"By comparing what we know today with what the ancients appear to have known we can guess at the kinds of wine they drank."

-- Alec Waugh

#Wine Quotes #Today Quotes #Kind Quotes

“One of the tax systems in the US is for wage earners. The government takes money from them out of each paycheck - so it knows how much they make, and those workers can't cheat to any significant degree. But the other tax system is for capital. Those with capital get to tell the government what they want to tell. They may get audited, but if their tax returns are of any size the government doesn't have enough of the smart auditors to figure out what's really going on. And there are the rules that allow you to do things like take in money today and pay taxes on it thirty years from now.”
“O, when she's angry, she is keen and shrewd! She was a vixen when she went to school; And though she be but little, she is fierce.”
“John Kerry keeping a low profile this week. He said he wanted to get away and go someplace where no one would expect to see him. So I guess he showed up at his old seat in the Senate. Nobody's going to look for him there.”
“It takes a Motherâ€™s Love to make a house a home, a place to be remembered, no matter where we roam.”
“You're better off betting on a horse than betting on a man. A horse may not be able to hold you tight, but he doesn't wanna wander from the stable at night.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Brevity is the soul of command. Too much talking suggests desperation on the part of the leader. Speak shortly, decisively and to the pointâ€“and couch your desires in such natural logic that no one can raise objections. Then move on.”
“We can know ourselves only because we can remember.”

Source : John J. Ratey, M.D. (2001). “A User's Guide to the Brain: Perception, Attention, and the Four Theatres of the Brain”, p.185, Vintage
“Kingsley did the same, except he also removed his T-shirt, showing off his broad chest, tan and smooth. When had Kingsley had time to work on his tan? Mimi wondered.”

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