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• Great as the planning were for the dinner, the lot was so contrived that not a soul in the house be supposed to be kept from the break of day ceremony of Blessing in the church.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Blessing, House, Soul

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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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• I got the letter about becoming a Sir in 2000, the same year that Pauline asked me if we could finally get married. My assistant, Colette, called up and it turned out both the wedding and the Buck House ceremony were happening on the same day. I was knighted at 11 and married at four. She became an instant Lady.

  Paul Smith

  Years, House, Four

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• An outward observance without any real inward meaning is only a ceremony.

  Alfred Edersheim

  Real, Inward, Observance

  Alfred Edersheim (1874). “The Temple: Its Ministry and Services, as They Were at the Time of Jesus Christ”, p.80

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• I believe in ceremony. I think ceremony is important, pomp and circumstance, tradition. I'm into those things.

  Rob Lowe

  Believe, Thinking, Important

  "Rob Lowe: I can't play average guy because of my good looks". Interview With Nicki Gostin, www.foxnews.com. April 10, 2014.

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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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• The first task of the Magician in every ceremony is therefore to render his Circle absolutely impregnable.

  Aleister Crowley

  Circles, Tasks, Firsts

  Aleister Crowley (2014). “Magick in Theory and Practice”, p.124, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion.

  William Wycherley

  Doe, Sincerity, Suspects

  Mr. William Wycherley, Mr. John Crown, Colley Cibber “A Collection of the Best English Plays, Chosen Out of All the Best Authors..: Vol. IX.”

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• There is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel, that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Yoga, Exercise, Meditation

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.282, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you know your ceremonies and culture you'll know where the offense takes place

  Floyd Red Crow Westerman

  Culture, Offense, Knows

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• A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Wedding, Two, Persons

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.233, 谷月社

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• True love isn't reserved for weddings and ceremonies. It's from the heart. That's all it has to be. All it ever is.

  Ridley Pearson

  Heart, Love Is, Reserved

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• Great drama, like the energy implicit in every atom, is eternally around and within us, but liberated only by coincidence, ceremony, creativity, periods reaching completion, pressures reaching the bursting point, and the simple but painful cultivation of awareness.

  Robert Grudin

  Drama, Creativity, Simple

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• LOVE is essentially self-communicative: those who do not have it catch it from those who have it.... No amount of rites, rituals, ceremonies, worship, meditation, penance and remembrance can produce love in themselves. None of these is necessarily a sign of love. On the contrary, those who sigh loudly and weep and wail have yet to experience love. Love sets on fire the one who finds it. At the same time it seals his lips so that no smoke comes out

  Meher Baba

  Love, Fire, Self

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• DUEL, n. A formal ceremony preliminary to reconciliation of two enemies. Great skill is necessary to its satisfactory observance; if awkwardly performed . . . deplorable consequences sometimes ensue. A long time ago a man lost his life.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Time, Men

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.60, University of Georgia Press

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• KISS, n. A word invented by the poets as a rhyme for "bliss." It is supposed to signify, in a general way, some kind of rite or ceremony appertaining to a good understanding; but the manner of its performance is unknown to this lexicographer.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Kissing, Understanding, Lexicographer

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.120, 谷月社

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• There are no tricks in plain and simple faith.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Faith, Simple

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 2, l. 20

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• The wedding is the chief ceremony of the middle-class mythology, and it functions as the official entrée of the spouses to their middle-class status. This is the real meaning of saving up to get married. The young couple struggles to set up an image of comfortable life which they will be forced to live up to in the years that follow.

  Germaine Greer

  Couple, Real, Struggle

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• Tragically, some people believe they are going to heaven when they die just because a few drops of water were sprinkled over their heads a few weeks after their birth. They have no personal faith, have never made a personal decision, and are banking on a hollow ceremony to save them. How absurd.

  Max Lucado

  Believe, People, Water

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• President Obama held a ceremony at the White House to celebrate the first night of Hanukkah. In response, Republicans said, 'It's even worse than we thought. He's a Jewish Muslim.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Night, White, House

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• It was only long after the ceremony that we learned why we got married in the first place.

  Lois Wyse

  Marriage, Long, Firsts

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• I didn't show up at the ceremony to collect any of my first three Oscars. Once I went fishing, another time there was a war on, and on another occasion, I remember, I was suddenly taken drunk.

  John Ford

  War, Taken, Fishing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• No legal ceremony--no election of the woman--no penalty for the perfidy of the man--no law to compel him to do his duty, no compensation for the poor woman who is turned adrift like the girl of the street, penniless, to sell herself on the best possible terms. This is Divine marriage, or Moses and the Bible lie; and this is Bible divorce--putting away!

  Victoria Woodhull

  Girl, Lying, Divorce

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• This is a big surprise I don't agree with the concept of award ceremonies, but I'm prepared to make an exception for the ones I'm nominated for. The last time there was a naked man covered in gold paint in my house, it was me.

  Banksy

  Men, Awards, House

  "Banksy Request to Appear at the Oscars in Disguise Rejected" by Stuart Kemp, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 21, 2011.

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• Gay unions, what is that about? I haven't been invited to any ceremonies, and I wouldn't go anyway. The idea that gay people have to mimic what obviously doesn't work for straight people any more... I think is a bit tragic. I am looking forward to gay divorces.

  Boy George

  Divorce, Gay, Thinking

  The London Evening Standard, February 20, 2006.

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