"Now let you and me buy wine today! Why say we have not the price? My horse spotted with five flowers, My fur-coat worth a thousand pieces of gold, These I will take out, and call my boy To barter them for sweet wine. And with you twain, let me forget The sorrow of ten thousand ages!"

-- Li Bai

#Sweet Quotes #Horse Quotes #Flower Quotes

“Instead of criticizing, find out how to help.”
“Being successful is about professionalism, and chewing gum is unprofessional. Its also a huge pet peeve of mine.”
“I see interracial couples all the time in Nashville. I'm a Jew in Nashville. I'm a gay person in Nashville. It's a non-issue in most of the time. That's a huge leap forward.”

Source : "Janis Ian's Controversial 'Society's Child'". Interview with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. March 2, 2009.
“The high-school English teacher will be fulfilling his responsibility if he furnishes the student a guided opportunity, through the best writing of the past, to come, in time, to an understanding of the best writing of the present. He will teach literature, not social studies or little lessons in democracy or the customs of many lands. And if the student finds that this is not to his taste? Well, that is regrettable. Most regrettable. His taste should not be consulted; it is being formed.”
“Lift up our eyes to you? no, God, we stare and stare, upon a nearer thing that greets us here, Death, violent and near.”
“I don't think anyone sets out to do something bad, it's just that it's very difficult.”
“It's so easy to get caught up in your own experiences. They can seem so important. But there are billions and billions of other experiences going on.”
“An error can never become true however many times you repeat it. The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it.”

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