"Even in an empire of atheists the dead man is always sacred."
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"Truth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it."
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"Pascal in his bitter rendition of the practices of the Jesuit intellectuals he despised, including their demonstration of "the utility of interpretation," a device of manufacturing consent based on reinterpretation of sacred texts to serve wealth, power, and privilege."
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"Creed and opinion change with time, and their symbols perish; but Literature and its temples are sacred to all creeds and inviolate."
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"No woman should ever lie about another woman. You've violated the sacred covenant between women! How will stabbing one another in the back help women to rise above patriarchal oppression?"
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"As far as sacred Scripture is concerned, however much froward men try to gnaw at it, nevertheless it clearly is crammed with thoughts that could not be humanly conceived. Let each of the prophets be looked into: none will be found who does not far exceed human measure. Consequently, those for whom prophetic doctrine is tasteless ought to be thought of as lacking taste buds."
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"Those things which are sacred, are to be imparted only to sacred persons; and it is not lawful to import them to the profane until they have been initiated in the mysteries of the science."
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"Heaven hears and pities hapless men like me, For sacred ev'n to gods is misery."
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"Your work is a very sacred matter. God delights in it, and through it, He wants to best His blessings on you. This praise of work should be inscribed on all tools, on the forehead and the faces that sweat from toiling."
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"The body is a universe in itself and must be held as sacred as anything in creation....It is dangerous to forget the body as sacramental."
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"History is in a manner a sacred thing, so far as it contains truth; for where truth is, the supreme Father of it may also be said to be, at least, inasmuch as concerns truth."
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"I've never considered musical equipment very sacred."
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"As for myself: I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing sacred about myself or about any human being, that we were all machines, doomed to collide and collide and collide."
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