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sanctity

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The state or quality of being sacred or holy; holiness; saintliness; moral purity; godliness.

Sacredness; solemnity; inviolability; religious binding force; as, the sanctity of an oath.

A saint or holy being.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous. William Hazlitt

Love is large; love defies limits. People talk about the sanctity of love -- love is by definition sacred. Not some love between some people, but all love between all people. Jennifer Beals

Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life. Orrin Hatch

There is a strong religious commitment to the sanctity of human life, but, paradoxically, some of the most fervent protectors of microscopic stem cells are the most ardent proponents of the death penalty. Jimmy Carter

We have preachers and savants who dilate endlessly on the sanctity of family and childhood but who tolerate a system in which a casual observer can correlate a child's social origin with its physical well-being. Christopher Hitchens

The only thing that counts is the right to know, to speak, to think - that, and the sanctity of the courts. Otherwise it's not America. Edward R. Murrow

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