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«I said dog's bollocks during the ceremony - was it beeped?»
«Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.»
«If insemination were the sole biological function of sex, it could be achieved far more economically in a few seconds of mounting and insertion. Indeed, the least social of mammals mate with scarcely more ceremony. The species that have evolved long-term bonds are also, by and large, the ones that rely on elaborate courtship rituals. . . . Love and sex do indeed go together.»
Author: Edward O. Wilson
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«Leopards break into the temple and drink the sacrificial chalices dry; this occurs repeatedly, again and again; finally it can be reckoned upon beforehand and becomes part of the ceremony»
Author: Franz Kafka
(Writer)
| Keywords:
again and again, beforehand, break into, ceremony, chalice, chalices, dry, Leopards, occurs, reckoned, reckons, repeatedly, sacrificial, temple, The Leopard, The temple
«It was really just whatever - good times, bad times, it didn't matter. There was no ceremony. It wasn't like 'Okay, this just happened, I have to go hack a piece of my flesh off.'»
Author: Johnny Depp
(Actor)
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Bad Times, ceremony, flesh, Good Times, go to pieces, hack, hacking, hacks, no matter what happens, okay
«Have one's ears pierced only before the wedding ceremony starts.»
«Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed.»
Author: Erma Bombeck
| About:
Adulthood,
Children,
Cute,
Graduation
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adults, ceremony, come home, contemporaries, graduation, graduations, raising, The Contemporary, tough, twenty-two, two-year, unemployed
«I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at another man?s table, where one is fain to sit mincing and chewing his meat an hour together, drink little, be always wiping his fingers and his chops, and never dare to cough nor sneeze, though he has never so much a mind to it, nor do a many things which a body may do freely by one?s self.»
«Give me the Lord as my wedding gown, and the Lord as my glory, to accomplish my works. Through devotional worship to the Lord, this ceremony is made blissful and beautiful; the Guru, the True Guru, has given this gift.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
| Keywords:
blissful, ceremony, devotional, gown, wedding ceremony, wedding gift, wedding gown
«If we use no ceremony toward others, we shall be treated without any. People are soon tired of paying trifling attentions to those who receive them with coldness, and return them with neglect.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| Keywords:
attentions, ceremony, coldness, neglect, paying, treated, trifling
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