"It's like if you plant something in the concrete and if it grow and the rose petal got all kinda scratches and marks, you ain't gonna say 'damn, look at all the scratches and marks on the rose that grew from the concrete..' you gonna be like 'DAMN! a ROSE grew from the CONCRETE'"

Tupac Shakur
(we kick it over on LT)

"There is no excellent beauty that hath not
some strangeness in the proportion"

Francis Bacon


thanks to "TheBookImp" at LT!

“As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.”


-Oscar Wilde


In an effort to be thorough with Wilde’s quote, I used my well-thumbed (well-clicked?) Thesaurus:

wicked – bad, wrong, evil; sinful, depraved, fiendish;atrocious
fascination – attraction, appeal, allure, enticement, magnetism
vulgar – crude, rough, tasteless; common, improper,unfortunate
popular – accepted, admired, traditional, expected; prevalent, widespread