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Famous quotes containing the words holy and/or cross:

    “How holy people look when they are sea-sick!”
    —Samuel Butler (1835–1902)

    “We are no longer in a state of growth; we are in a state of excess. We are living in a society of excrescence.... The boil is growing out of control, recklessly at cross purposes with itself, its impacts multiplying as the causes disintegrate.”
    —Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)