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Allen Ginsberg Poet, Activist
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"An unnoticed corner of the world suddenly becomes noticed, and when you notice something clearly and see it vividly, it becomes sacred. (On Robert Frank's photography)"

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Thomas Carlyle Essayist, Historian, Novelist
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"Labor is life: from the inmost heart of the worker rises his God-given force, the sacred celestial life-essence breathed into him by Almighty God!"

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Mark Twain Writer, Humorist
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"God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New--the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance."

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John Locke Philosopher, Physician
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"When Fashion hath once Established, what Folly or craft began, Custom makes it Sacred, and 'twill be thought impudence or madness, to contradict or question it."

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Horace Mann Educator
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"We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause."

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Abraham Lincoln Political Leader
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"In those days, our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all, and thought to include all; but now, to aid in the making the bondage of the negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, and sneered at, and construed, and hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it."

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Charles Churchill Poet, Playwright
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"This a sacred rule we find Among the nicest of mankind, (Which never might exception brook From Hobbes even down to Bolingbroke,) To doubt of facts, however true, Unless they know the causes too."

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Albert Schweitzer Philosopher, Theologian
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"Don't stop to ask whether the animal or plant you meet deserves your sympathy, or how much it feels, or even whether it can feel at all: respect it and consider all life sacred."

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