"Few are born bold. Even Napoleon had to cultivate the habit on the battlefield, where he knew it was a matter of life and death. In social settings he was awkward and timid, but he overcame this and practice boldness in every part of his life because he saw its tremendous power, how it could literally enlarge a man(even one who, like Napoleon, was in fact conspicuously small)."

-- Robert Greene

#Men Quotes #Practice Quotes #Life And Death Quotes

“By selling directly to customers, real women, the brand is able to avoid significant retail mark-ups that typically exist in high end fashion.”
“A people's literature is the great text-book for real knowledge of them.”

Source : Edith Hamilton (1957). “The Roman Way to Western Civilization”
“Alexander the Great, who said on his wedding night, It's only a nickname. Never got a dinner!”
“I used to be embarrassed by my mom, but now I know what she is-she's a hero.”
“You ever noticed how people who believe in Creationism look really un-evolved? You ever noticed that? Eyes real close together, eyebrow ridges, big furry hands and feet. "I believe God created me in one day". Yeah, looks like He rushed it”
“I love art, my mother is a painter, I majored in art history at Wellesley, and as I was having my second child I was thinking, what am I going to do, I have to do something to keep myself sane, and I began to ask myself, what are the most horrific circumstances under which art can be created?”
“People have been modeling their lives after films for years, but the medium is somehow unsuited to moral lessons, cautionary tales or polemics of any kind.”
“It takes no effort to be ordinary. Ordinary is not even a challenge. You can do nothing and be ordinary.”

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