"Anticipate charity by preventing poverty; assist the reduced fellow man, either by a considerable gift or a sum of money or by teaching him a trade or by putting him in the way of business so that he may earn an honest livelihood and not be forced to the dreadful alternative of holding out his hand for charity. This is the highest step and summit of charity's golden ladder."

-- Maimonides

#Teaching Quotes #Men Quotes #Hands Quotes

“None of us is in a position to eliminate war, but it is our obligation to denounce it and expose it in all its hideousness. War leaves no victors, only victims.”
“Painting and illustration cannot be mixedâ€”one cannot merge from one into the other.”
“All the heroes of tomorrow are the heretics of today.”

Source : "A Tribute to Yip Harburg: The Man Who Put the Rainbow in The Wizard of Oz". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. November 25, 2004.
“I still break racquets, but now I do it in a positive way.”
“Equal treatment for children in unequal situations is not justice.”

Source : "California’s Gov. Brown blasts state, federal education policy" by Valerie Strauss, www.washingtonpost.com. January 24, 2013.
“When I do a mask, I do try to put a lot of character and a lot of expression into the sculpt.”
“Faced with what seems like an impossible task, a group of folks will do well to remember the African proverb: When spider webs unite they can tie up a lion.”
“Maybe I'm like acts of Congress or your favorite Chinese restaurant - you don't really want to know what's going on behind the door. I'm a real study in contrast, I expect, looking from without. But it adds up to what you get on stage.”

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