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I'm only interested in rites of passage stories.
Pete Townshend / Musician
Passages
Rite
Stories
Passage
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Bigamy is the only crime where two rites make a wrong.
Bob Hope / Comedian
Comedy
Crime
Funny Marriage
Two
Wrong
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It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel.
Robert Hughes / Art Critic
Travel
Cathedrals
Dedicated
Secular
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Harassment is one of puberty's darkest, most unreported rites of passage.
Rachel Simmons / Author
Harassment
Puberty
Darkest
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I like books that explore identity and youth culture or rites of passage.
Emily Weiss /
Youth Culture
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To me rites of passage through life, that's a wonderful, beautiful thing.
Lance Henriksen / Actor
Beautiful
Passages
Wonderful
Life Beautiful Me
Beautiful Thing
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Doing the Five Tibetan Rites exercises every day - it makes me feel at home wherever I am.
Ludovico Einaudi / Pianist
Five
Tibetan
Home Me Day
Home I Am Me
Home Me I Am
Every Day
Exercises
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Wherever
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There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.
Niccolo Machiavelli / Historian
Religion
Contempt
Country
Decay
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Held
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Surer
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I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.
Aeschylus / Dramatist
Misery
Purifying
Schooled
Silence
Speech
Proper
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Especially these days where everything is so polite and so proper, I think that rites of passage are good.
Emile Hirsch / Actor
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Days
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It amazes me that the most Christian funerals are the most barbaric funeral rites of passage that are celebrated anywhere in the world.
Steve Earle / Singer-Songwriter
Barbaric
Christian
Funeral
Amazes
Anywhere
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Rooting from the sidelines is the most democratic of sporting rites: no skyboxes, no tickets required, just an unabashed will to holler and wave.
Nancy Gibbs / Essayist
Sidelines
Tickets
Wave
Required
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Rooting
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Mysteries, like the Masonic rites, are ones parents and elders are sworn not to reveal to the uninitiated, which include all children. And so we sought for signs.
Anthony Hecht / Poet
Children
Elders
Masonic
Parent
Include
Mysteries
Reveal
Rites
Signs
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Sworn
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One of the traditional rites of passage for political candidates is the revelation of financial status - a catechism-like recital of money mistakes made and debts owed.
Stacey Abrams /
Candidates
Financial
Traditional
Mistakes
Debts
Owed
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Revelation
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Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone.
Guru Nanak / Sikh Guru
Bliss
Faithful
Heavenly
Offspring
Oneself
Religious
Wife
Ancestors
Due
Depend
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O blessed Saviour, give me grace like Thee, to make Religion my first, and chiefest care, and devoutly to observe, all solemn times, and all holy Rites, which relate to Thy worship.
Thomas Ken /
Blessed
Give Me
Giving
Grace
Holy
Relate
Saviour
Solemn
Thee
Worship
Devoutly
Observe
Rites
Thy
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In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual.
William Robertson Smith /
Religion
May
Savages
Superstitions
Terror
Dictate
Magical
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Savage
Tribe
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In course of time, religion came with its rites invoking the aid of good spirits which were even more powerful than the bad spirits, and thus for the time being tempered the agony of fears.
Paul P. Harris / Attorney
Agony
Powerful
Time Good Religion
Course
Fears
Invoking
Rites
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Tempered
Thus
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To people of my generation, the picture show was really another dimension - sensual, whimsical. No uniforms or collective rites, but a place where little boys like me could laugh and feel free.
Federico Fellini / Film Director
My Generation
Sensual
Uniforms
Whimsical
Picture
Me Free People
Collective
Dimension
Generation
Laugh
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The quarrels and divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was because the religion of the heathen consisted rather in rites and ceremonies than in any constant belief.
Francis Bacon / Former Lord Chancellor
Belief
Constant
Heathen
Quarrels
Unknown
Ceremonies
Divisions
Evils
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Religious phenomena are naturally arranged in two fundamental categories: beliefs and rites. The first are states of opinion, and consist in representations; the second are determined modes of action.
Emile Durkheim / Sociologist
Action
Categories
Determined
Opinion
Religious
States
Two
Naturally
Arranged
Beliefs
Consist
Phenomena
Fundamental
Modes
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Second
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The mystery at the center of 'Burial Rites' is not who killed whom on the night of March 13, 1828. It is the mystery each of us encounters: Can we every truly know another? Can we ever truly know ourselves?
Hannah Kent / Writer
Burial
Encounters
March
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I've been a huge cricket fan since my teens, and I often used to go down to St. Helen's in Swansea in the summer. To me, it was like a 'rites of passage' experience to have the freedom of St. Helen's cricket ground.
Steffan Rhodri /
Cricket
Summer
Teens
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
Hannah Kent / Writer
Burial
Extraordinary
Iceland
Ineffable
Landscape
Ongoing
Particular
Constantly
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Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.
J. G. Ballard / Novelist
Humor
Contentment
Drunkenness
Innocent
Novel
Perpetual
Statements
Thinking
Writing
Bank
Chronic
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I've always been a fan of melody and emotional melancholy, whether it was Rites of Spring or Tears for Fears or Neil Young. If I hear a song that has a sweet melody, I'm a sucker for it, whether it's Linkin Park or Little Richard.
Dave Grohl / Musician
Emotional
Melancholy
Song
Spring
Sucker
Sweet
Tears
Fan
Fears
Hear
Richard
Neil
Neil Young
Park
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I don't know how old I was when I first started going to shows, maybe 14 or 15, but very quickly, I discovered Dischord Records in D.C. and loved all the music on that catalog. I was a big Rites of Spring fan, Minor Threat, of course.
Beto O'rourke /
Records
Spring
Fan
Loved
Catalog
Course
Discovered
Maybe
Minor
Quickly
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Shortly after her feeding tube is removed, Terri Schiavo receives the Catholic ceremony of last rites. Michael Schiavo stays in a room down the hall. He remains at his wife's side throughout the day, except when her immediate family comes to see Terri.
Mark Fuhrman / Detective
Catholic
Ceremony
Feeding
Remains
Michael
Except
Hall
Immediate
Receives
Rites
Stays
Terri
Throughout
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I think it is quite remarkable actually that Pope Benedict has a sense of the variety of ways in which it is possible to be a Catholic. I think he is more comfortable with a plurality of expressions of Catholicism in different rites, traditions than many of us are.
Vincent Nichols /
Catholic
Pope
Remarkable
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Expressions
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You know the fairy-tale drill, especially from the Disney versions: the heroines endure awful stuff in rites of passage that lead to a joyous resolution of, usually, marriage to a prince. 'Into the Woods' follows that template, then asks, 'What happens after Happy Ever After?'
Richard Corliss / Editor
Marriage
Endure
Ever After
Heroines
Joyous
Resolution
Versions
Woods
Disney
Drill
Follows
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Civic poetry is public poetry. It is political poetry. It is about the hard stuff of life: money, crime, gender, corporate excess, racial injustice. It gives expression not just to our rites but also to our problems and even our values; these poems are not about rustic vacations.
Alissa Quart /
Corporate
Crime
Excess
Injustice
Rustic
Civic
Racial
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When I was growing up in Nigeria - and I shouldn't say Nigeria, because that's too general, but in Afikpo, the Igbo part of the country where I'm from - there were always rites of passage for young men. Men were taught to be men in the ways in which we are not women; that's essentially what it is.
Chris Abani / Author
Nigeria
Taught
Men Women Always
General
Essentially
Women Men Country
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Young Men
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Since most of 'Mean Girls' consists of the outsider Cady observing the tribal rites of her new setting and laying it all out in narration, this movie is just like home for the meticulous and ruthless deadpan that Ms. Fey has perfected for the satirical 'S.N.L.' newscast in which she and Jimmy Fallon are the anchors.
Elvis Mitchell / Film Critic
Anchors
Fey
Jimmy
Meticulous
Narration
Observing
Ruthless
Satirical
Setting
Consists
Ms
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The nature of most Covid-19 deaths, in hospital or a care home away from family and friends, has made it worse for the people they leave behind. In the absence of the traditional rites and rituals of funeral and mourning - the opportunity to just share a hug - the process of bereavement has been made even harder to bear.
Luciana Berger /
Absence
Bereavement
Family And Friends
Funeral
Harder
Hug
Mourning
Process
Share
Traditional
Bear
Behind
Deaths
Leave
For The People
Hospital
Rites
Worse
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