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Jewish cantors employ a peculiar art and method of singing in their delivery. They are unexcelled in the art of covering the voice, picking up… — Enrico Caruso
When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled. — Xunzi
I don't like to say that my kitchen is a religious place, but I would say that if I were a voodoo priestess, I would… — Pearl Bailey
These days too many of us seem inclined to cover our ears, close our eyes, and blindly follow the most narrow, conservative tenets of religion… — Joan D. Vinge
The very ritual practices that the New Atheists dismiss as costly, inefficient and irrational turn out to be a solution to one of the hardest… — Jonathan Haidt
Rediscovering the controversies that occupied early Christianity sharpens our awareness of the major issue in the whole debate, then and now: What is the source… — Elaine Pagels
Children of course are monstrously conventional, repelled at once by whatever is off-center, out of whack, unmanageable. And being an only child I had been… — Alice Munro
Hands, matches, an ashtray. A ritual beautiful and bitter. — Anna Akhmatova
It's vital to establish some rituals-automatic but decisive patterns of behavior-at the beginning of the creative process, when you are most at peril of turning… — Twyla Tharp
Tragedy was foresworn, in ritual denial of the ripe knowledge that we are drawing away from one another, that we share only one thing, share… — William Gaddis
I think we ought to close Halloween down. Do you want your children to dress up as witches? The Druids used to dress up like… — Pat Robertson
I had to de-program myself. From myself. Had to reinvent rituals of purification. So full of the vagrant pollutions of others. It was time to… — Lydia Lunch
I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours. For me, it… — Curtis Sittenfeld
You need music, I don't know why. It's probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual. We need magic, and bliss, and… — Jerry Garcia
There was no violence, no speed. It moved to the rhythm of an elder dance, putting all the rituals of the world to shame. Black,… — Tanith Lee
Sometimes I have experienced God in extraordinary ways - in dramatic surprises or soul-expanding insights or unexplainable mystical encounters. More often, I have felt God's… — Brian D. McLaren
This world belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak. We… — Ken Kesey
What you encounter, recognize or discover depends to a large degree on the quality of your approach. Many of the ancient cultures practiced careful rituals… — John O'Donohue
What does Christianity mean today? National Socialism is a religion. All we lack is a religious genius capable of uprooting outmoded religious practices and putting… — Joseph Goebbels
The Masonic movement... is the custodian of the law; it is the home of the Mysteries and the seat of initiation. It holds in its… — Alice Bailey
What I do is look at ancient African tribes, and the way they dress. The rituals of how they dress. . . . There’s a… — Alexander McQueen
The ability to know that your perceptions are accurate has to happen without others' validation. Intuition is not the result of diet, rituals, or wind… — Caroline Myss
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… — PZ Myers
A pool game mixes ritual with geometry. — Mary Karr
Parties are the nightly ritual of the sophisticated society. — Dominick Dunne

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