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Ceremony is the smoke of friendship. - Chinese Proverb

Ceremony is the smoke of friendship. – Chinese Proverb

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Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for the rest of his life. – Chinese Proverb

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Ritual, Ceremony
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A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man. – E. M. Forster

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Ritual, Ceremony

Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic. – Derek Walcott

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Ritual, Ceremony

Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books. – George Gurdjieff

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It is superstitious to put ones hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them. – Blaise Pascal

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Ritual, Ceremony

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It is at a fair that man can be drunk forever on liquor, love, or fights; at a fair that your front pocket can be picked by a trotting horse looking for sugar, and your hind pocket by a thief looking for his fortune. – E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White

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