"Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment."

-- Samuel Gompers

#People Quotes #Dangerous Quotes #Experiments Quotes

“Though he had very little Latin beyond "Cave canem," he had, as a young dog, devoured Shakespeare (in a tasty leather binding).”
“Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction.”

Source : Paul Gauguin, Robert John Goldwater (1972). “Paul Gauguin”, Harry N Abrams Inc
“I have felt for a long time that I want to return back to being a singer-songwriter for a period of time. I will go back to Broadway. But I want to make the right choices about why to go back and when I am ready to go back.”
“People fear the unforeseen and the unseen. Truth be told we all fear the unseen.”
“Describing some kinds of feelings comes across as too excessive in the first person. If you put it in the third person, you're taking a little bit of a distance, and that way it becomes more apprehensible to a viewer. You're always riding this fine line of risking saying too much, do you know what I mean? When you feel you're in that area, if you shift the address a little bit it can alter it.”
“Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.”
“...in place of the Old Bottom Line of money and power, a New Bottom Line of Love and Generosity is possible. People of all faiths need to shape a political and social movement that reaffirms the most generous, peace-oriented, social justice-committed, and loving truths of the spiritual heritage of the human race.”
“Where there is no mathematics, there is no freedom.”

Source : Edward Frenkel (2014). “Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality”, p.5, Basic Books

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