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- To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive… — Philip Sidney
- Democracy's ceremonial, its feast, it's great function, is the election. — H.G. Wells
- The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to describe it… — Camille Paglia
- Though we have clear and full scriptures in the New Testament for abolishing the Ceremonial law, yet we nowhere read in all… — George Gillespie
- My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom — Franz Boas
- Perhaps the individual is so viable a god because he can actually understand the ceremonial significance of the way he is treated,… — Erving Goffman
- Dance has been transformed from an involuntary motor discharge, a ceremonial rite, into a work of art, conscious of, intended for, observation. — Jamake Highwater
- The telling of stories, like singing and praying, would seem to be an almost ceremonial act, an ancient and necessary mode of… — David Abram
- Etiquette is the ceremonial code of polite life, more voluminous and minute in each portion of society according to its rank. — John Ramsay McCulloch
- People rarely win wars, governments rarely lose them. People get killed. Governments moult and regroup, hydra-headed. They use flags first to shrink-wrap… — Arundhati Roy
- Wave after wave has brought to our shores beautiful and mysterious treasures from unknown worlds: figurines, animals, fetishes, masks, ceremonial or useful… — Dominique de Menil
- Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts. — J L Austin