"What we buy belongs to us only when the price is forgotten."

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Source : "Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms". Book by Elizabeth Bibesco, 1951.

Elizabeth Bibesco

#Forgotten Quotes

“Hollywood views regular people as children, and they think they're the smart ones who need to tell the idiots out there how to be.”
“The peoples of Yugoslavia do not want Fascism. They do not want a totalitarian regime, they do not want to become slaves of the German and Italian financial oligarchy as they never wanted to become reconciled to the semi-colonial dependence imposed on them by the so-called Western democracies after the first imperialist war.”

Source : "Tito: A Biography". Book by Jasper Ridley, 1994.
“Where have all the good men gone, and where are all the gods? Where's the street-wise Hercules, to fight the rising odds?”

Source : Song: Holding Out for a Hero, 1986
“Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives.”
“Peace can be a lens through which you see the world. Be it. Live it. Radiate it out. Peace is an inside job.”
“Her mother was a cultivated woman - she was born in a greenhouse”
“Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn't there.”
“Most people don't realize that it's not just minorities who don't do well in science and engineering - quite frankly, you're talking about Americans.”

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