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Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books.
G. I. Gurdjieff
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I don't have to participate in another culture's ceremonies in order to respect that culture.
Sherman Alexie
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Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.
Ambrose Bierce
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Is everybody in?... Is everybody in?... Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin...
Jim Morrison
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Personal relationship with God is not all just the ceremony and not the religion of doing something because you were told that's what you have to do; it's relationships, it's like we have relationships with our families, with our friends, with our loved ones.
Lenny Kravitz
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The vows one makes privately are more binding than any ceremony or even a Shubert contract.
Beatrice Lillie
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I treat my relationships like marriages. The ceremony isn't that important to me.
Charlize Theron
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I have taken part in ceremonies with North American and Mexican shamans, as well as Brazilian ceremonies.
Stanislav Grof
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The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing simply because you're out-voted.
Ira Glasser
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An outward observance without any real inward meaning is only a ceremony.
Alfred Edersheim
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It is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them.
Blaise Pascal
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This afternoon, I've arranged for this ceremony to be illuminated by solar power.
Jimmy Carter
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True love isn't reserved for weddings and ceremonies. It's from the heart. That's all it has to be. All it ever is.
Ridley Pearson
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Disobey n:To celebrate with an appropriate ceremony the maturity of a command
Ambrose Bierce
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I read nothing. I watch nothing. I haven't even seen myself in the opening ceremonies of the Vancouver Olympics. I don't look back. I don't allow myself to be influenced by people who don't know me. I'm incredibly thin-skinned. When you wander through this life as an exposed nerve, you have to make sure you remain insulated to a certain extent.
Measha Brueggergosman
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Аs I've mentioned many times, sitting through graduation ceremonies is one of life's drearier milestones.
Emily Yoffe
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Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion.
William Wycherley
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The negroes are lovers of ludicrous actions, and hence all their ceremonies seem farcical.
Isaac D'Israeli
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It was not certain what significance the ceremony held... but the formality was no less sacred for it being unintelligible
Mervyn Peake
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Society is frivolous, and shreds its day into scraps, its conversation into ceremonies and escapes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Higher education is the only business that has a ceremony for firing its customers.
Elliott Masie
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For most of my life the only ceremonies I've been to at which women were the stars were weddings. So I like weddings.
Anna Quindlen
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When one has nothing left make ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.
Cormac McCarthy
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AT&T to wed T-Mobile. Following the ceremony there will be no reception.
Richard Lerner