"For with all our pretension to enlightenment, are we not now a talking, desultory, rather than a meditative generation?"

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Source : John Campbell Shairp (1871). “Culture and Religion in Some of Their Relations”, p.140

John Campbell Shairp

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“The reason to moderate is to avoid having to quit.”

Source : Jim Harrison (2007). “Off to the Side: A Memoir”, p.87, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“We're Mexi-cans not Mexi-can'ts.”
“I once heard someone say that the concept of moderation seems a little extreme, and tonight...I agree.”
“Look deep into the pupil stare into the black, you'll be able to see the soul what is it doingLaughing? Dancing? Crying? Screaming?”
“Summing it Up..."Where's a good place for dinner?" I asked. "There's the Brasserie Lipp on the Avenue St. Germaine," she said, "or La Coupole in Montmartre." "Not La Coupole," I said. "I've been there before. That's the place that's crowded and noisy and smells bad and everybody's rude as hell, isn't it?" "I think you just described France," she said.”
“I like to think that I'm a sort of poet for our times.”

Source : Carol Ann Duffy (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.122, Pan Macmillan
“If you ever see me at a boat show or at a car show, blow my head off.”
“I declare a holy war, my Moslem brothers! Murder the Jews! Murder them all.”

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