"Drink a health to the wonders of the western world, the pirates, preachers, poteen-makers, with the jobbing jockies; parching peelers, and the juries fill their stomachs selling judgments of the English law."

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Source : 1907 The Playboy of the Western World, act 2.

John Millington Synge

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“I didn't get any college credit for playing in Vampire Weekend, you know. So it was definitely an early hurdle to get over with C.T. winning and us losing to C.T.. But I think sorta since then, in the four years since, we've managed to pave everything over.”
“I still do miss the freedom to play any kind of character I wanted to play.”

Source : "The Kids In The Hall, part 1". Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 30, 2004.
“There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it.”
“My daddy left home when I was three and he didn't leave much to Ma and me, just this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze.”
“It is only in the shadows, when some fresh wave, truly original, truly creative, breaks upon the shore, that there will be a rediscovery of the West.”
“Animism is far from primitive, nor is it about pre-modernity because animism does not serve as a precursor to modernity. Rather animism is one of the many vitally present and contemporary other-than-modern ways of being human.”

Source : Graham Harvey (2005). “Animism”, p.21, Columbia University Press
“I kind of just lost track of laps. I couldn't hear a split. It was just so loud in here everyone was going nuts. I sort of felt like I was a little tired and I said, the people in front of me seem like they are falling off the lead pack a little bit. I should probably make a move. I hear ding, ding, ding, ding and I thought "oh crap! I've really got to go, I've got a lot left.”
“Take notice not only of the mercies of God, but of God in the mercies. Mercies are never so savoury as when they savour a Saviour.”

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