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alta Quotes and Quotations
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The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon. Felix Adler | top
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We will not, on the altar of money, mortgage our conscience, mortgage our faith, mortgage our salvation. Peter Akinola | top
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No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily. Andre Breton | top
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Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity. Phillips Brooks | top
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Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god. Charles Buck | top
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Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods. Gilbert K. Chesterton | top
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The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete. Pierre de Coubertin | top
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Man does not bring to God's altar the stuff of nature in itself, in its initial structure, but something he has made and molded out of nature for the nourishment and the inspiration of men. Wilford O. Cross | top
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As soon as I landed at Malta I found that though I could go to Tunis I could not go away without being quarantined for ten days and if I remained in Malta I must stay a week. Richard H. Davis | top
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My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. Arthur Conan Doyle | top
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The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice. Emma Goldman | top
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There's a myth that Roosevelt gave Stalin Eastern Europe. I was with Roosevelt every day at Yalta. W. Averell Harriman | top
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The First Amendment is not an altar on which we must sacrifice our children, families, and community standards. Obscene material that is not protected by the First Amendment can and must be prohibited. Orrin Hatch | top
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There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion. William Hazlitt | top
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Will you permit the sacred fire of liberty, brought by your fathers from the venerable temples of Britain, to be quenched and trodden out on the simple altars they have raised? Joseph Howe | top
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I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. Thomas Jefferson | top
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Two races share today the soil of Canada. These people had not always been friends. But I hasten to say it. There is no longer any family here but the human family. It matters not the language people speak, or the altars at which they kneel. Wilfrid Laurier | top
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Before I took the veil, I was ornamented for the ceremony, and was clothed in a rich dress belonging to the Convent, which was used on such occasions; and placed not far from the altar in the chapel, in the view of a number of spectators who had assembled, perhaps about forty. Maria Monk | top
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Malta is a sod of a place. David Niven | top
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He came by a leap to the goal of purpose, not by the toilsome steps of reason. On the instant his headlong spirit declared his purpose: this was the one being for him in all the world: at this altar he would light a lamp of devotion, and keep it burning forever. Gilbert Parker | top
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At the centre of Christianity is community; we are gathered by the Lord around the altar. Timothy Radcliffe | top
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There's no question that Stalin broke the agreements made at Yalta completely about elections that were supposed to be held immediately in Poland, and Eastern Europe was plunged into slavery as a consequence. Mark Shields | top
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Not until he stood at the altar did he achieve a sense of being hale and furnished. It was strange, he thought, that a man would find his surest current in the spot where he felt least worthy. Charles Tennyson Turner | top
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I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all. Queen Victoria | top
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Jeremiah has to lament that there are as many altars as towns in Judah. Julius Wellhausen | top
