James A. McDougall famous quotes

Do you remember any great poet that ever illustrated the higher fields of humanity that did not dignify the use of wine from Homer on down?
-- James A. McDougall

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One of the penalties of being president of the United States is that you must subsist for four years without drinking anything except Californian wine.

It's true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

Taking our stand on the immovable rock of Christ's character we risk nothing in saying that the wine of miracle answered to the wine of nature, and was not intoxicating. No counter proof can equal the force of that drawn from His attributes. It is an indecency and a calumny to impute to Christ conduct which requires apology.

The cheapness of wine seems to be a cause, not of drunkenness, but of sobriety. ...People are seldom guilty of excess in what is their daily fare... On the contrary, in the countries which, either from excessive heat or cold, produce no grapes, and where wine consequently is dear and a rarity, drunkenness is a common vice.

The Asian airlines have the best wine programs.

It's true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative side is offset by advances in technology and cultural exchanges.

Do not look down upon any Muslim, for even the most inferior believer is great in the eyes of God.

Corporation 2020 is an indispensable contribution to the global transformation of finance and corporations as humanity re-integrates centuries of knowledge and continues its inevitable transition from the first Industrial Era... Pavan Sukhdev is a powerful standard-bearer leading us to the cleaner, knowledge-rich Green Economy globally, and this book provides a benchmark and guide to this better future for humanity.

We will not be silent. We will not obey. We will not allow our government to destroy our humanity.

My view is when you use violence on your people, that never ends well.