"I am currently in Haiti to help the Haitian people in their reconstruction."

-- Jean-Claude Duvalier

#People Quotes #Haiti Quotes #Helping Quotes

“We are not downhearted, but we cannot understand what is happening to our neighbours.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 142-44, speech at Southwick (Jan. 15, 1906), 1922.
“A life without a cause is a life without effect.”
“Shock equals discovery, and if I narrated my past, you'd be pretty grossed out too, I bet - same as if you narrated yours. Aren't we all composed of our past mistakes? Isn't that part of emerging into an adult awareness of the world?”

Source : Interview with Samuel Cohen, logger.believermag.com. September 11, 2012.
“My sons are precious to me and I have tried incredibly hard to strike the right balance between work and home life while being acutely aware that I haven't always got it right.”
“Looking about I see no cherry blossoms And no crimson leaves A straw-thatched hut by a bay In the autumn dusk.”
“What we philosophers can do is just correct the questions.”
“Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.”
“"And my father didn't have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didn't have black quarterbacks, and I don't think I could have made it in basketball, because I was only 5â€² 11". So I just picked baseball."”

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