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«We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.»
Author: Benjamin Cardozo
| Keywords:
formula, formulas, Peace of, peace of mind, ritual, The Formula
«The one thing I remember about Christmas was that my father used to take me out in a boat about ten miles offshore on Christmas Day, and I used to have to swim back. Extraordinary. It was a ritual. Mind you, that wasn't the hard part. The difficult bit was getting out of the sack.»
Author: John Cleese
(Actor)
| Keywords:
boat, Christmas, Christmas Day, extraordinary, How to swim, miles, my father, offshore, out in, ritual, sack, sacked, swim, Take Me, The Hard
«To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance.»
Author: Philip Andrew Adams
| About:
Holidays,
Reassurance
| Keywords:
holidays, reassurance, ritual, voyages
«The leaders of the Catholic Church endorsed The Exorcist ; virtually promoted it as much as they could. The Cardinals of New York and Los Angeles and Chicago and the other big cities, all over the world, they endorsed it because it represents a literal depiction of the Roman ritual of exorcism which still exists in the Catholic faith. It's still there. The power of faith to drive out demons. And this film showed that and they embraced it.»
Author: William Friedkin
(Film Director, Producer, Writer)
| Keywords:
Angeles, Big cities, Big City, Cardinals, Catholic, Catholic Church, Catholic churches, demons, depiction, drive out, embraced, endorse, endorsed, exorcism, exorcist, exorcists, promoted, represents, ritual, roman, Roman Catholic, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Church, Roman world, showed, The Cardinals, The Catholic, The Roman Catholic Church, virtually
«Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.»
Author: Camille Paglia
| Keywords:
awash, bodybuilding, chemistry, defying, modern science, ritual, surpasses
«We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.»
Author: Walter Benjamin
(Essayist, Theologian, Writer)
| Keywords:
antiquities, assault, bare, bombs, enervated, enervating, erected, foundations, perverse, ritual, The Foundations, toll, tolls
«My telephone calls and meetings and decisions were now parts of a prescribed ritual aimed at making peace with the past; his calls, his meetings and his decisions were already the ones that would shape America's future.»
Author: Richard M. Nixon
(President)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
meetings, ritual, telephone, telephone call
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