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“I am one of the writers who wish to create serious works of literature which dissociate themselves from those novels which are mere reflections of the vast consumer cultures of Tokyo and the subcultures of the world at large.”

World Culture Literature Wish Novel Serious Reflection Mere Consumers Tokyo Subculture Consumer Culture Serious Work

Author:Kenzaburo Oe

“Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.”

Faces Church Serious Reflection Eras Posts Decline Christendom Irrelevance

Author:Alan Hirsch

“Ritual is the most primitive reflection of serious thought, a slow deposit, as it were, of people's imaginative insight into life.”

People Serious Reflection Insight Ritual Primitive Imaginative Deposits

Author:Susanne Katherina Langer

“Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the heart”

Men Heart Understanding Animal Grief Sadness Serious Habit Reflection Misery Grieving

Book:John Adams: Writings from the New Nation, 1784-1826

Source: John Adams: Writings from the New Nation, 1784-1826

“When the evening was over, Anne could not be amused…nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point in which her own conduct would ill bear examination.”

Helping Serious Bears Reflection Ill Evening Preacher Examination Eloquent Amused Moralist Anne Elliot

Book:Persuasion In Modern English

Source: Persuasion In Modern English

“Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds.”

Mind Half Serious Reflection Glasses

Author:Mary Astell

“Telling the truth ... is not solely a matter of moral character; it is also a matter of correct appreciation of real situations and of serious reflection upon them.”

Real Matter Character Truth Situation Moral Serious Truth Is Reflection Appreciation Telling The Truth Moral Character

Book:Ethics

Source: Ethics

“We used to be a source of fuel; we are increasingly becoming a sink. These supplies of foreign liquid fuel are no doubt vital to our industry, but our ever-increasing dependence upon them ought to arouse serious and timely reflection. The scientific utilisation, by liquefaction, pulverisation and other processes, or our vast and magnificent deposits of coal, constitutes a national object of prime importance.”

“The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?...We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal...I am a reflection of what I sing. Sometimes I have to get serious because the things I've been through are serious...The way I see it, rock n' roll is folk music.”

Way Trying Sometimes Wanted Desire Rocks Serious Reflection Ideals Essence Harmony Folks Communicate Songwriting Rock N Roll Fulfilled Folk Music Peace And Harmony Outdated

Author:Robert Plant

“Michael Jackson is an extremely productive ethnographer, a serious reader of phenomenological and existential philosophy, and a remarkable writer at a level that one rarely sees in anthropology. Lifeworlds, unsurprisingly, is no exception. The several essays included here fit into an impressive whole that set out a compelling case for a type of ethnography of which Jackson is one of the masters. The writing is strong and the critical reflections impressive. This book defines an approach to anthropology that is resonant enough to challenge the leading models of our time.”

“Chess is difficult, it demands work, serious reflection and zealous research.”

Difficult Serious Demand Research Reflection Chess Zealous

Author:Wilhelm Steinitz

“I am a reflection of what I sing. Sometimes I have to get serious because the things Ive been through are serious.”

Sometimes Serious Reflection

Author:Robert Plant

“A serious life, by definition, is a life one reflects on, a life one tries to make sense of and bear witness to. Truth in a memoir is achieved not through a recital of actual events; it is achieved when the reader comes to believe that the writer is working hard to engage with the experience at hand. What happened to the writer is not what matters; what matters is the large sense that the writer is able to make of what happened.”

“It has always been a source of serious reflection and sincere regret with me that the youth of the United States should be sent to foreign countries for the purpose of education. Although there are many who escape the danger of contracting principles unfavorable to republican governments, yet we ought to deprecate the hazard attending ardent and susceptible minds from being too strongly and too early prejudiced in favor of other political systems, before they are capable of appreciating their own.”

Source: The Writings of George Washington: pt. IV. Letters official and private, from the beginning of his presidency to the end of his life: (v. 10) May, 1789-November, 1794. (v. 11) November, 1794-December, 1799

“The priest knows, as every one knows, that there is no longer any "God," or any "sinner," or any "Saviour" that "free will" and the "moral order of the world" are lies : serious reflection, the profound self conquest of the spirit, allow no man to pretend that he does not know it.”

Knows Men World Doe Self Spirit Lying Religion Order Moral Serious Reflection Profound Sinner Priests Free Will Conquest Saviour

Book:Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1

Source: Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1

“Chess is not for the faint-hearted; it absorbs a person entirely. To get to the bottom of this game, he has to give himself up into slavery. Chess is difficult, it demands work, serious reflection and zealous research.”

Giving Persons Success Games Difficult Serious Demand Research Reflection Slavery Bottom Chess Hearted Zealous Faint Hearted

Author:Wilhelm Steinitz