"E'en Beauty mourns in her decaying bower, That Time upon her angel brow should set His crooked autograph, and mar the jet Of glossy locks. Lo! how her chaplet green, The ***** frost and the canker worm destroy. Decay's dull film obscures those matchless eyes."

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Source : Isaac McLellan (1830). “The Fall of the Indian: With Other Poems”, p.25

Isaac McLellan

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“I like playing characters that are complex, that are intriguing, that come from left field, that do things that are unexpected. I don't like people who just follow one line and that's it - that's why I could never be in a sitcom, I don't think. They're not intriguing enough for me.”
“An odd contradiction, if the layman were correct in his unconscious assumption that an artist begins with reality and ends with art: the converse is true - to the degree that this dichotomy has any truth - the artist begins with art, and through it arrives at reality.”
“In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy.”

Source : William Irwin Thompson (1987). “Gaia, a Way of Knowing: Political Implications of the New Biology”, Inner Traditions International
“Anything lower than mid-six figures is not going to get me interested in that. And honestly, I just don't want to.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“I have a new horse. I get her to come to me from half a mile away. With just a simple call. That's because she knows that when she's with me, she's taken care of. She trusts me.”
“I've always been fond of the saying that when it comes to oversight and reform, the federal government does two things well: nothing and overreact.”

Source : "Darrell Issa Asks Business: Tell Me What To Change" by Nick Wing, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 4, 2011.
“When a tree, a natural product, is felled, is society put into possession of no greater produce than that of the mere labour of the woodman?”

Source : Jean Baptiste Say, Charles Robert Prinsep (1857). “A Treatise on Political Economy; Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth”, p.76
“But there's no way round it-commercial success is a mark of failure for a graffiti artist. We're not supposed to be embraced in that way. When you look at how society rewards so many of the wrong people, it's hard not to view financial reimbursement as a badge of self-serving mediocrity.”

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