"To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators."

-- Lewis H. Lapham

#Passion Quotes #Black Quotes #One Day Quotes

“I believe it is customary to get one's washing over first in baths and bask afterwards; personally, I bask first. I have discovered that the first few minutes are the best and not to be wasted-- my brain always seethes with ideas and life suddenly looks much better than did.”
“Man is a moral being.”

Source : Source: www.freepatentsonline.com
“Reality TV, although I'm a part of it, I think reality TV is a terrible thing.”
“Hey, I was raised in the church.”
“I realized that influence was inextricably linked to impactâ€”the more influence you had, the more impact you could create.Â .Â .Â . The ability to make things go viral felt like the closest that we could get to having a human superpower.”

Source : "The Virologist" by Andrew Marantz, www.newyorker.com. January 5, 2015.
“I know of nothing else in medicine that can come close to what a plant-based diet can do. In theory, if everyone were to adopt this, I really believe we can cut health care costs by seventy to eighty percent. That's amazing. And it all comes from understanding nutrition, applying nutrition, and just watching the results.”
“I do think stories are one of the best tools for communicating across any number of cultures. But I also think there are wildly successful leaders who are introverted, disciplined, lead via spreadsheets and goals, and might not "appear" to be a great leader...but in retrospect, made a massive impact.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.”

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