"To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people."
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"Osama bin Laden, who is a Saudi, feels himself to be a patriot because the U.S. has forces in Saudi Arabia, which is sacred because it is the land of the prophet Mohammed."
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"The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable."
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"I am against abortion; I think that life is sacred and we should take a position of being against abortion. I think it is wrong to take human life. I think that human life starts at conception."
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"Life is sacred. Life is art. Life is sacred art."
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"The world is a sacred vessel that cannot be changed. He who changes it will destroy it. He who seizes it will lose it."
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"Committing yourself to one person is sacred."
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"I follow nature as the surest guide, and resign myself with implicit obedience to her sacred ordinances."
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"Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are."
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"If you have a sacred place and use it, take advantage of it, something will happen."
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"To do everything in a sacred manner means to do everything fully in the state of presence."
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"Freedom of expression must be considered sacred and thought can only be corrected by counter thought."
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"The conscience is the sacred haven of the liberty of man."
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"In the eyes of dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for all times, nothing is absolute or sacred."
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"Love consists in feeling the Sacred One beating inside the loved one."
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"Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it."
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"It was my life — like all lives, mysterious and irrevocable and sacred. So very close, so very present, so very belonging to me. How wild it was, to let it be."
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"If everything that ever lived is dead, and everything alive is gonna die...where does the sacred part come in?"
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"To stand alone against all adversity is the most sacred moment of existence."
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"The future has become uninhabitable. Such hopelessness can arise, I think, only from an inability to face the present, to live in the present, to live as a responsible being among other beings in this sacred world here and now, which is all we have, and all we need, to found our hope upon."
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