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«When poets write about food it is usually celebratory. Food as the thing-in-itself, but also the thoughtful preparation of meals, the serving of meals, meals communally shared: a sense of the sacred in the profane.»
Author: Joyce Carol Oates
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celebratory, communally, meals, poets, profane, profaning, serving, shared, thing in itself, thoughtful, write about
«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.»
Author: Ludwig Feuerbach
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appearance, copy, fancy, prefers, profane, profaning, signified, These Days
«The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it»
«They shall therefore keep mine ordinance, lest they bear sin for it, and die therefore, if they profane it: I the LORD do sanctify them.»
«They shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy unto his God.»
«Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes; / That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name: / And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.»
Author: Bible
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altar, condemned, go in, His father, Holy Father, Holy Name, House of, In the House, maid, meek, meekest, pair, pant, pledge, profane, sold, thereof, transgressions, turn away
«The ecclesiastical writers, who, in the heat of religious faction, are apt to despise the profane virtues of sincerity and moderation.»
Author: Edward Gibbon
(Historian)
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apt, ecclesiastical, faction, factions, heat, moderation, profane, profaning, sincerity
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