"Of what help is anyone who can only be approached with the right words?"

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Source : Elizabeth Bibesco (1951). “Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms”

Elizabeth Bibesco

#Helping Quotes

“War is the province of chance. in no other sphere of human activity must such a margin be left for this intruder. it increases the uncertainty of every circumstance and deranges the course of events.”
“When I write I simply follow my heart. And my flights of fantasy. It is not done with a conscious effort. I'm continually inspired and write reflexively.”
“We have to start looking at the world through women's eyes' how are human rights, peace and development defined from the perspective of the lives of women? It's also important to look at the world from the perspective of the lives of diverse women, because there is not single women's view, any more than there is a single men's view.”
“your 90MHz Pentium won't have any trouble doing arithmetic (except for certain divisions).”
“We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.”
“One thing that was very clear to me is that the young people in a place like Annawadi aren't tripping on caste the way their parents are. They know their parents have these old views.”

Source : "Finding 'Life, Death And Hope' In A Mumbai Slum". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. February 8, 2012.
“The time has come to return integrity, performance and dignity to New York and make it the Empire State once again.”
“I have more money now than I know what to do with.”

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