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• I don't have a special place or ritual for writing songs, basically I write songs whenever an idea hits me, in my hotel room, on the road, in the plane.

  Kelly Jones

  Song, Writing, Ideas

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• What we need to be assured of is not that we possess an excellent system of doctrine and ritual, but that the gift of the Holy Spirit is a reality.

  Roland Allen

  Reality, Missionary, Doctrine

  Roland Allen (2012). “Missionary Principles and Practice”, p.78, The Lutterworth Press

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• A meal can be thought of as a ritual and a work of art, with limits laid down, desires aroused and fulfilled, enticements, variety, patterning and plot. As in a work of art, not only the overall form, but also the details matter intensely.

  Margaret Visser

  Art, Desire, Details

  Margaret Visser (2015). “The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities, and Meaning of Table Manners”, p.25, Open Road Media

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• We should think of a photographer as a Samurai who makes rituals, moves and gestures in order to develop his techniques and his instinct.

  Alex Majoli

  Moving, Thinking, Order

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• A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and if one of the team cannot handle the forces, everybody is going to suffer. A ritual lodge is no place for the well-meaning ineffectual.

  Dion Fortune

  Team, Suffering, Stronger

  Dion Fortune (2016). “Psychic self-defense: The Classic Instruction Manual for Protecting Yourself Against Paranormal Attack”, p.85, Dion Fortune

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• If I were to disclose all their rituals, I think that it would be easy to prove that witches are not diabolists; but the oaths are solemn and the witches are my friends. I would not want to hurt their feelings. They have secrets which to them are sacred. They have good reason for their secrecy.

  Gerald Gardner

  Hurt, Thinking, Feelings

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• Parties are the nightly ritual of the sophisticated society.

  Dominick Dunne

  Party, Sophisticated

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• A pool game mixes ritual with geometry.

  Mary Karr

  Games, Pool, Geometry

  Mary Karr (2015). “The Liars' Club: Picador Classic”, p.279, Pan Macmillan

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• Many of the religious apologists out there are not stupid people, they are often brilliant. People working in the field of theology and philosophy smart people everywhere. What they are those religious apologists are smart poeple who can build these amazingly intricate rationalizations for whatever weird practice they favor. Whether it's ritual cannibalism, or praying to spirits, or treating women as chattel. And they always building this on terrible shaky foundation of false premises.

  PZ Myers

  Religious, Philosophy, Smart

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• I worry that friends will slowly become professional pallbearers, waiting for each death, of their lovers, friends and neighbors, and polishing their funeral speeches; perfecting their rituals of death rather than a relatively simple ritual of life such as screaming in the streets.

  David Wojnarowicz

  Simple, Worry, Funeral

  David Wojnarowicz (2017). “Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration”, p.113, Canongate Books

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• The true shaman, the true naturalist, works to reconnect conscious human life with Nature and Spirit through totems and ritual.

  Ted Andrews

  Totems, Spirit, Conscious

  Ted Andrews (2010). “Animal Speak: The Spiritual & Magical Powers of Creatures Great and Small”, p.13, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• The spirit of playful competition is, as a social impulse, older than culture itself and pervades all life like a veritable ferment. Ritual grew up in sacred play; poetry was born in play and nourished on play; music and dancing were pure play....We have to conclude, therefore, that civilization is, in its earliest phases, played. It does not come from play...it arises in and as play, and never leaves it.

  Johan Huizinga

  Civilization, Play, Dancing

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• In the New Hebrides, any dancer making a mistake was assaulted, wounded, and possibly killed by bowmen posted to keep careful watch for inaccuracies in rituals.

  Jamake Highwater

  Dance, Mistake, Dancing

  Jamake Highwater (1992). “Dance: Rituals of Experience”, p.39, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Unfortunately we've seen meditation insulted in a sense with the image of ritual. You have to dress a certain way, follow a certain type of lifestyle, all that sort of thing, very culty - and that, of course, has nothing to do with the practice whatsoever.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Practice, Meditation

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• Belief transcends ritual, structure and societal expectation. It is an enlivening, intensely personal core to our being. Our way of being.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Believe, Heartache, Expectations

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, p.147, Conari Press

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• A citizenship of wholesale delegation and abdication to public and private power systems, such as prevails now, makes such periodic checks as elections little more than rituals.

  Ralph Nader

  Dark, Age, Abdication

  Ralph Nader (2000). “The Ralph Nader Reader”, p.344, Seven Stories Press

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• In its purest sense, nicknaming is an elitist ritual practiced by those who cherish hierarchy. For preppies it's a smoke signal that allows Bunny to tell Pooky that they belong to the same tribe, while among the good old boys it serves the cause of masculine dominance by identifying Bear and Wrecker as Alpha males.

  Florence King

  Boys, Names, Males

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• If the music in a groove fits with what you're playing, then play it; if not, then you can play it backwards. If that doesn't work, you try it at a different speed. If it really doesn't work you just break it. The whole ritual to put a record on a turntable just to listen to it, I don't do that too often.

  Christian Marclay

  Play, Trying, Different

  "Don't sleeve me this way" by Rob Young, www.theguardian.com. February 14, 2005.

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• Civil Society is a cluster of institutions and associations strong enough to prevent tyranny, but which are, none the less, entered and left freely, rather than imposed by birth or sustained by awesome ritual. You can join the Labour Party without slaughtering a sheep.

  Ernest Gellner

  Strong, Party, Sheep

  Ernest Gellner (1994). “Conditions of liberty: civil society and its rivals”, Hamish Hamilton Ltd

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• I had this whole ritual with my mother making the bed with me inside it so I would be invisible.

  Ahmet Zappa

  Mother, Bed, Would Be

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

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• I enjoy ritual and ceremony. What I don't like is when it's badly done or sloppily done. This is actually a theological issue - the forms we adopt, the actions we take, the way we do things, are, as it were, a sacrament.

  Peter Hollingworth

  Issues, Done, Way

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• We are presented with an unpleasant choice between either committing to peculiar concepts about immaterial deities or letting go entirely of a host of consoling, subtle or just charming rituals for which we struggle to find equivalents in secular society.

  Alain de Botton

  Letting Go, Struggle, Secular Society

  "Katie Antoniou interviews Alain de Botton on his new book 'Religion for Atheists'". Interview with Katie Antoniou, www.run-riot.com. January 24, 2012.

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• I write on sacred stories, symbols and rituals of all cultures - European, American and Chinese - but my audiences, typically, like me to focus on India.

  Devdutt Pattanaik

  Writing, Focus, Chinese

  Sunday Hindu Interview, devdutt.com. November 1, 2009.

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• Man cannot be enlightened through any organization, creed, dogma, priest or ritual, nor through any philosophical knowledge or psychological technique. He has to find it through understanding the contents of his own mind, through observation, not through intellectual analysis or introspective dissection.

  Radhanath Swami

  Philosophical, Men, Organization

  Radhanath Swami (2016). “The Journey Home”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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• Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules. Everything is experienced for the first time.

  W. P. Kinsella

  Baseball, Growing Up, Firsts

  W. P. Kinsella (1999). “Shoeless Joe”, p.85, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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