Sameer Sewak

“As John Adams famously wrote during the American Revolution, “I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. Our sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain.” So maybe today they’re writing apps rather than studying poetry, but that’s an adjustment for the age.”
― Fareed Zakaria, In Defense of a Liberal Education

“Without self-discovery,” Hahn wrote, extending an idea of Nietzsche’s, “a person may still have self-confidence, but it is a self-confidence built on ignorance and it melts in the face of heavy burdens.”
― Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon

“The people who came were not always the ones who most needed to escape: they were the ones most capable of escaping.”
― Masha Gessen, The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy

“Hell has ways of permeating heaven’s membrane.”
― Rohinton Mistry, Family Matters