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“Film composing is a splendid discipline, and I recommend a course of it to all composition teachers whose pupils are apt to be dawdling in their ideas, or whose every bar is sacred and must not be cut or altered.”

Ideas Film Courses Teacher Cutting Discipline Sacred Bars Composition Splendid Altered Pupils Composing

Book:National Music: And Other Essays

Source: National Music: And Other Essays

“In [family snapshots] the flow of profane time has been stopped and a sacred interval of self-conscious revelation has been cut from it by the edge of the picture frame and the light of the sun or the flash.”

Has Beens Self Light Sun Cutting Conscious Flow Sacred Edges Revelations Flash Self Conscious Intervals Profane Snapshots Picture Frames

Author:Adrienne Rich

“And here, over the portals of my fort, I shall cut in the stone the word which is to be my beacon and my banner. The word which will not die should we all perish in battle. The word which can never die on this earth, for it is the heart of it and the meaning and the glory. The sacred word: EGO”

Should Heart Earth Dies Cutting Battle Ego Glory Stones Sacred Banner Portal Beacons Forts

Book:Anthem

Source: Anthem

“As your older brother, it's my sacred duty to save you from yourself." She brings her fists down on the table, making all the dinner plates jump. "The ONLY reason you're fifteen minutes older than me is because you cut in front of the line, as usual!”

Reason Lines Cutting Minutes Fronts Brother Duty Tables Sacred Dinner Usual Plates Fifteen Fists Older Brother Dinner Plates

Book:Bruiser

Source: Bruiser

“When the female voice is repressed and stifled, the entire community can easily find themselves cut off from the sacred feminine, depriving themselves of the full image of god.”

Voice Community Cutting Female Sacred Feminine God Image Repressed Depriving Sacred Feminine Female Voice

Author:Rob Bell

“Doing a straight-forward, clear-cut task that has a beginning and an end balances out the complexity-without-end that often vexes the rest of my life. Sacred simplicity.”

Life Ends Work Clear Cutting Balance Tasks Sacred Simplicity Complexity City Life Vex

Book:All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things

Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things

“Speaking of the murder of the younger Hanan, and other eminent nobles and hierarchs, Josephus says, "I cannot but think that it was because God had doomed this city to destruction as a polluted city, and was resolved to purge His sanctuary by fire, that He cut off these their great defenders and well-wishers; while those that a little before had worn the sacred garments and presided over the public worship, and had been esteemed venerable by those that dwelt in the whole habitable earth, were cast out naked, and seen to be the food of dogs and wild beasts."”

Source: The Sweet Story of Jesus: The Life of Christ

“The word sacred comes from sacrifice, to cut up. That means that in order to have a sacred journey, you have to give up something, sacrifice; but few people today in the West want to hear about that. Americans want the boon without the labyrinth.Pilgrimage starts the wheel, it turns the wheel of samsara, the wheel of life, and we have to live with the consequences.”

People Want Giving Mean Today Order Turns Cutting Sacrifice Journey Giving Up Consequence Sacred West Wheels Labyrinth Pilgrimage Boon Samsara Wheel Of Life

Author:Anthony Lawlor