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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
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"If you put your heart against the earth with me In serving every creature, our Beloved will enter you From our sacred realm, and we will be, we will be So happy."

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Marcus Tullius Cicero Politician, Philosopher, Orator
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"Things sacred should not only be touched with the hands, but unviolated in thought. [Lat., Res sacros non modo manibus attingi, sed ne cogitatione quidem violari fas fuit.]"

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Jonathan Swift Satirist, Writer
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"Hereditary right should be kept sacred, not from any inalienable right in a particular family, but to avoid the consequences that usually attend the ambition of competitors."

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Joyce Carol Oates Author, Poet
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"We inhabit ourselves without valuing ourselves, unable to see that here, now, this very moment is sacred; but once it’s gone – its value is incontestable."

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
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"The essence of every form is the deathless. Even the essence of a blade of grass is the deathless. And that's why the world of form is sacred."

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Edward de Bono Psychologist
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"Everyone has the right to doubt everything as often as he pleases and the duty to do it at least once. No way of looking at things is too sacred to be reconsidered. No way of doing things is beyond improvement."

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Elie Wiesel Writer, Holocaust Survivor
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"We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark."

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Ernest Hemingway Novelist
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"I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred."

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Carl Sagan Astronomer, Astrophysicist
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"The sacred truth of science is that there are no sacred truths."

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