In Religion
- There are 100 blasts of the Shofar heard in the service of Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year.
- A religious Jew is expected to utter at least 100 blessings daily.
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“The religion of England is part of good-breeding. When you see on the continent the well-dressed Englishman come into his ambassador’s chapel and put his face for silent prayer into his smooth-brushed hat, you cannot help feeling how much national pride prays with him, and the religion of a gentleman.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The stallion and his mare,
unbridled, with arrow-pattern,
are worked on.
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—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)