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• Everything was leveled, there were no extremes of joy or sorrow any more but only habit, routine, ancient family names and rites and customs, slow careful old people moving cautiously around furniture that had sat in the same positions for fifty years.

  Anne Tyler

  Moving, Years, Names

  Anne Tyler (1991). “Anne Tyler: a new collection : three complete novels”, Outlet

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• If religion, instead of being the manifestation of a spiritual ideal, gives prominence to scriptures and external rites, then does it disturb the peace more than anything else.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Spiritual, Giving, Religion

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• Death is the least civilized rite of passage.

  Louise Erdrich

  Death, Passages, Civilized

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• Down in adoration falling, Lo! the sacred Host we hail; Lo! o'er ancient forms departing, Newer rites of grace prevail; Faith for all defects supplying, Where the feeble senses fail.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Fall, Grace, Sacred

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• A man's life from birth to death was a series of transition rites which brought him nearer and nearer to his ancestors.

  Chinua Achebe

  Life, Men, Transition

  Chinua Achebe (2009). “Things Fall Apart: Authoritative Text, Contexts and Criticism”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• The first time I thought about attempting a body suspension was after watching a documentary on rites-of-passage ceremonies from other cultures. I was completely intrigued by what these people put their bodies through.

  Criss Angel

  Other Cultures, People, Firsts

  Criss Angel (2009). “Mindfreak: Secret Revelations”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• O fools, awake! The rites ye sacred hold
  Are but a cheat contrived by men of old
  Who lusted after wealth and gained their lust
  And died in baseness-and their law is dust.

  Al-Maʿarri

  Men, Dust, Law

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• Man's last day must ever be awaited and none to be
  counted happy until his death, until his last funeral rites
  are paid.

  Ovid

  Death, Men, Funeral

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• Every human being shall see in each and all of his fellow-men a hidden divinity... that every human being is made in the likeness of the Godhead. When that time comes there will be no need for any religious coercion; for then every meeting between one man and another will of itself be in the nature of a religious rite, a sacrament.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Religious, Communication, Men

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• Today is made of yesterday, each time I steal
  toward rites I do not know, waiting for the lost
  ingredient, as if salt or money or even lust
  would keep us calm and prove us whole at last.

  Anne Sexton

  Yesterday, Waiting, Lust

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.25, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Religious phenomena are naturally arranged in two fundamental categories: beliefs and rites. The first are states of opinion, and consist in representations; the second are determined modes of action.

  Emile Durkheim

  Religious, Two, Fundamentals

  W. S. F. Pickering, Emile Durkheim (2011). “Durkheim on Religion: A Selection of Readings with Bibliographies and Introductory Remarks”, p.113, Casemate Publishers

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• Whether religious or racial, anti-Semitism is always repugnant, one of the most destructive manifestations of human stupidity and evil. What is profoundly expressed in it is man's traditional mistrust of the man who is not part of his tribe, that 'other' who speaks a different language, whose skin is a different color, and who participates in mysterious rites and rituals.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Religious, Men, Color

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• The rites of passage in the academic world are arcane and, in their own way, highly romantic, and the tensions and unplesantries of dissertations and final oral examinations are quickly forgotten in the wonderful moment of the sherry afterward, admission into a very old club, parties of celebration, doctoral gowns, academic rituals, and hearing for the first time "Dr.," rather than "Miss" Jamison.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Party, Missing, Examination

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• That nameless and infinitely delicate aroma of inexpressible tenderness and attentiveness which, in every refined and honorable attachment, is contemporary with the courtship, and precedes the final banns and the rite; but which, like the bouquet of the costliest German wines, too often evaporates upon pouring love out to drink, in the disenchanting glasses of the matrimonial days and nights.

  Herman Melville

  Love, Marriage, Wine

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• I think that we all have to have that rite of passage of dating the tortured artist who seems cooler than we think we are; we aspire to be like them, and we're excited that somebody is turning us on to new music or a new lifestyle.

  Drew Barrymore

  Thinking, Artist, Dating

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• In Bolivia there are Catholic, Evangelical, Methodist, Baptist churches, and so on. In Bolivia there are indigenous religious beliefs like the rite of Pachamama Mother Earth, which shows us that Mother Earth is our life, we are born out of the Earth we live on the Earth and return to the Earth.

  Evo Morales

  Mother, Religious, Catholic

  Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. September 22, 2010.

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• O happy, happy each
  man whom predestined fate
  leads to the holy rite
  of hill and mountain worship.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Fate, Men, Mountain

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.223, New Directions Publishing

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• I've always been a fan of melody and emotional melancholy, whether it was Rites of Spring or Tears for Fears or Neil Young. If I hear a song that has a sweet melody, I'm a sucker for it, whether it's Linkin Park or Little Richard.

  Dave Grohl

  Song, Sweet, Spring

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• I'm not one of those "omg texting kids rite bad" alarmists. I just think there's an interesting nexus where the Internet itself hastened language change when it comes to Internet terms.

  Bill Walsh

  Kids, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• I think institutions will inevitably substitute a rite or a ritual for the authentic, for the real McCoy, because then priests can control the pipeline to god, and the parishioner can approach with offerings. But if everybody can have a pipeline to deity, why then the whole priest scam is put out of business.

  Terence McKenna

  Real, Thinking, Offering

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• I choose to surround myself with happy human beings. I went through the angsty period. I think every single person does. I think it's a rite of passage to hate the world and feel like the victim.

  Shailene Woodley

  Hate, Thinking, World

  Source: collider.com

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• My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars.

  Winston Churchill

  Drinking, Smoking, Alcohol

  Uttered during a lunch with the Arab leader, Ibn Saud

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• State sanctioned marriage is a civil contract period. A contract is not a judgment of moral value. It is a legal agreement between two parties that testifies to a meeting of minds between those consenting entities. It is not a religious act or rite and so has nothing to do with Adam and Eve or Steve or even Harvey.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Religious, Party, Agreement

  "Historic for Some, Same Old Shit for the Rest of Us" by Harvey Fierstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 8, 2008.

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• Confession is a sacred rite enhanced by allegory, exaggeration, and lies.

  Craig Ferguson

  Lying, Sacred, Confession

  Craig Ferguson (2010). “Between the Bridge and the River: A Novel”, p.9, Chronicle Books

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• Walgreens, Rite Aid, CVS and Wal-Mart have all figured out the evolution of life and they grabbed all the products that are necessary for a life. And they stuck them in one aisle and they put them in order according to how you mess up... First thing you're going to see: condoms. Next to that: lubricant. Next to that: pregnancy test. Next to that: Pampers. Next to that: formula. And at the end of the aisle they sell beer.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Pregnancy, Beer, Order

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