"The march of intellect is proceeding at quick time; and if its progress be not accompanied by a corresponding improvement in morals and religion, the faster it proceeds, with the more violence will you be hurried down the road to ruin."

-- Robert Southey

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“The secret to keeping moving is keeping moving.”
“You never do things thinking you will make a big statement. It just happens sometimes and you are lucky.”
“Sport is a product of human culture. America seems to need football at this state of our social development. When you get ninety million people watching a single game on television, it ... shows you that people need something to identify with.”
“What's important is how we use our time on this earth, not how conspicuously we give our money away. What's important is the energy and courage we are willing to expend reversing entropy, battling cynicism, suffering and challenging mediocre minds, staring down those who would trample our dreams, taking a stand for magic, and advancing the potential of the human race.”
“When I go biking, I am mentally far far away from civilization. The world is breaking someone else's heart.”
“Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.”
“All angry persons are to be treated, by the prudent, as children.”
“When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.”

Source : "Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera". Book by Anne Carson, www.newyorker.com. 2005.

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