"The present is our own; but while we speak, We cease from its possession, and resign The stage we tread on, to another race, As vain, and gay, and mortal as ourselves."

-- Thomas Love Peacock

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“The resources of the Deity cannot be so meagre, that, in order to create a human being endowed with reason, he must change a monkey into a man.”

Source : Louis Agassiz (1863). “Methods of Study in Natural History”, p.4, Ayer Company Pub
“Art is about the edges and the sharp corners and those places are not conducive to activism, which is about putting on a gloss.”
“The government will take the fairest of names, but the worst of realities--mob rule.”
“Dreams are the directions to the rest of your life!”
“Life is made up of circles ... Life is not a straight line ... And sometimes we circle back to a past time. But we are not the same. We are changed forever.”

Source : Patricia Maclachlan (2009). “Baby”, p.108, Yearling
“Democracy works when people claim it as their own”
“It's a common theme around the city of New Orleans; we're resilient people because we have to be. We love this place with all of our heart and all of our soul and I just wanted to try to do something that I could to help make it better.”

Source : "New Orleans Mayor-elect Mitch Landrieu". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. April 26, 2010.
“I began to explore America in more general terms. I really started this work in 2009. I got the bulk of it done as I was easing out of Disco Night.”

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