"Home is the best place when life begins to wobble."

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Source : Elizabeth von Arnim (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth von Arnim (Illustrated)”, p.1042, Delphi Classics

Elizabeth von Arnim

“You have to open up to the world and learn optimism...Contentment with the past, happiness with the present, and hope for the future. Learned optimisim.”
“I'm just there to do interviews and stuff, because we have about 40 media people there, so it's a very, very busy week. But that's the only time. I did marry, I think on one show, about 25 couples in Acapulco Bay once, but that was all just for kicks.”
“Mistakes, I know I've made a few. But I'm only human, you've made mistakes, too.”

Source : Song: Ooo Baby Baby, Album: Going to a Go-Go, 2005
“I have always believed the thesis that one's politics and the character of one's intellectual work are inseparable.”

Source : "Prophet Of Privacy". Interview with Steven Levy, www.wired.com. November 1, 1994.
“While in a crowded underground carriage, scream 'It's happening again!”
“If the Constitution is adopted (and it was) the Union will be in fact and in theory an association of States or a Confederacy.”
“It doesn't take billions of dollars or complex medical technologies, and there doesn't have to be a dramatic upending to the current order. It's trying to change the mindset of people who deal with youth to have less judgement and more curiosity. That's asking a lot, emotionally it's asking people to step up and engage more. But what I often heard was that is easier for them to engage emotionally, than to just be angry and judgmental.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com
“"The Anatomy of Terror: From the Death of Bin Laden to the Rise of the Islamic State": I was happy that we finally got him. And a lot of my colleagues and friends that I know who sacrificed so much, some of them their lives, you know, finally can rest, knowing that he's dead.But also, at the same time, I kind of was troubled that we are now not fighting an organization anymore. The terrorists, the threat mutated to a message. Bin Laden accomplished something way bigger. He had a message that was spreading around the Muslim world.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org

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