Sine populo (Latin for "without the people") is an expression that was used used in the Roman Rite liturgy to describe a Mass celebrated by a priest without a congregation.
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“Faultless honesty is a sine qua non of business life. Not alone the honesty according to the moral code and the Bible. When I speak of honesty I refer to the small, hidden, evasive meannesses of our natures. I speak of the honesty of ourselves to ourselves.”
—Alice Foote MacDougall (1867–1945)