"A soul you say? Give my pocketwatch to a savage and he'll think it has a soul."

-- Napoleon Bonaparte

#Thinking Quotes #Giving Quotes #Soul Quotes

“I couldn't live my reputation down - all right then, I'd live up to it.”
“The American conception of advertising is to arouse desires and stimulate wants, to make people dissatisfied with the old and out-of-date and by constant iteration to send them out to work harder to get the latest model-whether that model be an icebox or a rug or a new home.”
“Do not be like the cat who wanted a fish but was afraid to get his paws wet.”
“Some decisions are hard, some are easy, but either way it's our choices that matter. Who we chose to align with. What we choose to give in to. What we choose to resist. And most of all, who we choose to be. Because it is always our choice.”
“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.
“Women critics are amazons in climax.”
“I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there.”
“Many friends have expressed concern that a religious fanatic will try to kill me when I go to Africa. After all, Iâ€™ll be speaking out against a crime many fundamentalists consider a holy practice. Iâ€™m sure my work will be dangerous, and I admit to being scaredâ€¦. But my faith tells me to be strong, that God led me down this path for a reason. He has work for me to do. This is my mission. And I believe that long before the day I was born, God chose the day I will die, so I canâ€™t change that. In the meantime, I might as well take a chance, because thatâ€™s what Iâ€™ve done all my life.”

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