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When Fashion hath once Established, what Folly or craft began, Custom makes it Sacred, and 'twill be thought impudence or madness, to contradict or question it.

When Fashion hath once Established, what Folly or craft began, Custom makes it Sacred, and 'twill be thought impudence or madness, to contradict or question it.

John Locke (1728). “Two Treatises of Government: In the Former the False Principles & Foundation of Sir Robert Filmer & His Followers, are Detected & Overthrown; the Latter is an Essay Concerning the True Original, Extent & End of Civil Government”, p.49

Time does not become sacred to us until we have lived it.

John Burroughs (1902). “The Writings of John Burroughs: Literary values and other papers”

The laws of physics that we regard as 'sacred,' as immutable, are anything but.

John Archibald Wheeler (2010). “Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics”, p.298, W. W. Norton & Company

No sacred fane requires us to submit to insult.

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Torquato Tasso, III. 3. 191, 1922.

The sacred pint alone can unbind the tongue.

James Joyce (2013). “Four Novels by James Joyce”, p.32, eBookIt.com

Life is precious. Life is sacred. And it ought so to be observed.

"SUNDAY INTERVIEW - Musings of the Main Mormon / Gordon B. Hinckley, `president, prophet, seer and revelator' of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, sits at the top of one of the world's fastest-growing religions". Interview with Don Lattin, www.sfgate.com. April 13, 1997.

Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.

Georges Bataille (1985). “Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939”, p.119, U of Minnesota Press

Against her foes Religion well defends Her sacred truths, but often fears her friends.

George Crabbe, John Crabbe (1834). “The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes”, p.43

To this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.

David McCullough (2011). “David McCullough American History E-book Box Set: John Adams, 1776, Truman, The Course of Human Events”, p.556, Simon and Schuster