"The TV's the altar. I'm what people are……" — Neil Gaiman
"The TV's the altar. I'm what people are sacrificing to.' 'What do they sacrifice?' asked Shadow. 'Their time, mostly,' said Lucy. 'Sometimes each other."
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1,015 Quotes by Neil Gaiman
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The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.
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Everyone knows the beautiful story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac. How this noble father led his child to…
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For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar…
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Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.
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When men do not love their hearth, nor reverence their thresholds, it is a sign that they have dishonoured both…
— John Ruskin
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The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be…
— Joseph de Maistre
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Frances and Courtney, I'll be at your altar. Please keep going, Courtney, for Frances, for her life will be so…
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Are you making no progress in prayer? Then you need only offer God the prayers which the Savior has poured…
— Margaret Mary Alacoque
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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.
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The clergy ... believe that any portion of power confided to me [as President] will be exerted in opposition to…
— Thomas Jefferson
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When any church will inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualification for membership, the Savior's condensed statement of the…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valor, and be in readiness for the conflict; for it is better for…
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