"The rich pearl of life, Soon moulders in its blackened urn, the tomb."

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Source : Isaac McLellan (1830). “The Fall of the Indian: With Other Poems”, p.23

Isaac McLellan

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“More and more teams are using almost exclusively the draft to build their teams. And that means you have younger players to develop in those key depth positions. Younger players are more susceptible to streaks than veterans. They go up, they go down.”
“Why do you always write poetry? Why do you not write prose? Prose is so much more difficult.”
“I don't believe a person has a style. What people have is a way of photographing what is inside them. What is there comes out.”
“If Putin and those around him had been smart enough to go in a different direction... The country was ready. The conditions were extremely favorable - with oil prices as high as they were, it was possible to do anything. It was possible to solidify democracy. After the Yeltsin years people began to think that democracy is a disaster, that democracy equals misery. Putin got a lucky break - and he used it the KGB way. He turned out to be a wily KGB man, not a wise statesman.”

Source : Source: www.thedailybeast.com
“How to get a seat at the table: 1. Be excellent. 2. Say a prayer. 3. Be available 4. Be you”
“I never promised you a rose garden.”
“I believe that the idea of the totality, the finality of the master-plan, is misguided. One should advocate a gradual transformation of public space, a metamorphic process, without relying on a hypothetical time in the future when everything will be perfect. The mistake of planners and architects is to believe that fifty years from now Alexanderplatz will be perfected. -p.197”

Source : Daniel Libeskind (1995). “Traces of the Unborn”, University of Michigan College of
“You know what, my faith is like this - when I die, I'm going to live with God forever and ever. But I believe He wants us to have a good life here on Earth.”

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