"Prayer is a universal phenomenon in the soul-life of man. It is the soul's reaction to the terrors and joys, the uncertainties and dreams of life."

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Source : Joseph Herman Hertz (1943). “Early and Late: Addresses, Messages, and Papers”, Hindhead, Surrey : The Soncino Press

Joseph Hertz

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“How could you set yourself up as the most powerful institution on earth? You first find out what every man feels at least once a day, establish that as a sin, and set yourself up as the only institution capable of pardoning that sin.”
“Ideology has very little to do with 'consciousness' - it is profoundly unconscious.”
“There are all kinds of friends you make in life... But there's something different about someone who spreads their wings with you.”
“If you have ever seen the movie Night of the Living Dead, you have a rough idea how modern corporations and organizations operate, with projects and proposals that everybody thought were killed constantly rising from their graves to stagger back into meetings and eat the brains of the living.”
“Etiquette-a fancy word for simple kindness.”
“Dig until you hit rock. Then take out that jackhammer and go a little deeper.”
“He didn't believe in a God who sifted through prayers, answering some and ignoring others, no matter how unworthy or worthy a person might be. Instead, he preferred to believe in a God who bestowed all people with gifts and abilities and placed them in an imperfect world; only then was faith tested, only then could faith be earned.”
“I came to see, in my time at IBM, that culture isn't just one aspect of the game; it is the game”

Source : "Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?". Book by Lou Gerstner, 2002.

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