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My songs bring images to the listener's mind. The object is to transport my listeners to another place, some place sacred and spiritual that will make them glad they took the ride.
On composing Official Bio and Reflections Bio -
No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.
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No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my own constitution; the only wrong what is against it.
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Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
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Posterity is the world to come; the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our planet, and to whom we bear sacred responsibility. We must do what America does best: offer more opportunity to all and demand responsibility from all.
First inaugural address, Washington, D.C. (January 20, 1993) -
Ritual is the way you carry the presence of the sacred. Ritual is the spark that must not go out.
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Sacred cows make the best hamburger.
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Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.
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Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought...
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Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
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The American flag represents all of us and all the values we hold sacred.
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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments
The Sabbath (1951) p. 6 -
The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
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The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive.
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The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they're the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
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The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions.
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The present age prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
The Wisdom of Heschel
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