuge, Our Lives

  John Dryden, Sir Walter Scott (1808). “The Works of John Dryden,: The life of John Dryden”, p.214

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• My dance is a sacred poem in which each movement is a word and whose every word is underlined by music. The temple in which I dance can be vague or faithfully reproduced, for I am the temple.

  Mata Hari

  Dance, Movement, Temples

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• Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.

  Bertrand Russell

  Exercise, Liberty, Principles

  Bertrand Russell (1960). “Sceptical Essays”

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• I was standing on the highest mountain of them all, and round about beneath me was the whole hoop of the world. And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being. And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people was one of many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all children of one mother and one father. And I saw that it was holy.

  Black Elk

  Mother, Children, Father

  "Black Elk Speaks". Book by John Gneisenau Neihardt, 1932.

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• The history of religions reaches down and makes contact with that which is essentially human: the relation of man to the sacred. The history of religions can play an extremely important role in the crisis we are living through. The crises of modern man are to a large extent religious ones, insofar as they are an awakening of his awareness to an absence of meaning.

  Mircea Eliade

  Religious, Men, Play

  "Ordeal by Labyrinth: Conversations with Claude-Henri Rocquet". Book by Mircea Eliade, p. 148, 1982.

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• The empirical usability of the sacred ceremonial words makes both the speaker and listener believe in their corporeal presence.

  Theodor Adorno

  Believe, Usability, Listeners

  Theodor Adorno (2013). “The Jargon of Authenticity”, p.19, Routledge

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• Loyalty is something you should always hold sacred in your heart.

  Daunte Culpepper

  Loyalty, Heart, Should

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• A man must go on a quest / to discover the sacred fire / in the sanctuary of his own belly / to ignite the flame in his heart / to fuel the blaze in the hearth / to rekindle his ardor for the earth

  Sam Keen

  Heart, Men, Fire

  Sam Keen (2010). “Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man”, p.9, Bantam

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• Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Advice, Hamburgers, Cows

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 20 Apr. 1989.

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• And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father.

  Black Elk

  Mother, Children, Father

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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• Neither in what it gives, nor in what it does not give, nor in the mode of presentation, must the unclouded face of truth suffer wrong. Comment is free, but facts are sacred.

  C. P. Scott

  Giving, Suffering, Doe

  'Manchester Guardian' 5 May 1921

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• Nothing is sacred. And, more importantly...the 'nothing' you end up with is truly sacred.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Ends

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• Forgiveness works two ways, in most instances. People have to forgive themselves too. The powerful have to forgive themselves for their behavior. That should be a sacred process.

  Sidney Poitier

  Powerful, Two, People

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• A peaceful home is as sacred a place as any chapel or cathedral.

  Bil Keane

  Home, Peaceful, Chapel

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• Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.

  Georges Bataille

  Sacrifice, Sacred Things, Productions

  Georges Bataille (1985). “Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939”, p.119, U of Minnesota Press

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• All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Love, Life, Passion

  'Love' (1800)

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• Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Principles

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1935, Volume 4”, p.343, Best Books on

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• Work to me is a sacred thing.

  Margaret Bourke-White

  Sacred Things

  Margaret Bourke-White (2016). “Portrait of Myself”, p.390, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people as one of many hoops that made one circle.

  Black Elk

  Native American, Circles, People

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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• Before what is sacred, people lose all sense of power and all confidence; they occupy a powerless and humble attitude toward it. And yet no thing is sacred of itself, but by my declaring it sacred, by my declaration, my judgment, my bending the knee; in short, by my conscience.

  Max Stirner

  Attitude, Humble, People

  Max Stirner (2012). “The Ego and His Own: The Case of the Individual Against Authority”, p.72, Courier Corporation

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• Poetry, my dear friends, is a sacred incarnation of a smile. Poetry is a sigh that dries the tears. Poetry is a spirit who dwells in the soul, whose nourishment is the heart, whose wine is affection. Poetry that comes not in this form is a false messiah.

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Wine, Soul

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• Play is a sacred thing, a divine ordinance, for developing in the child a harmonious and healthy organism, and preparing that organism for the commencement of the work of life.

  J. G. Holland

  Children, Play, Healthy

  J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.88

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• Breathing is meditation; life is a meditation. You have to breathe in order to live, so breathing is how you get in touch with the sacred space of your heart.

  Willow Smith

  Heart, Order, Breathing

  "Jaden and Willow Smith on Prana Energy, Time and Why School Is Overrated". Interview with Su Wu, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. November 17, 2014.

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• If the American people could learn what I know of the fierce hatred of the priests of Rome against our institutions, our schools, our most sacred rights, and our so dearly bought liberties, they would drive them out as traitors.

  Abraham Lincoln

  School, Rights, Rome

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