"The mundane and the sacred are one and the same."
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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)"
"Mining in BC's Sacred Headwaters is like drilling for oil in the Sistine Chapel"
"All true work is sacred."
"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!"
"You can find the sacred in the most ordinary of things."
"The sacred pint alone can unbind the tongue."
"The sacred exists only at the expense of the truth."
"God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New--the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance."
"No sacred fane requires us to submit to insult."
"Time does not become sacred to us until we have lived it."
"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."
"The Bible is God's sacred Word of truth."
"We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause."
"Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"All that is sacred and taboo in the world are meaningless."
"The need of truth is more sacred than any other need."