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Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to their goddess herself.
Author:
Marguerite Yourcenar
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For the earliest period of the history of Israel, all that precedes the building of the temple, not a trace can be found of any sanctuary of exclusive legitimacy.
Author:
Julius Wellhausen
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From the building of the temple of Solomon, which is also treated as a leading epoch in chronology, a new period in the history of worship is accordingly dated, - and to a certain extent with justice.
Author:
Julius Wellhausen
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The representation of the tabernacle arose out of the temple of Solomon as its root, in dependence on the sacred ark, for which there is early testimony, and which in the time of David, and also before it, was sheltered by a tent.
Author:
Julius Wellhausen
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Until the building of Solomon's temple the unity of worship according to it had, properly speaking, never had any existence; and, moreover, it is easy to read between the lines that even after that date it was more a pious wish than a practical demand.
Author:
Julius Wellhausen
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Solomon's temple also was designed to increase the attractiveness of the city of his residence.
Author:
Julius Wellhausen
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The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
Author:
Swami Vivekananda
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The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.
Author:
Sun Tzu
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If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high you'd laugh and say nothing that simple, but you've been told many times before messiah's point you to the door though no one's got the guts to leave the temple.
Author:
Peter Townsend
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Tower Records is like a temple to me. I'll stay there for hours. Nobody can shop for records with me. It drives them out of their minds.
Author:
Billy Thornton
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The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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I'm as anxious as any viewer would be to see what Temple is going to do next. All I know is that in the second half of the season, he's going to have more sexual tension developing. And it's a great cast - they're all Broadway actors except for me. I aspire to that.
Author:
Sean Thomas
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From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.
Author:
Rabindranath Tagore
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Now people all across America are starting to believe in America again. We are coming back, back to the heights of greatness, back to America's proud role as a temple of justice and a champion of peace.
Author:
Theodore Sorensen
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The Temple will not be completed until every living stone is there. And then what? The next thing will be that which our Masonic friends make so much of, and which we make so much of namely: the glorification of the temple.
Author:
Charles Russell
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The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.
Author:
Carl Rowan
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A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol, a Jew clearly without a home, just the object itself, like a glass or an apple.
Author:
Philip Roth
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The temple of Ceres should be in a solitary spot out of the city, to which the public are not necessarily led but for the purpose of sacrificing to her.
Author:
Marcus Pollio
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Anybody who has been seriously engaged is scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'
Author:
Max Planck
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I think Gore does have to worry. He is tied to Bill Clinton. We know that there were telephone calls that he made from his office. We know that there were visits to the Buddhist temple.
Author:
Barbara Olson
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My wife and I are affiliated with a temple here in Los Angeles. We feel very close to the congregation and to the rabbi, who happens to be my wife's cousin and who I admire greatly. I talk to him regularly but I consider myself more spiritual than religious.
Author:
Leonard Nimoy
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If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led there. You can't escape it.
Author:
Ben Nicholson
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One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man.
Author:
John Muir
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I now resolved to go to bed early, with a firm purpose of also rising early the next day to revisit this charming walk; for I thought to myself, I have now seen this temple of the modern world imperfectly; I have seen it only by moonlight.
Author:
Karl Moritz
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Even though I grew up as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn where we ate Syrian food and went to temple, it was still America.
Author:
Isaac Mizrahi
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God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred temple of His godhead, by the laws of His mysterious wisdom.
Author:
Giovanni Mirandola
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This is a gift. This is a gift from God. It's really like the old Biblical passage that talks about your body being a temple. That's not to say that I've never done anything but I've never abused myself. Never gone over the top for a long period of time.
Author:
Teena Marie
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Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.
Author:
Thomas Macaulay
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This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
Author:
Dalai Lama
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When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus.
Author:
Lactantius
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There's an air of mystery around the Masons, but the reality is that they're mostly a bunch of veterans getting drunk in a lodge that they've built to look like a temple. It's just a bunch of guys trying to get away from their wives.
Author:
Jimmy Kimmel
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I doubt if the public thought of me as Christ when they next saw me as Temple Houston on television.
Author:
Jeffrey Hunter
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The temple of art is built in words.
Author:
J. Holland
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Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.
Author:
Katharine Hepburn
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There's been periods of broadcasts in the past where you could see all ages of entertainers, ranging from George Burns to Shirley Temple. That's not the condition now.
Author:
Merle Haggard
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Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom.
Author:
Ruth Gordon
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Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.
Author:
Khalil Gibran
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I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
Author:
Khalil Gibran
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The Temple of Diana is in the vicinity of the fountain, which has given rise to the conjecture that it originally constituted a portion of the ancient baths.
Author:
Marguerite Gardiner
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The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
Author:
Benjamin Franklin
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The Lord showed me, so that I did see clearly, that he did not dwell in these temples which men had commanded and set up, but in people's hearts... his people were his temple, and he dwelt in them.
Author:
George Fox
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Shirley Temple had charisma as a child. But it cleared up as an adult.
Author:
Totie Fields
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The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men.
Author:
Desiderius Erasmus
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Where there is no temple there shall be no homes.
Author:
T. Eliot
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Haiti itself was also photographed, some of the streets, some of the mountains, rivers, streams, etc. were photographed before talking with me about how I felt about Haiti. Then the camera went to our voodoo temple and saw a serious ceremony, a real ceremony.
Author:
Katherine Dunham
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I go to temple a lot less than I would like because when I do, people still look at me as if they think it's a publicity stunt.
Author:
Sammy Davis, Jr.
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God gave me a great body and it's my duty to take care of my physical temple.
Author:
Jean Damme
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The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.
Author:
Calvin Coolidge
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Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
Author:
Charles Colton
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America, the temple of invention and industry, doesn't make things anymore.
Author:
Nick Clooney
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I have a little history. I met Stone Temple Pilots, and their guitar player was a huge Extreme fan. Somewhere down the road, Extreme made its statement.
Author:
Gary Cherone
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God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.
Author:
Chanakya
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I had a bat mitzvah, was confirmed, went to Jewish summer camp, I go to temple for the High Holy Days. I think, like most people in their early 20s, I kind of strayed away from it. I think once I have a family I'll be back into it.
Author:
Lizzy Caplan
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I would have the Constitution torn in shreds and scattered to the four winds of heaven. Let us destroy the Constitution and build on its ruins the temple of liberty. I have brothers in slavery. I have seen chains placed on their limbs and beheld them captive.
Author:
William Brown
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Live are a really good band. I like Stone Temple Pilots, Radiohead I love. Even Oasis.
Author:
Nuno Bettencourt
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Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb the steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar?
Author:
James Beattie
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Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.
Author:
Charles Baudelaire
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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
Author:
Matsuo Basho
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They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.
Author:
Tallulah Bankhead
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But in Japan, there's nothing like that, since the temple is made of wood. The divine spirit inside the building is eternal, so the enclosure doesn't have to be.
Author:
Tadao Ando
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In a jazz atmosphere, the audience members were so quiet and respectful of the musicians that you felt you were almost part of a meeting at a church or a temple, where everyone was completely in tune with the sermon and what the whole event was about.
Author:
David Amram
