"There are many kinds of revelation. But the most powerful is the vision which transcends the mental boundary between life and non-life, and Scotland is a place where this sort of revelation often approaches. Staring into a Scottish landscape, I have often asked myself why--in spite of all appearances--bracken, rocks, man and sea are at some level one."

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Source : Neal Ascherson (2014). “Stone Voices: The Search For Scotland”, p.26, Granta Books

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“I have a Twitter, but I'm not a tweeter... if that really makes sense.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“All I'm saying is that there is a price to be paid at the sharp end.. environmentally and everywhere else.. for the food that is produced in a particular way.”
“You can't know if your values are being violated if you're ambiguous about what they are”
“The light that has guided us is still unquenched, and the causes that have carried us so far in the van of free nations have not spent their power; because the story of the future is written in the past, and that which hath been is the same thing that shall be.”
“I was just ice skating. I had no concept of that. In those days you couldn't see the judges. I was this little person on the ice and they were just people that would stand around the boards.”

Source : "Gold Medal Figure Skater". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 17, 2000.
“Sen. Frist has every right, and indeed the duty, to see that every presidential nominee for the Federal bench at every level gets an up or down vote.”
“I don't know a more irreligious attitude, one more utterly bankrupt of any human content, than one which permits childred to be destroyed.”

Source : Daniel Berrigan, Nhá̂t Hạnh (Thích) (1975). “The Raft Is Not the Shore: Conversations Toward a Buddhist-Christian Awareness”, Beacon Press (MA)
“We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.”

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