"I know no class of my fellowmen, however just, enlightened, and humane, which can be wisely and safely trusted absolutely with the liberties of any other class."

-- Frederick Douglass

#Class Quotes #Liberty Quotes #Communism Quotes

“It is energy - the central element of which is will - that produces the miracle that is enthusiasm in all ages. Everywhere it is what is called force of character and the sustaining power of all great action”
“[Some] times I'd have sound but no image. When Patti [Smith] was singing with her guitar, or doing something amazing with her clarinet, I'd just mess around and record the sound. So we'd use those sounds as another layer in the film [Dream of Life].”
“I have learned that I am also a person who has to be able to go fishing whenever I can and for as long as I want to go. It is a silly thing, but there it is.”
“The body is a bundle of careful compromises.”

Source : Randolph M. Nesse, George C. Williams (2012). “Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine”, p.12, Vintage
“Photography is the act of "fixing" time, not of "expressing" the world. The camera is an inadequate tool for extracting a vision of the world or of beauty.”
“For a brief moment, I considered deconstructing the song and going down a cerebral road, but then I realized it would kill what is most powerful about it.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Mathematical physics is in the first place physics and it could not exist without experimental investigations.”

Source : Inaugural lecture for his professorship of mathematical physics at the University of Utrecht, 1913.
“Poor comfort all comfort: once what the mouse had spared Was enough, was delight, there where the heart was at home”

Source : Ruth Pitter (1969). “Collected poems”

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