I had no idea that "sop" could stand for so many things, as in
http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/SOPAnd if the quotation is to be
new, then you probably should just make one up.
Good luck on your quest.
"Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world."
~ Margaret Laurence, 1928-1987, Canadian author
The image cannot be dispossessed of a primordial freshness, which idea can never claim. An idea is derivative and tamed. The image is in the natural or wild state, and it has to be discovered there, not put there, obeying its own law and none of ours. We think we can lay hold of image and take it captive, but the docile captive is not the real image but only the idea, which is the image with its character beaten out of it.
~ John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974), U.S. poet, critic. The World’s Body, p. 115, Scribner (1938)
"When we say "science" we can either mean any manipulation of the inventive and organizing power of the human intellect: or we can mean such an extremely different thing as the religion of science, the vulgarized derivative from this pure activity . . ."
~ Wyndham Lewis (1882 - 1957) English author, painter, The Art of Being Ruled, "Revolution and Progress," ch. 1 (1926)
