"The Spider as an Artist Has never been employed- Though his surpassing Merit Is freely certified."

-- Emily Dickinson

#Artist Quotes #Spiders Quotes #Merit Quotes

“I can't imagine something being beautiful at this point in history if it's destroying the planet or causing children to get sick. How can anything be beautiful if it's not ecologically intelligent at this point?”

Source : "William McDonough: Godfather of Green". WNYC Studio 360, March 18, 2008.
“My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.”

Source : 1942 The Skin of Our Teeth, act 1.
“People ask me where I go to get away and I say, 'home'”
“Do you believe your heart to be, indeed, so hardened, that you can look without emotion on the suffering, to which you would condemn me?”

Source : Ann Radcliffe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ann Radcliffe (Illustrated)”, p.802, Delphi Classics
“There may have been somewhere, as a few eighteenth-century philosophers dreamed, a group of peaceful men who got together one evening after work and drew up a Social Contract to form the state. But nobody has been able to find an actual record of it. Practically all the governments whose origins are historically established were the result of conquest-of one tribe by another, one city by another, one people by another. Of course there have been constitutional conventions, but they merely changed the working rules of governments already in being.”
“If you had ever heard my album you would know that I could never consider the music business!”
“The doctrine of a material hell in its effect was to chill and deaden the sympathies, predispose men to inflict suffering, and to ***** the march of civilization.”
“Well, human rights defenders, freedom of speech advocates, lawyers that we spoke to said this is really an expansion. After the military ouster of Egypt's unpopular, but elected Islamist president in 2013, we saw political opponents being arrested by the thousands, really. Then we saw a popular comedian go off the air out of fear of retribution.”

Source : "Egypt Expands Crackdown On Freedom Of Expression, Advocates Say". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. December 30, 2015.

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