"Whether wine is a nourishment, medicine or poison is a matter of dosage"

-- Paracelsus

#Wine Quotes #Medicine Quotes #Matter Quotes

“So many people of my generation all grew up with that shock theater package on television of 'Frankenstein,' 'Wolfman,' 'Dracula,' 'Mummy,' all the Universal stuff.”
“I don't know if people know this but I am pretty good at chess. I was always on the chess team at school when I was younger.”
“The thing that makes us know that this "latter rain" that is flooding the world with the glory of God is of the Lord, is because the devil is not in such business.”
“Habits, scientists say, emerge because the brain is constantly looking for ways to save effort.”

Source : "The Power of Habit". Book by Charles Duhigg, February 28, 2012.
“Only what I'm not giving is what is lacking in any situation”
“Contrast 1968, when the CEO of General Motors took home, in pay and benefits, about sixty-six times the amount paid to a typical GM worker. Today the CEO of Wal-Mart earns nine hundred times the wages of his average employee. Indeed, the wealth of the Wal-Mart founder's family in 2005 was estimated at about the same ($90 billion) as that of the bottom 40% of the US population: 120 million people.”

Source : Tony Judt (2010). “Ill Fares the Land”, p.16, Penguin
“One can reach the gates of hell just as easily by short steps as by large.”

Source : Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child (2002). “The Cabinet of Curiosities: A Novel”, p.395, Hachette UK
“Literacy is the most basic currency of the knowledge economy.”

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