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This is an abstraction for standardizing blockquotes.

Example:

 Henry van Til wrote:
 <nowiki>{{:Quote|Culture is not something neutral, without ethical or religious connotation. Human achievement is not purposeless but seeks to achieve certain ends, which are either good or bad. Since man is a moral being, his culture cannot be a-moral. Because man is a religious being, his culture too, must be religiously oriented. There is no pure culture in the sense of being neutral religiously, or without positive or negative value ethically.<ref>Henry van Til, ''Calvinistic Concept of Culture'', 27</ref>}}</nowiki>


which produces:

Henry van Til wrote:
{{:Quote|Culture is not something neutral, without ethical or religious connotation. Human achievement is not purposeless but seeks to achieve certain ends, which are either good or bad. Since man is a moral being, his culture cannot be a-moral. Because man is a religious being, his culture too, must be religiously oriented. There is no pure culture in the sense of being neutral religiously, or without positive or negative value ethically.<ref>Henry van Til, '''Calvinistic Concept of Culture''', 27</ref>}}


Notice that the <nowiki><ref></nowiki> tag will create an automatically numbered footnote at the bottom of the page.