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"Government cannot be religious and self-assertive at the same time. Religious experience needs a spontaneity which laws inevitably suppress. And you cannot govern without laws. Your laws eventually must replace morality, replace conscience, replace even the religion by which you think to govern. Sacred ritual must spring from praise and holy yearnings which hammer out a significant morality. Government, on the other hand, is a cultural organism particularly attractive to doubts, questions and contentions. I see the day coming when ceremony must take the place of faith and symbolism replaces morality."
Lady Jessica, Dune Messiah

Phoenix Wright: Everyone I've met so far seems deeply religious.
Ahlbi Ur'gaid: Of course we are! After all, Khura'in is also known as the Land of Prayer. It's said that we Khura'inese spend an average of fifteen hours a day in prayer.
Phoenix: What?! F-Fifteen...?!
Ahlbi: From the moment we wake, to the moment we fall asleep, our hearts are always in prayer.
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Spirit of Justice, Case 6-3: "The Rite of Turnabout"

We are the Priests of the Temples of Syrinx
Our great computers fill the hallowed halls
We are the Priests of the Temples of Syrinx
All the gifts of life are held within our walls.
The Priests of the Temples of Syrinx, Rush, "2112"

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