"Genuinely great humour recognises the world it's describing and yet we are also called into question by it. That's what great art should do. That's what great philosophy should do. The one thing about humour is that this is an everyday practice that does this."

-- Simon Critchley

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“I'm an unpure purist, something like that.”
“In the life of the spirit there is no ending that is not a beginning.”
“A quota is always something artificial that can only last for a certain period of time.”
“It was the separation of powers upon which the framers placed their hopes for the preservation of the people's liberties. Despite this heritage, the congress has been in too many cases more than willing to walk away from its constitutional powers.”
“I play a lot of charity golf mainly. I'm a bandit 18 if I play two or three times a week.”

Source : "Small Talk: Eric Bristow". Interview with Nick Harper, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2003.
“Marriage includes a spouse, and often children. But the goal, center, and purpose of marriage is not self, spouse, or children. The ultimate goal of marriage and family is the glory of God. Only when marriage and family exist for God's glory - and not to serve as replacement idols - are we able to truly love and be loved. Remember, neither your child nor your husband (or wife) should be who you worship, but instead who you worship with.”
“I have divers times endeavoured to see and to know, what parts the Blood consists of; and at length I have observ'd, taking some Blood out of my own hand, that it consists of small round globuls driven through a Crystalline humidity or water.”
“He who does not at some time, with definite determination consent to the terribleness of life, or even exalt in it, never takes possession of the inexpressible fullness of the power of our existence.”

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